Condition
Afflictions are shown by default. Threats and named causes are different kinds of thing and are never presented as diseases.
- demon (rakṣas)ThreatThe non-human hostile being -- rakshas, yatudhana, pishacha -- against whom whole Atharvavedic hymns are directed.160linked passages
- consumption (yakṣma)AfflictionYakṣma: the wasting, consuming sickness that is drawn out of a patient limb by limb in the Atharvaveda's ejection charms and flies away like a bird. Not fever, which is takman, and not affliction in general, which is amīvā.132linked passages
- witchcraft (kṛtyā)ThreatWitchcraft as a thing done to a person: the hostile spell, its maker, and the counter-charm that turns it back on him.65linked passages
- poison (viṣa)Named cause or agentPoison as a substance in the body, whether from a snake, an insect, a plant or a poisoned arrow, and the thing charms declare to be sapless.63linked passages
- fever (takman)AfflictionTakman, the Atharvaveda's fever: addressed in the second person, classified by its period (tertian, quartan, constant), by its season (autumnal, cold, hot, of the rainy season) and by its colour, and sent away to named foreign peoples. It has its own hymns -- AVS 1.25, 5.22, 6.20 -- and occurs nowhere outside the Atharvaveda.33linked passages
- affliction (amīvā)AfflictionAmīvā: sickness in general, the affliction a god is asked to smite or expel rather than a named complaint. The one member of this group that is a four-Veda word -- Soma, Brahmaṇaspati and Vāstoṣpati are each called amīvahán, "slayer of amīvā".32linked passages
- the malevolent (durhārd)ThreatThe evil-hearted: the hostile person as the Atharvaveda's charms treat him -- an affliction to be warded off, burnt against by darbha grass, gored by Agni's horns, and kept from a bride. All 26 token occurrences are Atharvavedic.26linked passages
- worms (krimi)Named cause or agentWorms and internal vermin, addressed as living enemies to be crushed and named by colour and habitat in the Atharvaveda's worm hymns.25linked passages
- evil dream (duṣvapnya)AfflictionThe evil dream, treated as an affliction with an owner: it is dispatched to an enemy rather than merely dispelled.22linked passages
- hereditary disease (kṣetriya)AfflictionThe inherited or field-borne affliction, a disease category with no counterpart outside the Atharvaveda.22linked passages
- imprecation (abhiśasti)ThreatImprecation and calumny, and the epithet abhiśastipā́ "protector against imprecation" that names it. Unlike the rest of this group it is not Atharvavedic property: 10 of its 18 token occurrences are Rigvedic or Yajurvedic.18linked passages
- bodily hurt (rapas)AfflictionRapas: bodily hurt, blemish and defect -- the thing the wind is asked to blow away at AVS 4.13 and the thing Rudra is asked to carry one over at RV 2.33. Distinct from the root rap- "to prate", which is the same string in four other forms.18linked passages
- ill-named beings (durṇāman)ThreatThe durnaman, "the ill-named": a class of noxious beings blamed for attacks on pregnant women and infants, distinct from the rakshas of the demon hymns.17linked passages
- seizure (grāhi)AfflictionGrahi, the Seizer: a seizing sickness personified as a female power whose fetters a patient is released from.15linked passages
- malignant sprite (arāya)ThreatThe arāyá: a noxious sprite blamed for wasting a person and for attacks on a woman, smitten away by a herb or an amulet. Whitney renders it variously "niggard", "sorceress" and "wizard (? arā́ya-)", which is recorded here because the inconsistency is his and not this file's.14linked passages
- balasa (balāsa)AfflictionA named Atharvavedic sickness of the joints and limbs, left untranslated here because the corpus describes its treatment and not its symptoms.12linked passages
- curse (śapatha)ThreatThe spoken curse -- a rival's, a sister's, a priest's in fury -- sent back to the curser rather than cured, and the thing an amulet or a herb is said to keep off.12linked passages
- viskandha (viṣkandha)AfflictionA named Atharvavedic affliction warded off by amulets, chiefly the jangida and the thousand-powered amulet; left untranslated for the same reason as balasa.11linked passages
- apacit swellings (apacit)AfflictionThe apacíts: swellings counted off in fives, sevens and nines over the nape, neck, shoulders and sides, and told to fly away like a bird from its nest. Left untranslated beyond "swellings" because the corpus gives their sites and their colours and not their nature.7linked passages
- cough (kāsa)AfflictionCough, listed among the ailments to be sent flying away from a patient's joints.7linked passages
- jaundice (hariman)AfflictionThe yellow sickness, treated by transferring the patient's yellowness to yellow birds and taking the red of a bull in exchange.6linked passages
- debility (sedi)AfflictionSedí, debility or failure: housed in an enemy's dwelling with the hags, wished onto an opposing army beside hunger and fear, and trodden down underfoot by the ploughman. Every token occurrence is Atharvavedic.5linked passages
- headache (śīrṣakti)AfflictionHead-pain, in the two words the corpus uses for it: śīrṣakti the ache and śīrṣāmaya the head-ailment, both expelled by incantation at AVS 9.8.1 and both wiped off onto lead and onto a pillow at AVS 12.2.5linked passages
- flux (āsrāva)AfflictionA flowing or discharging complaint, named in the Atharvaveda beside the plants and reeds used to stanch it.4linked passages
- jayanya (jāyānya)AfflictionJāyānya, a winged sickness that "flies and enters into a man", crushes the breast-bone and descends to the sole; named beside jaundice and visalpaka as something the ointment drives out. Untranslated for the same reason as balasa.4linked passages
- leprous spot (kilāsa)AfflictionThe white or pale skin patch, treated by a night-born dark herb told to give the skin back its own colour; the corpus distinguishes the bone-born from the body-born kind and from the kind "made by the spoiler".4linked passages
- visalpaka (visalpaka)AfflictionA named Atharvavedic ailment of the limbs, ears and eyes, ejected together with the abscess and the heart-disease; left untranslated because the corpus gives its sites and its remedy and not its nature.4linked passages
- abscess (vidradha)AfflictionThe vidradhá, an internal swelling or abscess, named with the red balāsa and the visalpaka as things a forest tree and a herb are told not to leave a bit of.3linked passages
- sorcerous attack (abhicāra)ThreatSorcery directed at a person, named in the two Atharvavedic verses where the apāmārga plant spoils it and the varaṇá tree shields against it.2linked passages
- limb-splitting (aṅgabheda)AfflictionThe limb-splitter, paired in both its occurrences with the limb-waster and with heart-ache, in the two charms that expel head-disease by incantation.2linked passages
- heart-burn (hṛddyota)AfflictionBurning of the heart, sent up to the sun together with yellowness in the jaundice hymn, and the thing the heavenly waters are asked for a remedy for at AVS 6.24.2linked passages
- earache (karṇaśūla)AfflictionEar-pain, named twice in the head-disease charm of AVS 9.8 and nowhere else in the four Saṃhitās.2linked passages
- bruise (kṣipta)AfflictionWhat is struck or bruised, named at AVS 6.109 only inside the compound that says the pippalī berry is its remedy, and once in the genitive beside the wind-ailment.2linked passages
- pallor (palita)AfflictionWhat is pale, named twice in the kilasa hymn beside the leprous spot and removed by the same herb. Kept apart from palitá "hoary" said of a man, which is the same string and a different thing.2linked passages
- wind-caused ailment (vātīkṛta)AfflictionThe vātī́kṛta, "made by wind": an ailment named only in the two compounds the corpus prints for its remedies -- the viṣāṇakā herb that effaces it and the pippalī that is a remedy for it.2linked passages
- madness (unmāda)AfflictionBeing crazed, in the one Atharvavedic verse that names it: crazed from sin against the gods or crazed from a demon, with the speaker declaring he knows the remedy.1linked passages
How this list was scoped3
kind=ANY: these rows mix AFFLICTION (26), THREAT (8) and PATHOGEN_OR_CAUSE (2). Read `kind` on each row before calling any of them a disease.
measuredCORRECTED IN V3.2: this query asked an affliction question and answered it with demons. Of the 718 MENTIONS_ENTITY edges reaching a Condition, 314 reached a THREAT and 88 a PATHOGEN_OR_CAUSE, so rakshas, sorcery, curses, worms and poison were all ranking as diseases. The 8 THREAT and 2 PATHOGEN_OR_CAUSE conditions are now excluded here by `condition_kind` and remain reachable through passages_protecting_against and condition_neighbourhood, both of which stay deliberately broad. Naming an affliction is weaker than treating it. CORRECTED IN V3.1: this caveat read 'There is deliberately no separate fever entity: takman- forms sit in YAKSMA-DISEASE'. That is no longer true -- VG:CONCEPT:TAKMAN-FEVER exists and carries 33 mentions -- so the caveat was denying the existence of an entity the same database returns. The reason it originally gave still matters, and is now a live hazard rather than a settled policy: the takman- paradigm is split across two entities, so a query filtering on either alone undercounts fever. Read TAKMAN-FEVER and YAKSMA-DISEASE together, and treat the split as unmeasured until someone reconciles the paradigm.
conditions_treated`passage_count` counts DISTINCT passages reaching the object through the lexical, conceptual and ritual predicates this surface counts, and is the same figure the detail view reports. It is NULL, never 0, where no passage reaches it: the mention layer's measured recall is 0.8857, so a null is a lower bound and not an assertion that the corpus is silent.
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