The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.86

c8.86

that of the full Moon, one should probably see in the myth of Soma and his wives indicated immediately afterwards, the transposition of a religious interdiction. In any case, the myth in question does not agree with the one which is given a little earlier in the same text; this shows that this text is based on a complicated past of ritual and mythical speculations.