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    Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 43.
    alají f. a cert. disease of the eye.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 94, col. 1.
    alají f. inflammation of the eye (at the edge of the cornea), AV. ix, 8, 20.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 117, col. 1.
    alají und alajī f. eine best. Augenkrankheit.

    The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 38.
    Alaji is the name of a disease in the Atharvaveda.1 The later

    alajī denotes an eye-disease — a discharge at the junction of the

    cornea and the sclerotica. [Footnote] 1) ix. 8, 20. Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 390; St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.