The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c7.s2.126

c7.s2.126

The Vedic wind is called *Vāyu* or *Vāta*, the former being specially that of the wind-god, the latter that of the element-wind, although this specialisation of sense is not absolute.² The Avestan wind is also *Vāyu* (alias *Vaya*) or *Vāta*, with a tendency to the same distribution of sense as in the Vedic. This tendency has been kept intact till the Pehlavi where *Vāi* derived from *Vāyu* is rather the god or the spirit and *Vāt* (from *Vāta*) is the wind or the air.³