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³ On this subject one may also see the remarks of Darmesteter *Haurvatāt & Ameretāt*, Paris, 1875, p. 53, note which shows that Manu, father of men, has also, as described in the Vedas, obtained several remedies. But this is only a vague analogy with the personage of Thrita (Moreover Darmesteter does not insist on this point) and the details on either side do not agree. The same author (p. 55, n. 2), makes a just *rapprochement* between the epithet *vispobis* ‘of all the remedies’, applied to the tree of Vourukasa (*Yast*, XII, 17) and the Vedic epithet having the same sense, *viśvábheṣaja*. In the Rg-veda, it does not qualify a tree but the wind (X, 137, 3) or the waters (I, 23, 20 & cf. X, 137, 6 where the same idea is expressed in a different manner), once even the hand of a singer (X, 60, 12), but in the Atharvaveda it is applied most of the time to