[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.s17.33 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s17.33 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s17.33 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s17.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s17.33) The disease is said to arise when Agni enters the waters.²² From this Weber²³ deduced that it was considered to be the result of a chill supervening on heat, or the influence of heat on marshy land. Grohmann²⁴ preferred to see in this connexion of the origin of the disease with Agni’s entering the waters²⁵ an allusion to the fact that fever arises in the rainy season, the time when Agni, as lightning, descends to earth with the rain. Zimmer,²⁶ who accepts this view, further refers to the prevalence of fever in the Terai, and interprets \*vanya\*, an epithet of fever found in the Atharvaveda,²⁷ as meaning ‘sprung from the forest,’ pointing out that fever is mentioned as prevalent among the Mūjavants and Mahāvṛṣas, two mountain tribes of the western Himālaya.²⁸ There is no trace of fever having been observed to be caused by the bite of the \*anopheles\* mosquito, which breeds in stagnant water : this theory has without reason been held to be known to classical Indian medicine.²⁹ - [Previous: v1.c3.s17.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s17.32) - [Next: v1.c3.s17.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s17.34) - [Up: v1.c3.s17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s17) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s17.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s17.33) · Pramāṇa