India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s7.20
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s7.20
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(7) *Pāman* (V.2.100), a skin disease. It occurs in the *Atharvaveda* as the name of a skin disease (V.22.12). According to Keith the derivative adjective, *Pāmana* 'suffering from skin disease' is found in the later *Saṁhitās* and the *Brāhmaṇas* (*Vedic Index*, I.517).