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विद्रध (vidradha)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
विद्रध॑ mf(आ)n. (of doubtful origin and meaning),
RV.
 iv, 32, 23 (Nir.
=
 विद्ध
Durga
=
 विकुषिताधो-भाग,
Sāy.
=
 वि-दृढ
others
=
 undressed, naked,
fr.
 वि
+
 द्रध
=
 द्रधस्)
विद्रध॑
m.
 a kind of disease (= वि-द्रधि),
AV.
Monier Williams 1872
English
विद्रध, अस्, आ, अम् (probably connected with
rt. व्यध्), Ved. divided, (according to Yāska =
विद्ध, according to Durga = विकुषिताधोभाग
see Nirukta IV. 15.)
Vedic Reference
English
Vidradha denotes a disease, ‘abscesses, ’ in the Atharvaveda.^1
According to Zimmer, ^2 it was a symptom accompanying
Yakṣma. Later it is called Vidradhi. Ludwig^3 compares the
obscure Vidradha of the Rigveda, ^4 where, however, the sense of
the word is very uncertain.^5
1) vi. 127, 1
ix. 8, 20.
2) Altindisches Leben, 386.
3) Translation of the Rigveda, 5, 93.
Cf. Roth, Nirukta, Erläuterungen, 42, 43.
4) iv. 32, 23.
5) Oldenberg, Ṛgveda-Noten, 1, 295.
Cf. Wise, System of Hindu Medicine,
210
Bloomfield, Hymns of the Atharva-
veda, 531, 602
Atharvaveda, 60
Groh-
mann, Indische Studien, 9, 397
Whitney,
Translation of the Atharvaveda, 376.
Grassman
German
vidradhá, a., vielleicht entkleidet [von ví und dradha = drádhas nach BR, „Gewand“].
-é [N. du. f.] kanīnaké va 〰 {328, 23}.