The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c7.s2.119

c7.s2.119

¹ It is not specified that they are horses. Elsewhere (I, 186, 5) it is a case of male (*vṛṣan*) fast ones of Apām Napāt: Bergaigne has, without hesitation, admitted that horses are meant (*Rel. véd.* II, p. 18); Geldner has translated it as “bulls” although he has suggested in a note the word “stallion” with a question mark and has referred to VI, 29, 2, where *vṛṣan* is juxtaposed with *aśva*. ‘horse’. The *rapprochement* with the Avesta seems to settle the question.