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343 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK VI. -vi. 84
Translated: Ludwig, p. 500; Bloomfield, JAOS. xiii., p. ccxviii (= PAOS., Oct.
1887), or AJP. xi. 324; Griffith, i. 290; Bloomfield, again, SHE. xlii. 17, 503.
1. O apacits, fly forth, like a bird (suparnd) from its nest ; let the sun
make remedy ; let the moon shine you away.
It was Bloomfield (in the article referred to above) who first maintained that the
apacU is a pustule or sore. The comm. directly identifies the apacits with the ganiiamalas,
"scrofulous swellings of the glands of the neck" (BR.), and explains all the
processes implied in the hymn as referring to such. His etymology of the word under
this verse is 'gathered offward by reason of defect' {dosavaqdd apak clyamandh), and
he describes them as beginning from the throat [and] proceeding downward {galad
' '
arabhya adhastdt prasrtah). The accent of krtidtu in c is the usual antithetical one;
SPP. makes a wholly unnecessary and very venturesome suggestion to explain it.
2. One [is] spotted, one whitish {g/Ml), one black, two red ; of all
have I taken the name; go ye away, not slaying [our] men.
The comm. explains eni as isadraklami^ragveta.
3. Barren shall the apactt, daughter of the black one, fly forth ; the
boil {gldil) shall fly forth from here; it shall disappear from the neck
(J gahmtds).
The translation here given of galuntds is the purest conjecture, as if the word were
a corruption of some form oi gala (our W.O.D. read galantds), with ablative-suffix (as.
It might cont.2i\n gadu 'excrescence on the throat'; indeed, the comm. etymologizes it
2& gaduH -f ^ tas .' He understands na gisyati as two independent words. Ppp. has
sakalaih tena (udhyali (or gusyati), perhaps
'
thereby it dries wholly up.' For rdmdyanl,
compare vii. 74. i.
4. Partake {vi) of [thine] own oblation, enjoying with the mind ;
hail
as now I make oblation with the mind.
This verse, which breaks the uniformity of the book, is evidently an intrusion, and
has no apparent connection with the rest of the hymn, although it is acknowledged by
both Anukr. and comm. The latter curiously mixes it up with vs. i of the next hymn,
reckoning it with 84. I a, b as one verse, and reckoning 84. i c, d and 2 as the following
verse, thus [making 83 a trca and 84 a caturrca\. [An arcy amistubk would seem
to be 24 syllables.J
84. For release from perdition.
\Ahgiras. — eaturrcam. ndirrtam. i. bhurigjagatl ; 2. j-p.drcl brhati ; j, ^.jagati
4. bhurik trJstubh.']
This hymn is not found in Paipp. Kaug. applies it (52. 3), with vi. 63 and 121, in a
rite for welfare. The comm. takes no notice of this, but regards the hymn as implied
in 31. 21 : see under the preceding hymn. In Vait. (38. i) it is found used in a healing
rite in l\\t purusamedha :
this also the comm. overlooks.
Translated: Ludwig, p. ;
444 Griffith, i. 291.
I. Thou in whose terrible mouth I make oblation, in order to the
release of these bound ones; people think of thee as "earth"; I know
thee completely as " perdition " {nirrti).