ABSTRACT
1. According to modern English dictionaries, contagion in a medical context refers to the transference of disease 1 by contact. When we seek to examine the notions pertaining to such contagion in ancient India, it seems to stand to reason that we should expect relevant information to be present especially in texts dealing for the most part with matters of a medical nature, i.e., Āyurvedic texts. When we however turn to such texts, we discover to our surprise that contagion seems to play only a minor role in them.
