The word jaapyam is used in the sense of delay, lethargy etc. 

S'ani , also called as manda = the slow one, is believed to cause slowness through his astrological effects. 

śanidṛṣṭau tu jāpyatā is matching with that understanding. 

But jāpyatā nāma kutsito roga is intriguing. 



On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:42 PM, Martin Gansten via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
I once again turn to the vaidyavids on this list in hope of enlightenment. Balabhadra in his 17th-century Hāyanaratna writes of an astrological configuration:

atra tejaḥsiṃhena samarasiṃhena ca śanidṛṣṭiṃ vinā rūkṣādirogāḥ proktāḥ | śanidṛṣṭau tu jāpyatā nāma kutsito roga uktaḥ |

'On this [matter], Tejaḥsiṃha and Samarasiṃha state that [even] without the aspect of Saturn, there are diseases such as dryness, but if Saturn aspects, there is said to be the vile disease called jāpyatā.'

Does anyone know what condition this might be? I have so far found only one other occurrence of jāpyatā, in Varāhamihira's Yogayātrā (10.57), which is not very illuminating:

dakṣiṇe śubham atīva śobhanaṃ pāpam apy ativirūpam anyataḥ |
jāpyatā bhavati tadviparyaye vistaro 'nyamunibhiḥ prakīrtitaḥ ||

The alternative word division jāpyatānām akutsito seems likewise unpromising.

Martin Gansten


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