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V. 28- BOOK V. THE ATHARVA-VEDA-SAKIHITA. 272
28. With an amulet of three metals : for safety etc.
[AiAarvan. — caturdafarcam. trivrddevatyam (agnyddin mantroktdn drvdn satnprirthya trivrtarn
astduf). trdistubham : 6. J-p. aiifakvari ; 7, 9, 10, iz. kakummatyanustubh ; 13. purausnih.']
[_The second half of I is prose. J Found also (except vs. 2 and vss. 12-14) iri
Paipp. ii. Used by Kau?. twice, in company with i.9 and i.35, in a ceremony (11. 19)
for obtaining one's desires and in one (52. 20) for winning splendor ; and vss. i, 12-14
in one (58. 10, 11) for gaining length of life.
Translated : Ludwig, p. 387 ; Griffith, i. 234 ;
Weber, xviii. 271.
1. Nine breaths with nine he combines (.' sam-md), in order to length
of life for a hundred autumns ; in the yellow (Jidrita), three ; in silver,
three;
in iron (jtdyas), three— enveloped with fervor.
'Yellow,' doubtless 'gold.' Ppp. reads rajasa for tapasa in d. The second halfverse
can hardly be called anything but prose, though the Anukr. takes it as good tristubh
meter. It appears doubtful whether this verse belongs with the rest, and whether the
nine pranagrahas, or the nine verses of the trivrt stoma, are not rather intended in it.
2. Fire, sun, moon, earth, waters, sky, atmosphere, directions, and
quarters, they of the seasons in concord with the seasons — let them
rescue {pdray) me by this triple one.
The verse, as was noted above, is wanting in Ppp. One and another ms., here as
later, reads trvft. To fill out the meter of C we have to make the harsh and unusual
resolution of the first a of artavas.
3. Let three abundances {posa) resort to the triple one; let Pijshan
anoint it with milk, with ghee; affluence of food, affluence of man
{prirusa), affluence of cattle — let these resort hither.
Ppp. reads in a trivrta