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V. 29- BOOK V. THE ATHARVA-VEDA-SAMHITA. 276
12. Bring together, O Jatavedas, what is taken, what borne away;
let his members {gdtra) increase ; let this man fill up like a soma-stalk.
Ppp. begins with samabhara, and \izs, jagdham for hrtam in b.
to sanction the abbreviation 'va in d.
The Anukr. refuses
13. Like a stalk of soma, O Jatavedas, let this man fill up; make him,
O Agni, exuberant, sacrificial {m^dhya), free from ydksma ; let him live.
Ppp. is illegible in the last half of the preceding verse and the first of this ; it reads
at the end jlvase. Our mss. are uncertain about virap^inam, B.p.H. having -psi-,
I. -ptrd-, O. -ip{:
14. These, O Agni, are thy pigdcd-grinding pieces of fuel; them do
thtou enjoy, and accept them, O Jatavedas.
Tht» irregular and defective meter of
this verse is very inaccurately described by the
Anukr.; ,'t counts as 8 + 6: 5 + 11 syllables, having thus a ia6u6/t-e\ement (b), but no
brhatl.
15. The prices of fuel of tarstdghd, O Agni, do thou accept with flame
{arch) ; let the -.flesh-eater who wants to take this man's flesh (ntdhsd)
quit his form.
Or 'of trsidgka' (a);\this name, however, seems not to
pada-\ext reads iarstaoag/Skih.
V.
30. Ti) ^lengthen out some one's life.
be met with anywhere; the
\_Unmocana (cLyusyakdmah). — sapiiada(akam. dnustubham : I . pathydpankti ; g. bhurij
12. 4-p.virddjagatl ; 14. viral(_prastdrapankti ; /'/.^av.6-p.jagali.'\
Found also in Paipp. ix. Used twice by Kail^(58. 3, 11), with a number of other
hymns, in a ceremony for length of life ;
and reckone^ (54. 1 1, note) as belonging to an
ayusya gana.
Translated: Muir, v. 441 ; Ludwig, p. 494; Griffith, i.'i|38 ; Bloomfield, 59, 455;
Weber, xviii. 281 ; in part also by Grohmann, Ind. Stud. (186^) ix. 390, 410-41 1.
I. Thy nearnesses [are] nearnesses, thy distances nearnesses; be just
here
;
go not now ;
go not after the former Fathers ; sthy life idsti) I bind
fast.
The first two padas are obscure ; the two nouns in each can also be both or either
ablatives (so Muir) or genitives sing. Ppp. reads paravatas i.nstead of the second
dvaias, thus rectifying the meter of a ; as it stands, we need to resd>lve a-avdtas I or read
tdva for te\. Ppp. also has^a/a« iox pitfn in d.
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2. In that men have bewitched thee, one of thine oVn people [or] a
strange person— deliverance and release, both I speak' for thee with
my voice.
The translation implies emendation \.o piirusds in a ; all the mss. have sas. I SPP's
texts have -sas without note of variant. We may construe it with the second jif/
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If
they (subject indef.) have bewitched thee, if a man of thine own' etc. — supply
abhicaca?-a. \
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