Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.393

v1.c3.393

Apa-cit.—This word occurs several times in the Atharvaveda.¹ It is held by Roth,² Zimmer,³ and others to denote an insect whose sting produced swellings, etc. (*glau*). But Bloomfield⁴ shows that the disease, scrofulous swellings, is what is really meant, as is shown by the rendering (*gaṇḍa-mālā*, ‘inflammation of the glands of the neck’) of Keśava and Sāyaṇa, and by the parallelism of the later disease, *apacī*, the derivation being from *apa* and *ci*, ‘to pick off.’