India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s7.14
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s7.14
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c8.s7.14
(3) *Āsrāva* (III.1.141), discharge. It is a disease mentioned in the *Atharvaveda*, the precise nature of which is uncertain. Sāyaṇa translated it as painful urination (*mūtr-āti-sāra*, *Atharva*, I.2.4) Lanmann takes it as diabetes and Bloomfield as diarrhoea (*Vedic Index*, I.74).