विषाणका (viSANakA)
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Vedic Reference
EnglishViṣāṇakā is the name of a plant in the Atharvaveda.^1 Bloom-
field, ^2 however, thinks that the word may merely mean ‘horn.’
It is used as a remedy against the disease Vātīkāra.^3 That
disease is of doubtful character: Zimmer^4 thinks that it is one
‘caused by wounds, ’ comparing the adjective a-vāta, ‘uninjured, ’
in the Rigveda, ^5 but Bloomfield^6 shows that ‘wind’ in the
body is meant as causing the disease.
1) vi. 44, 3. Cf. Viṣāṇikā in Wise,
Hindu System of Medicine, 146, perhaps the
Asclepias geminata
Bloomfield, American
Journal of Philology, 12, 426
Zimmer,
Altindisches Leben, 68. But cf. Whit-
ney. Translation of the Atharvaveda,
313.
2) Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 482.
3) Av. ix. 8, 20
Vātī-kṛta, vi. 44, 3
109, 3.
4) Op. cit., 389. 390.
5) vi. 16, 20
ix. 96, 8.
6) Op. cit., 481 et seq., 516.
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