Abhishangajvara, Abhiṣaṅgajvara, Abhishanga-jvara: 3 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Abhiṣaṅgajvara can be transliterated into English as Abhisangajvara or Abhishangajvara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAbhiṣaṅgajvara (अभिषङ्गज्वर).—fever caused by the action of evil spirits.
Derivable forms: abhiṣaṅgajvaraḥ (अभिषङ्गज्वरः).
Abhiṣaṅgajvara is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms abhiṣaṅga and jvara (ज्वर).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryAbhiṣaṅgajvara (अभिषङ्गज्वर):—[=abhi-ṣaṅga-jvara] [from abhi-ṣaṅga > abhi-ṣañj] m. a fever supposed to be caused by evil spirits.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryAbhiṣaṅgajvara (अभिषङ्गज्वर):—[tatpurusha compound] m.
(-raḥ) (In Medicine.) A kind of fever supposed to be produced by evil spirits; its symptoms are, according to Suśruta, alternate agitation, trembling, laughing and crying, and, according to others, moreover, loss of bashfulness, of consciousness and of sleep; this kind of fever belongs to the class of the ‘accidental fevers’ (see āgantu) and is called also bhūtāveśajvara. E. abhiṣaṅga and jvara.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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