[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) › v2.c4.s7.1403 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s7.1403 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s7.1403 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c4.s7.1403](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.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. - [Previous: v2.c4.s7.1402](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s7.1402) - [Next: v2.c4.s7.1404](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s7.1404) - [Up: v2.c4.s7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s7.1403](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s7.1403) · Pramāṇa