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295 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK VI. -vi. 21
20. Against fever (takman).
[Bkrgvangtras. — yaksmand^anaddivatam. i. atijagatl ; z. kakummafiprastirapanktih ;
J. satahpanktih.'\
Only the last verse is found in Paipp., in book xiii. Appears in Kaug. (30. 7) in a
remedial rite for bilious fever, and is reckoned (note to 26. i) to the iakmanagana gana.
Translated: Grohmann, Ind. Stud. ix. 384, 393; Ludwig, p. 511 ; Zimmer, p. 380;
Florenz, 273 or 25 ;
Griffith, i. 255 ;
Bloomfield, 3,468.
1. Of him as of burning fire goeth the vehemence (.'); likewise, as it
were, shall he crying out go away from me ; some other one than us let
the ill-behaved one seek ; homage be to the heat-weaponed fever.
The translation given implies the easy emendation of qusminas to (lismas, which
eases the meter,* and helps the sense out of a notable difficulty. The comm. and the translators
understand (perhaps preferably) mattds in b as pple of tnad, instead of quasiablative
of the pronoun ma, as here rendered (" he flees, crying like a madman," R.).
The comm. takes avratas as intended for an accusative, -tarn. The verse is really a
jagati \i\'Cn one redundant syllable in a. *LThe metrical difficulty is in the prior part
of a ; the cadence of a is equally good with fusmtnas or with fupnas.\
2. Homage to Rudra, homage be to the fever, homage to king
Varuna, the brilliant (tvlslmant), homage to the sky, homage to the
earth, homage to the herbs.
The Anukr. scans the verse asi2-(-i2:9-f6 = 39 syllables.
3. Thou here who, scorching greatly, dost make all forms yellow — to
thee here, the ruddy, the brown, the woody takmdn, do I pay homage.
Ppp. reads, in a, ruras for yas ; its c, d are ariinaya babhrave tapurmaghavaya
namo 'stu takmane. The comm. understands vdnyaya in d as gerundive of root van =
samsevySya: perhaps 'of the forest,' i.e., having no business in the village. The verse
(9-t-li : 9-1- 1 2) is too irregular for the metrical definition given |_cf. viii. 2. 2rJ.
The second anuvaka ends here, having 10 hymns and 32 verses, and the quotation
from the old Anukr. is simply dvittyau, which ought to combine with tht prathama of
the first anuvSka — only one does not see how, as the two are not equal in number
of verses.
21. To healing plants.
[^amtdti. — cdndramasam. dnustubham ."^
Found also in Paipp. i. Used by Kau^. (30. 8) in a remedial rite for growth of hair.
Translated : Florenz, 275 or 27 ; Grill, jo, 160 ; Griffith, i. 256 ;
Bloomfield, 30, 470.
See also Bergaigne-Henry, Manuel, p. 150.
I. These three earths {prthivi) that there are — of them earth (bhUmi)
is the highest ; from off their skin have I seized a remedy.
Ppp. elides the initial a of aham in c, and its d is sain u jagrabha bhesajatn. |_See
Griffith's note.
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