The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.64

c8.64

² *AV.*, VIII, 7, 3. The preceding verse invokes the plants against the “evil sent by the gods”...*yákṣmād devéṣitād*...It is precisely the disorder of sin because such an evil has passed from the gods to human beings by the intermediary of *Tṛta* (cf., *supra*, p. 36).