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vi. 12- BOOK VI. THE ATHARVA-VEDA-SAMHITA. 29O
water-grass ' (fdivS/a) : all these are to pour on (a sincantu) poison-removing honey.
The Ppp. text is quite different : abhi na prksa nadyas parvatai 'va girayo madhu :
madhu prstl (tpala samaste 'siu qath hrdaya. Perhaps parusnt signifies here an
'
eddying ' brook, and qtpala. a pool
' rich in water-plants.' |_Considering that the effect
of snake-bite upon heart and blood must have been well known to even the most
unlettered Hindu, I am tempted to suggest emendation of asni to asnd.\ \\n R. and
W's ed., correct nadydj to nadydih.\
13. To the instruments and ministers of death.
[Atkarvan (svastyayanakimd). — mdrtya\ya\m.
dnustudAam.']
Found also in Paipp. xix. The hymn is variously employed by Kaug. : in a rite for
victory (14.25), with iii. 26, 27 ; and again (15.6), similarly, in favor of a Vaigya ; in
the preparation of the house-fire (72. 13), with an offering; four times in the chapter
of portents : once (104.3) when Brahmans quarrel; again (105. l) when images play
pranks; yet again (113. 3) when a cow suckles an ox (these three in company with
i. 19); once more (123. i), when animals touch sacred things ;
and it is further reckoned
(note to 25. 36) to the svastyayana gana.
Translated: Florenz, 264 or 16; Griffith, i. 251.
1. Homage to the weapons (yadkd) of the gods; homage to the
weapons of kings; likewise the weapons that are of the Vai9yas — to
them of thine, O death, be homage.
Ppp. has mqvanam in c.
2. Homage to thy benediction ; homage to thy malediction ; homage
to thy favor, O death ;
this homage to thy disfavor.
Ppp. omits the first half-verse, doubtless by accident. The comm. takes the datives
in a and b as nomina agentis.
3. Homage to thy sorcerers ; homage to thy remedies ; homage to thy
roots, O death ; this homage to the Brahmans.
14. Against the balasa.
\Babhrupmgala (.').— baldsadevatyatn.
dnuitubham.']
Occurs also in Paipp. xix. Used by Kauq. (29. 30) in a remedial rite against catarrh
((lesmati), with variously administering prepared water to the patient.
Translated: Florenz, 265 or 17; Griffith, i. 252 ; Bloomfield, 8, 463; vs. i also by
Grohmann, Ind. Stud. ix. 397, with an excursus on the balasa.
I. The bone-dissolving, joint-dissolving, settled (dsthita) heart disease,
all the baldsa, cause thou to disappear, that is
the joints.
seated in the limbs and in
SPP. adopts in a the samhifa-rediAmg parusransdm (p. paruhosransdm), with nearly
all his mss., and with the comm. The majority also of our mss. |_not E.O.J omit the h
but the Prat, authorizes no such abbreviation, and the point is one in regard to which
the usage of the mss., however seemingly accordant, is not to be trusted. Ppp. reads.