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243 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK V. -V. 1
5. O Kiratan, O spotted one, O grass-haunter (?), O brown one! listen
ye to me, O black serpents, offensive ones !
[Istdmdn) of my comrade ;
stand ye not upon the track
calling out (d-^rdvay), rest quiet in poison.
It is hardly possible to avoid emending statnanam in c to sthamanavi [_' station 'J
or srdmanam |_' course,' from sr ' run ' —
but not quotablej ;
Ppp. is very corrupt in c,
d, but seems to intend no variants. It reads upatarni babhrav in a; our babhra is by
Prat. i. 81, and this passage is quoted in the comment on that rule. It further mutilates
to asitallka in b. The accents in our text |_and SPP'sJ on dsitas and dlikds are against
all rule, and doubtless to be regarded as misreadings ; the translation implies their
absence. In c correct to sAkhyuh (accent-sign lost over u). A number of LourJ mss.
(P.M.H.I.O.) |_and five of SPP'sJ read mise for vis^ in d (and nimise ' at a wink
would be an acceptable emendation) ; M.W. end with rabhadhvam. [_Griffith identifies
kdirata with karait, the Hindustani name (now well known in the Occident) of an
awfully venomous little serpent. This would be most interesting, if certain ; but friend
Grierson writes me that it is improbable on phonetic grounds. We should expect in
Hind. kerd.\
6. Of the Timatan(.'') black serpent, of the brown, and of the waterless,
of the altogether powerful (.'), I relax the fury, as the bow-string of
a bow ; I release as it were chariots.
The translation is as if the reading at end of c were manynm* The /a