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49 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK II. -ii. 8<br />

121. 3 a, b. Ppp. has for c, d suksetriyasya muiicatam sarhgranthya hrdayasya ca.<br />

|_" Their [the two stars'] healing virtue would doubtless be connected with the meteorological<br />

conditions of the time at which their heliacal rising takes place." — Suryasiddhanta.<br />

I.e., p. 337.<br />

2. Let this night fade away {apa-vas); let the bewitchers (f., abhikrtvan)<br />

fade away ;<br />

away.<br />

let the ksetriyd-QS.diC'mg {-ndgana) plant fade the ksetriyd<br />

The night at time of dawn is meant, says the comm. (doubtless correctly). He<br />

gives two renderings of abhikrtvarls : one, from root kr, abhito roga^dntim kurvanSk,<br />

the other from krt ' cut,' kartanaqilah piqacyah. According to Kau^. the hymn accompanies<br />

a dousing with prepared water outside the house (J bahis) ; with this verse it is<br />

to be done at the end of the night.<br />

3. With the straw of the brown, whitish-jointed barley for thee, with<br />

the sesame-stalk (.' -pinjl) of sesame, let the ksetriyd-&^2L

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