[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912) › v1.c3.s16.4 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s16.4 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s16.4 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s16.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s16.4) Jangida is the name of a healing plant mentioned in the hymns of the Atharvaveda.¹ It was used as an amulet against the diseases, or symptoms of disease, Takman, Balāsa, Āśarīka, Viśarīka, Pṛṣtyāmaya,² fevers and rheumatic pains, Viṣkandha and Saṃskandha,³ Jambha, and so on. But it is also regarded as a specific against all diseases, and as the best of healing powers.⁴ It is said to be produced from the juices (\*rasa\*) of ploughing (\*kṛṣi\*),⁵ but this need only mean that it grew in cultivated land, not that it was itself cultivated. What plant the name designates is quite uncertain, for it disappears in the later literature. Caland⁶ takes it in the Kauśika Sūtra to be the \*Terminalia arjuneya\*. - [Previous: v1.c3.s16.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s16.3) - [Next: v1.c3.s16.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s16.5) - [Up: v1.c3.s16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s16) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s16.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s16.4) · Pramāṇa