The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c7.s2.123
The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c7.s2.123
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later in the name of the cosmic mountain, al-Borj.¹ Although the same may not be the case with this last detail elsewhere, it is clear that the concordance between the Vedic and the Avestan ideas regarding the association of the waters and of fire in nature, supposes the existence, from the Indo-Iranian period itself, of concepts which were absolutely apt to have served as the starting points for the later speculation of Indian physiologists concerning the presence of the organism of the fire in the form of a liquid.