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155 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK IV. -iv. 7
2. Sapless is the poison of the east, sapless what is of the north ; also
this that is of the south is exchangeable with gruel (karatnbhd).
That is, is no stronger or more harmful than gruel. Except our Bp., which has
adharacy&m, all the mss. accent -racyam, and SPP. follows them; our edition emends
to -racyam, to accord with the two adjectives of like formation in a, b. Ppp. puts
arasam after visarn in a.
3. Having made gruel of sesame (.''), teeming with fat, steaming (.'),
thou dost not rack, O ill-bodied one, him that has eaten thee merely from
hunger.
The verse is full of difficulties and doubtful points. The translation implies in d
emendation oijaksivant sd \.o jaksivansam, as suggested by BR., s.v. rtip (Grill rejects
it, but unwisely) ; Ppp. reads jaksivlpyasya. The construction of the augmentless
aorist-form nlrupas with nd instead of ma is against all rule and usage ; the easiest
emendation would be to na ^rurupasj Ppp. gives nu riirupah. SPP. unaccountably
reads rurupah in pada-\x.\X, both here and in 5 d and 6 d, against all but one of his
pada-mss. in this verse, and also against Prat. iv. 86, which distinctly requires rurupah;
and (in all the three cases alike) the pada-m%%. add after the word the sign which they
are accustomed to use when a pada-rea.d\ng is to be changed to something else in
samhitd. In c, the /a^/a-reading is dustano Ui duhatano ; the case is noted under
Prat. ii. 85. Tirydm in a is rendered as if tilydm, from tila (so the Pet. Lex.) ;
the
comm. derives it from tiras, and renders it tirobhavain vanishing,' which ' is as senseless
as it is etymologically absurd ; Ppp. reads instead turlyam. According to Rajan.
xvi. 23, a sort of rice (as ripening in three months) is called tiriya {tirima ?), but the
word appears to be only a modern one, and is hardly to be looked for here. |_I cannot
find it in the Poona ed.*J Grill makes the very unsatisfactory conjecture atiriyam
" running over." In b, all our mss. (as also the comment on Prat. ii. 62) read plbasphdkdm
(p. pibahophdkdm, which the comment just quoted ratifies), as our edition
reads; SPP., on the other hand, prints plbaspdkdm (comm.. plvaspdkam, explained
as " fat-cooking ") and declares this to be the unanimous reading of his authorities : this
discordance of testimony is quite unexplainable. The translation implies emendation of
the pada-Tts-Aing to pibahosphdkdm. Ppp. reads uddhrtain for the problematic uddrathim
; but the latter is supported by RV. i. 187. 10 (of whose first two padas, indeed,
our a, b seem to be a reminiscence) : karambhd osadhe bhava ptvo vrkkd uddratMh.
The comm. explains the word as udriktdrtijanakam (Sayana to RV. entirely differently).
Lin a supplementary note. Roth reports : Ppp. has pivassdkam; R. has, p.m., pibaspd-,
corrected to plbasphd- ;
T. has plvaspd-. \ LCorrect the verse-number : for 6 read 3.
•[_0r is nirapa, at p. 220' 4, a variant of tiriya? The two are easily confused in
ndgarl.\
4. Away we make thine intoxication fly, like an arrow (^ard), O
we make thee with our spell {vdcas) to stand forth,
intoxicating one (f.) ;
like a boiling pot.
The comm. (with a pair of SPP's mss.) reads qarim in b*; it also (alone) has
jesantam {= prayatamdnam') in c; one of our mss. (Op.), with two or three of SPP's,
give instead phantam. Ppp. has a peculiar c : pari tvd varmi ve^antam. The verse
is regular if we make the ordinary abbreviation of iva to 'va in b and c. * ^The
reciters K and V gave (artim: comm. renders as if (drum 'arrow.' BR. render the