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² The richest selection of passages of the Veda concerning the medical role of the gods is found in G. N. Mukhopādhyāya, *History of Indian Medicine*, Vol. I, Calcutta, 1923 (cf., *JA*, July-Dec., 1933, fasc. annexe, pp. 102 ff). The most typical of these passages had already been studied occasionally by Bergaigne in his *Rel. véd*. to which a reference can be made. The work of Mukhopādhyāya is interesting for having published the therapeutic formulae which in the medical texts are ascribed to the gods. Reference may be made to it once for all. See also Reinhold F. G. Muller, *Die Medizen im Rgveda* in *Asia Major*, Vol. VI, 1930. But this last follows the system of arbitrary interpretations of Hertel.