The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c7.s2.55
The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c7.s2.55
- Language
- English
c7.s2.55
¹ For pairikās, Darmesteter had once suggested an entirely forced etymology, tending to relate this name to the vedic apsaras or apsarā (Ormazd et Ahr., p. 177, note 2) because he had by means of an equally forced comparison, identified the pairikās, ancestors of the peris, the fairies of Iran with the apsaras of India.