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)
Release him from this wasting disease, from this affliction.
Balāsa“disease”3 mentions
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
Fly forth from here, O balāsa, like a fine-winged bird from its nest;
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 guilt made by another or made by yourself you have incurred — from that may all beings 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)
The arrow is the mother of viśara and its spreading;
Wasting disease“Yakṣma”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
The disease that overcame you as you were born from your mother or from your father — 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.
From limb to limb, do you put down the disease away from her.
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.
I drive away disease.
Rigveda
Bodily affliction that the healing hymns repeatedly ask the gods to carry away.
Let them carry off whatever disease there is;
Let them carry off whatever disease there is;
Let them carry off whatever disease there is;