[233] Max Müller: Zend-Avesta, 83.
[234] Ordinances of Menu, Trübner’s Oriental Series. Lect. xi. 48-54.
[235] The first fine is the lowest, i.e. two hundred and fifty panas. In the Atharvaveda also physicians are spoken of in disrespectful terms. “Various are the desires of men; the wagoner longs for wood, the doctor for diseases.” A Brahman by the code of Menu was forbidden to follow the profession of a physician, as it was classed amongst those which were most impure.[236] At certain funeral ceremonies the same Code excluded such persons as “physicians, atheists, thieves, spirit drinkers, men with diseased nails or teeth, dancers, etc.”[237]
[236] Elphinstone, Hist. of India, 4th edition, p. 41.
[237] Ordinances of Menu, iii. 150-168.
[238] Baas, Hist. Med., p. 41.
[239] Hunter’s Indian Empire, p. 109.
[240] Asiatic Quarterly Rev., Oct. 1892, p. 290.
[241] Ibid.
[242] Tract vi. p. 125.