The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c7.s2.196

c7.s2.196

concerning the probability of current contacts between India and Iran during the centuries around the beginning of the Christian era, may be applied here. The Iranians and the Indians do not have only a common heritage from the prehistoric times, they also have in common a number of ideas which they have shared because of prolonged cultural relations and it is precisely each time the ideas were in accord with the old traditional notions held in common that the two peoples could have easily accepted together the later developments which had been given them separately.