Hindu Medicine c7.68

c7.68

Moreover, the herbs are reminded of the ancient semi-divine ancestors of the oldest Brahmin-clans, of the Aṅgirases (17, 24), who were the first to discover their virtues and to use them in magic treatment. The herbs are told that they were familiar even to these priestly supermen, these early inventors of magic, who, by their concentrated power of vision, helped the gods to their seats on high in the struggle between divine and titanic powers for world-supremacy.