[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.s17.44 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s17.44 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s17.44 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s17.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s17.44) It is perhaps significant that the Takman does not appear until the Atharvaveda. It is quite possible that the Vedic Āryans, when first settled in India, did not know the disease, which would take some generations to become endemic and recognized as dangerous. What remedies they used against it is quite uncertain, for the Atharvaveda mentions only spells and the Kuṣṭha, which can hardly have been an effective remedy, though still used in later times. Fever must, even in the Atharvan period, have claimed many victims, or it would not be mentioned so prominently. - [Previous: v1.c3.s17.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s17.43) - [Next: v1.c3.s17.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s17.45) - [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.s17.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s17.44) · Pramāṇa