The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c7.s2.33

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The mythical hero of the Avesta has for its counterpart the Vedic Tritá, but the two personages are not equivalent. Thrita is the third of four mortals who first of all extracted the plants, the jaṅgida (II, 4, 3; X, 35, 5), the plant of Kanva (Kaṇvasya vīrudh, VI, 52, 3); the nitatni (VI, 136, 3) the totality of plants (VIII, 7, 26) and the kuṣṭha (XIX, 39, 5).