The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.140

c8.140

¹ *AV.*, V, 22-13: *tṛtīyakam vitṛtīyam sadamdīm utá śāradám|* *takmānam śítam rūráṃ graīṣmam nāśaya vārṣikam||* *vitṛtīyā* has received several conjectural interpretations; the simplest one sees in it the fever, opposite to the *tṛtīyaka* (i.e., which is simultaneously the daily and the *tṛtīyaka*); this interpretation here is quite natural, where the exorcism looks like a complete list of fevers in which the daily and the *tṛtīyaka* have been mentioned in abridged form.