The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c7.s2.159

c7.s2.159

⁷ In the *Atharvaveda*, XIX, 27, 2, the epithet *Vṛtrahan* is even juxtaposed to the name of Vāta but it is related rather to that of Candra which precedes him. In any case, the passage shows once again the wind grouped with the *vṛtrahan* divinities.—B. Geiger, *Amaša Spənta’s*, Gottingen, 1927, p. 144, has recognised an Indo-Iranian trait in the ‘conqueror’ character of the god of Wind; Mr. Lommel *Die Yasts des Avesta*, this trait. For him the Vedic Vāta would have been too late a personification to have been an Indo-Iranian divinity, but in order to