pitta

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Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

n. (etym. unknown) bile, the bilious humour (one of the three humours [ cf. kapha and vāyu ] or that secreted between the stomach and bowels and flowing through the liver and permeating spleen, heart, eyes, and skin; its chief quality is heat) AV.; &c &c... n. a kind of leprosy Gal. 079549 627,1 124197 (or ṣa) m. the gall-bladder MW. 079550 627,1 124198 m. excess and disturbance of the bilious humour ib. 079551...

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