The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c15.93

c15.93

First of all, we are sure that this system was current during the Achaemenid period and in their empire itself, as one of the tablets of the manual is dated in the eleventh year of Artaxerxes. It is also certain that parts of Greek and Indian lands, both under the Achaemenids, intercommunicated across this empire for the despatch of medicines and medical notions of India to Greek lands. This is all the more reason why the communications of both with Mesopotamia, situated in the middle of the distance separating the two, was easy.