जायान्य

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Monier-Williams

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

जायान्य m. a kind of disease AV. vii , 76 , 3ff. ; xix , 44 , 2

जायान्य m. ( जायेन्यTS. ii , 3 and 5 , )

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पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

Jāyānya, Jāyenya, are variant forms of the name of a disease mentioned in the Atharvaveda and the Taittirīya Saṃhitā. In one passage of the former text it is mentioned with jaundice (harimā) and pains in the limbs (aṅga-bhedo visalpakaḥ). Zimmer thinks these are its symptoms, and identifies it with a kind of Yakṣma, or disease of the lungs. Bloomfield prefers to identify it with syphilis, in accordance with certain indications in the ritual of the Kauśika Sūtra. Roth conjectures ‘gout,’ but Whitney leaves the nature of the disease doubtful.