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iv. 12- BOOK IV. THE ATHARVA-VEDA-SAKIHITA. i68
7. If, falling into a pit, he hath been crushed {sam-^r), or if a stone
hurled {pra-kr) hath smitten [him] — as a Rbhu the parts of a chariot,
may it put together joint with joint.
A number of the mss. (including our P.M.O.Op.) read kdrtiim for kartdm in a;
the comm. explains kartain as meaning kartakaiii chedakam ayudham, and makes it
subject of sath^a^r^ = saihhinasiij he takes rbhus as one of the three Rbhus (quoting
RV. i. 1 1 1, i), not giving the word any general sense. Ppp. again has an independent
text: yadi vajro visrsta sthdraka jatu paiitra yadi va ca ristam: vrksdd va yadi va
vibhyasi 0rsa rbhur iti sa evath sath dhatni ie paruh. The verse is a brhati only by
number of syllables (10+10:8 + 8 = 36). LThe comm. makes the "Atharvanic spell"
the subject in d.J
13. For healing.
{J^amtdti. — cdndramasam uta vdifvadevam.
dnustubham.']
Found in Paipp. v. (in the verse-order i, 5, 2-4, 6, 7). Vss. 1-5, 7 are in RV. x. 137,
and vs. 6 occurs elsewhere in RV. x. Only vss. 1-3 have representatives in Yajur-
Veda texts. The hymn is called ^anitaitya in Kaug. (9. 4), in the list of the lag/iu^dnti
gaita hymns; and our comm. to i. 4 counts it also to the brhachanti gana (reading in
Kaug. 9. I uta devas for the tad ei'a of the edited text), but he makes no mention of it
here ; he further declares it to belong among the anholifigds (for which see Kaug. 32. 27,
note); the schol., on the other hand, put it in the ayusyagana (54.11, note). It is
used (58.3,11) in the ceremonies for long life that follow the initiation of a Vedic
student. In Vait. (38. i) it appears, with ii. 33 and iii. 11 etc., in a healing ceremony
for a sacrificer [_see comm. J who falls ill.
Translated: by the RV. translators; and Aufrecht, ZDMG. xxiv. 203 ; Griffith,
i. 147 ; Weber, xviii. 48. — See Lanman's Reader, p. 390.
1. Both, O ye gods, him that is put down, O ye gods, ye lead up
(dgas), O ye gods, O ye gods, ye make
again, and him that hath done evil
to live again.
Found without variant as RV. x. 137. i, and also in MS. (iv. 14. 2.) But Ppp. reads
uddharata for Jin nayathd in b, and its second half-verse is tato tnanusyam tarn deva
devds krniita jivase. The comm. explains avahitam as Hharmavisaye savadltanam,
apramattam, or alternatively, avasthdpitain ; supplying to it kuruta, and making of b
an independent sentence, with double interpretation ; and he says something in excuse
of the four-fold repetition of the vocative.
2. These two winds blow from the river as far as the distance ; let
the one blow hither dexterity for thee; let the other blow away what
complaint (rdpas)
[thou hast].
Besides RV. (vs. 2), TB. (ii. 4. i7) and TA. (iv. 42. i, vs. 6) have this verse. Both
accent in c dvattt, as does SPP's text, and as
ours ought to do, since all the mss. so
read, and the accent is fully justified as an antithetical one ; our text was altered to agree
with the a vdtu of RV., which is less observant of the antithetical accent than AV., as
both alike are far less observant of it than the Brahmanas. All the three other texts
have p&rd for vi at beginning of d; and TB.TA. give me instead of te in c. The
second pada is translated in attempted adaptation to the third and fourth ; of course.