हृदयामय (hRdayAmaya)
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EnglishHṛdayāmaya, ‘disease of the heart, ’ is mentioned in the
Atharvaveda in connexion with Yakṣma^1 and with Balāsa.^2
Zimmer, ^3 who thinks that Balāsa is consumption, connects the
name with the later view of the medical Saṃhitās, ^4 that love
is one of the causes of the disease. But it would be more
natural to see in it a disease affecting the heart.
1) v. 30, 9.
2) vi. 14, 1
127, 3.
3) Altindisches Leben, 387.
4) Wise, Hindu System of Medicine, 321, 322.
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