There are some creatures of mild (poison) while others of strong venom. Some are aquatic (living in water), some reptiles snakes and some are insects, but they all are either destructive of life or create burning in the body. The anoint with their poison, we should have fully knowledge about them, so that proper treatment may be resorted to.
कङ्कतो न कङ्कतोऽथो सतीनकङ्कतः। द्वाविति प्लुषी इति न्य१दृष्टा अलिप्सत ॥
– Rigveda Mantra 1.191.1
kankato na kankato.atho satinakankatah
dvaviti plusi iti nyadrsta alipsata
– Rigveda verse 1.191.1
The poisonous as well as the slithering, and the essentially poisonous as well as the slightly poisonous, both bite and burn, and yet they both sprinkle and anoint as antidotes too, and both smear, bite and bum unseen, and they harbour the unseen.
Purport by swami dayanand >
As an unsteady man goes hither and thither, even after getting good teachers and preachers, in the same way some subtle poisonous creatures and insects attack the body, and escape from them sometimes becomes a problem.
