The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.53

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specialised itself in that of verity or justice, but *rtena* is sometimes used in late rituals as an equivalent of *vidhinā*, "according to rules". Moreover, in the Veda, the word alternates with *dharman* which has specialised itself in the sense of "order". Lastly, it is not at all possible to separate *rta* from *rtu* which denotes assuredly real phenomena but chiefly regular ones: the seasons and the menses. Besides if verity was the force which moves the word, it would be nothing but its Law or its Norm.