Disease
idea · 2 works · 20 mentions · 33 anchored passages
yakṣma · balāsa · disease · wasting disease · yakṣma-disease · Yakṣma · affliction · ailment · apacit · consumption
spoken of as
7 expressionsYakṣma“disease”9 mentions
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit) · Rigveda (Sanskrit)
Released is he from yakṣma-disease, from misfortune, from disgrace, from the noose of treachery — and also released from the grip of demonic seizure.
Balāsa“disease”3 mentions
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
The loosening of bones, the loosening of joints, what has seized the heart and made it ill — drive out entirely the balāsa-disease, that which dwells in the limbs and in the joints.
Apacit“disease”2 mentions
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
The nine and the ninety that come together towards the neck — may all of them vanish from here, like the growths of the apacit disease.
Consumption“disease”2 mentions
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit) · Rigveda (Sanskrit)
Whatever consumption-disease was sent by the gods, and whatever was sent by the fathers — from that may all the gods release you from affliction.
Glandular swellings“apacit”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
The swellings that are on the neck, and those that are in the armpits, those swellings that are related, that fall of themselves — those we drive away from here.
Viśara“disease”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
From overeating, from indigestion, from distress, from failure — these engendered the disease viśara;
Wasting disease“Yakṣma”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
The wasting disease that lodges in your heart, that stands in the navel, that penetrates the belly, and that which clings in the extremities — that wasting illness we drive away from you;
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Disease treated as a following, expellable affliction that gods are asked to lead away from the bride and household.
Whatever diseases follow the people and accompany the gleaming bridal procession of the bride — may the gods worthy of sacrifice lead those diseases back to where they came from.
From limb to limb, do you put down the disease away from her.
O wide fish of sweet waters, you guard its passage — free from discharge, free from disease.
Rigveda
Bodily affliction that the healing hymns repeatedly ask the gods to carry away.
Drive away disease, all evil, the unoffered, ill-will, the hard-to-understand, of the malicious one;
Let them carry off whatever disease there is;
Let them carry off whatever disease there is;