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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
How this list was scoped2
CORRECTED 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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