Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.5148

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.5148

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c9.5148

YAKṢMĀ (RĀJAYAKṢMĀ). The disease of consumption (Tuberculosis). There is a story in Mahābhārata which says that this disease was created by Dakṣa Prajāpati. (For more details see under Candra).

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Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit