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347 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK VI. -vi. 90
89. To win affection.
[Atkarvan. — manlroktaddivatam.*
dnustubham^
This hymn also, like the preceding, is wanting in Paipp. Kau^. (36. lo-il) applies
it in a women's rite, for winning affection, addressing the head and ear, or wearing the
hair, of the person to be affected. *|_The Anukr. text is confused here ; but the Berlin
ms. seems to add tnanyuvind^anam.\
Translated : Weber, Ind. Stud. v. 242 ; Griffith, i. 293.
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1. This head that is love's (}preni), virility given by Soma — by what
engendered out of that, do we pain (gocaya) thy heart.
Preni is as obscure to the comm. as to us ; he paraphrases it hy premaprdpaka 'that
He takes vrstiya as adj., trials pari prajaiena
obtains (or causes to obtain) affection.'
in c as one word, and supplies to it snehaviqesena. |_Whitney's O. combines tdtas pdri.\
2. We pain thy heart ; we pain thy mind ; as smoke the wind, close
upon it (sadhrydnc), so let thy mind go after me.
The sign in our text denoting kainpa in sadhryan should have been, for consistency's
sake, I (as in SPP's text) and not 3 ; the mss., as usual, vary between i and 3 and
nothing. The comm. reads sadhrim.
3. Unto me let Mitra-and-Varuna, unto me divine SarasvatI, unto me
let the middle of the earth, let both [its] ends fling (sam-as) thee.
The comm. renders samasyatdm by samyojayatdm.
90. For safety from Rudra's arrow.
\Atharvan.— rdudram. i, 2. anustubh ; j. drsi bhurig usnihP^
Found also in Paipp. xix. (in the verse-order 2, i, 3). Used by Kau9. (31. 7) in a
healing rite against sharp pain (f?//a); also reckoned (note to 50. 13) to the rdudra gaiia.
Translated: Grill, 14, 168; Griffith, i. 294; Bloomfield, 11, 506.
1. The arrow that Rudra hurled at thee, at thy limbs and heart, that
do we now thus eject asunder from thee.
Ppp. has, for c, imam tvdm adya te vayam. The comm. understands the infliction
to be the (iilaroga (colic ?). [_In c, iddm, ' thus ' or ' herewith ' i.e. ' with this spell ' ?J
2. The hundred tubes that are thine, distributed along thy limbs, of
all these of thine do we call out the poisons.
Ppp. reads kirSs for (atam in a, and sdkam for vayam in c. The comm. takes
nirvisdni as a single word in d (j= visarahitani). [_Cf. i.
17.3.J
3. Homage to thee, O Rudra, when hurling ; homage to [thine arrow]
when aimed {prdtikita) ; homage to it when let fly ; homage to it when
having hit.
Ppp. has, in \), pratihitabhyas ; in c, d, visrjyamandbhyo namas trayatdbhyah (but
in i., where the verse is also found, nipatitdbhyak). The verse is usnih only by number
of syllables.