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V. 30- BOOK V. THE ATHARVA-VEDA-SAJ5IHITA. 278
deliverance {titpdrana) do I
being unharmed.
put forward {puro-dhd), in order to this man's
With b compare viii. i . 8 b, which appears to give the clew to the meaning ; utparana
is the action-noun to ut-paray (viii. 1. 17-19; 2.9). The verse, though by number of
syllables a virad jagati (46 syll.), has plainly five padas L12-I-1 1 : 8 + 7+8 ;
in d, read
tdm-tam for tdm as at iv. 30. 3 ?
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Ppp. omits the last pada.
13. Let breath come, let mind come, let sight come, then strength;
let his body assemble {} sam-vid) ; let that stand firm with its (two) feet.
Lin a, b, the order of the items of the return to life is (if inverted) in noteworthy
accord with that of the items of the process of death, both in fact and also as set forth
in the Upanishads — e.g. ChU. vi.
15.
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14. With breath, O Agni, with sight unite him ; associate {sani-iray)
him with body, with strength ; thou understandest immortality (avirta) :
let him not now go ; let him not now become one housing in the earth.
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Most of our mss. (not B.I.T.K.) appear to read tu instead of nA in d.
Instead of nu
gat in c, Ppp. gives mrta, and it has mo su for r/id nu in d : both are better readings.
15. Let not thy breath give out, nor let thine expiration be shut up;
let the sun, the over-lord, hold thee up out of death by his rays.
Ppp. reads md 'pano in b, and -yachati in d.
16. This much-quivering tongue, bound, speaks within ; by it I have
exorcised the ydksma and the hundred pangs of the fever.
Ppp. reads for b, C ugrajihvd panispadd tayd romam nir aydsah : .
Our edition reads
ivdyd, with all the mss., at the beginning of c, but it must of course be emended to
tdyd, as translated. The Anukr. takes no notice of the lacking syllable in a, which no
resolution can supply. Panispadd in b is prescribed by Prat. iv. 96.
17. This [is] the dearest world of the gods, unconquered. Unto what
death appointed, O man, thou wast born here, we and it call after thee
do not die before old age.
By one of the most absurd of the many blunders of the pada-ttxt, we find^«r«fflo
jajnisS in d treated by it as a compound. Ppp. reads, for c-e, tasmdi tvam iha jajHise
adrstas purusa mrtyave : tasmdi tvd ni hvaydmasi.
31. Against witchcraft.
\^ukra. — dvidafarcam. krtyddusanadevatyam. dnustubham: 11. brhatigarbhd ;
12. pathydbrhati^
Not found (except vs. 1 2) in Paipp. Not noticed in Vait. The hymn is reckoned
as belonging in the krtya gana or krtydpratiharana gana (see note to Kaug. 39. 7), and
it is quoted with several other hymns in Kaug. 39. 7, in a ceremony for counteracting
magic.
Translated : Griffith, i. 241 ; Bloomfield, 76, 456 ; Weber, xviii. 284.