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आशरीक (AzarIka)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
आशरीक AzarIka
n.
rheumatic pains
Monier Williams Cologne
English
आ॑-शरीक
n.
rheumatic pains,
AV.
xix, 34, 10.
Monier Williams 1872
English
आ-शरीक, अस्, m., Ved., N. of a disease, violent and
acute pain in the limbs.
Vedic Reference
English
Ā-śarīka appears to denote a disease in a hymn of the
Atharvaveda^1 celebrating the powers of the Jaṅgida plant.
Zimmer^2 thinks that it merely denotes the pain in the limbs
accompanying fever. Whitney^3 suggests taking the word as
merely an epithet.
1) xix. 34, 10.
2) Altindisches Leben, 65, 391.
3) Translation of the Atharvaveda,
953. Cf. Bloomfield, Hymns of the
Atharvaveda, 673.