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जायान्य (jAyAnya)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
जाया॑न्य
m.
 a kind of disease,
AV.
 vii, 76, 3 ff.
xix, 44, 2
(accord. to some
=
 ‘syphilis’).
(जाये॑न्य,
TS.
 ii, 3 and 5)
Monier Williams 1872
English
जायान्य जायान्य, अस्, m., Ved. a kind of
disease
[cf. जायेन्य।]
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
जायान्य , vgl. Bloomfield, JAOS 13, CCXIV ff.
Vedic Reference
English
Jāyānya, ^1 Jāyenya, ^2 are variant forms of the name of a
disease mentioned in the Atharvaveda and the Taittirīya Saṃ-
hitā. In one passage of the former text^3 it is mentioned with
jaundice (harimā) and pains in the limbs (aṅga-bhedo visalpakaḥ).
Zimmer^4 thinks these are its symptoms, and identifies it with a
kind of Yakṣma, or disease of the lungs. Bloomfield^5 prefers
to identify it with syphilis, in accordance with certain indica-
tions in the ritual of the Kauśika Sūtra.^6 Roth conjectures
‘gout, ’ but Whitney^7 leaves the nature of the disease doubtful.
1) Av. vii. 76, 3-5
xix. 44, 2.
2) ii. 3, 5, 2
5, 6, 5.
3) xix. 44, 2.
4) Altindisches Leben, 377, following
Wise, Hindu System of Medicint, 321,
describing Akṣata.
5) American Journal of Philology, 11,
320 et seq.
Hymns of the Atharvaveda,
559-561.
6) xxxii. 11. Cf. also the commentary
on Av. vii. 76, and Taittirīya Saṃhitā,
loc. cit.
7) Translation of the Atharvaveda, 442.
Cf. Henry, Lelivre vii de l' Atharvavéda, 98.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
जाये(या)न्य
पु०
 जि--बा० ए (आ) न्यण् । जयशीले । “योहरिमा जायान्योऽङ्गभेदो विशल्यकः” अथ० १९ । ४४ । २ ।तैत्तिरीये तु जायेन्य इति पाठः ।