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अज्ञातयक्ष्म (ajJAtayakSma)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अ-ज्ञात—यक्ष्म॑
m.
 an unknown or hidden disease,
RV.
 x, 161, 1
AV.
Vedic Reference
English
Ajñāta-yakṣma, the ‘unknown sickness, ’ is mentioned in
the Rigveda, ^1 Atharvaveda, ^2 and Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā.^3 It is
referred to in connection with Rājayakṣma. Grohmann^4 thinks
that the two are different forms of disease, hypertrophy and
atrophy, the purpose of the spell in the Rigveda being thus the
removal of all disease. From the Atharvaveda^5 he deduces its
identity with Balāsa. Zimmer, ^6 however, points out that this
conclusion is unjustified, leaving the disease unidentified, which
seems to accord with its name.
1) x. 161, 1 = Av. iii. 11, 1.
2) vi. 127, 3.
3) xiii. 16.
4) Indische Studien, 9, 400.
5) vi. 127. 3.
6) Altindisches Leben, 377, 378.
Cf. Bloomfield. Hymns of the Athar-
vaveda, 342
Atharvaveda, 60
Jolly,
Medicin (in Bühler's Encyclopædia),
89.
Grassman
German
ajñāta-yakṣmá, a., verborgene Krankheit (yákṣma), als Bezeichnung einer gewissen Krankheit.
-ā́t {987, 1}.