Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s7.1403

v2.c4.s7.1403

In the Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā⁹ the man with bad nails and the man with brown teeth are mentioned along with sinners like the Didhiṣūpati. The Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa¹⁰ mentions a ‘white-spotted (śukla), bald-headed man, with projecting teeth (viklidha) and reddish-brown eyes.’ Interesting is Zimmer’s¹¹ suggestion that kirmira found in the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā¹² means ‘spotty’ as an intermixture of races, but it is only a conjecture, apparently based on a supposed connexion of the word with kṛ, ‘mix.’ In the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā¹³ and the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa¹⁴ various epithets are applied to women, some of which seem to denote disease, and in the Atharvaveda¹⁵ the feminine adjectives, ‘antelope-footed’ (*ṛśya-padī*) and ‘bull-toothed’ (*vṛṣa-datī*), probably refer to bodily defects.