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i. 33- BOOK I. THE ATHARVA-VEDA-SAMHITA. 34
3. They of whom the gods in heaven make [their] draught (bliaksd) ;
they that come to be abundantly in the. atmosphere ;
who, of beauteous
color, etc.
etc.
Again TS. MS. have a different c {yah prthivim pAyaso 'itdAnti (ui'ra/i). Our O.
has at end of c virupdh (as TS. MS. in i c). MP. substitutes nivistas for bhavanti
in b. The comm. renders bhaksdm by upabhogyam.
4. With propitious eye behold me, O waters ; with propitious body
touch my skin ; they that are ghee-dripping, clean, purifying — let those
waters be weal, pleasant to us.
The first half-verse appears again belovir as xvi. i. 12. It alone is found in TS. and
MS. ; but our c is RV. vii. 49. 3 c, and the two other texts have it after our 2 a, b
|_all reading madhu- ityc ghrta-\. MP. reads qivdna tva cdksusa pa^anlv apah, and
in b sprqantu and te. AB. (viii. 6. 10) quotes the whole verse in its TS. and MS. version.
Our Bp. K. read -qcytitas in c ; Ppp. has -qcatas. The Anukr, ignores the redundancy
of one syllable (or more) in b.
34. A love-spell : with a sweet herb.
\Atharvan, — pancarcam. niadughamanisuktam. vdnaspatyam. dnustubham.']
Verses i, 2, 5 are found in Paipp. ii., vs. 3 in vi., and vs. 4 in part in viii. It is
used by Kau;. in a ceremony for superiority in disputation (38. 17)
: the ambitious disputant
is to come into the assembly from the north-east, chewing the sweet plant
again, twice in the nuptial ceremonies, once with tying a t/iadugha
amulet on the finger
(76. 8), and once (79. 10) on crushing the amulet at the consummation of the marriage.
The comm. further declares it used at the disputation in the aqvamedka sacrifice ; but
he quotes no authority for it. All these applications are evidently imposed upon the
hymn, not contained in it.
Translated : Weber, iv. 429 ;
Grill, 52, 78 ;
Griffith, i. 38 ; Bloomfield, 99, 274. —
Cf. Hillebrandt, Veda-chrestomathie, p. 46.
1 . This
plant is honey-(;«rt^//«-)born ; with honey we dig thee ; forth
from honey art thou engendered ; LsoJ do thou make us possessed of
honey.
The comm. calls the plant madhuka, and uses that form of the name also in the
quotations from Kaug. (instead of madugha, ntadhugha, etc. ; the mss. vary greatly in
their readings).
2. At the tip of my tongue honey, at the root of my tongue honeyedness
; mayest thou be altogether in my power {krdtii), mayest thou come
unto my intent {cittd).
The second half-verse agrees nearly with that of iii. 25. 5 and vi. 9. 2, in both of
which the ydtha, here unexpressed, helps the
construction (though the accent of Asas
does not absolutely need it, being capable of being viewed as antithetical). Ppp. has
for Sijihvdyd 'gre me tnad/ui, and for c, A yathd iitdiii kdminy aso (our 5 c) yaiii vdcd
mam anvdyasi. The comm. explains madhillakam by tnadhurarasabahula?h jalainadhulakavrksapuspam
yathdj he understands the plant to be addressed in c, d — which
is plainly wrong.