शीर्षक्ति (zIrSakti)

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Capeller Eng

English

 शीर्षक्ति॑ f.
  head-ache
 p.
  °क्तिम॑न्त्.

Monier Williams Cologne

English

 शीर्षक्ति॑ f.
  (prob. for शीर्ष-सक्ति) ‘head-seizure’,  pain in the head,  AV.
  

Monier Williams 1872

English

 शीर्षक्ति,  इस्,  f. (probably fr. शीर् = शीर्ष + सक्ति), 
Ved. a pain or affection in the head.

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Vedic Reference

English

 Śīrṣakti is a common word for ‘headache’ in the Atharva-
veda.^1
1) i. 12,  3
 ix. 8,  1
 xii. 2,  19
 5,  23.
Cf. Bloomfield,  Journal of the American
Oriental Society,  16,  xxxv
 Hymns of the
Atharvaveda,  252
 American Journal of
Philology,  17,  416,  who sees in it śīrṣa-
sakti (cf. Macdonell,  Vedic Grammar, 
64,  2). Böhtlingk,  Proceedings of the
Saxon Academy,  1897,  50,  thinks the
word means ‘a stiff neck,  with head
awry.’ See Lanman in Whitney,  Trans-
lation of the Atharvaveda,  14. In Av.
xix. 39,  10,  śīrṣa-śoka is used for ‘head-
ache.’

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