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357 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK VI. -vi. Io6
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105. To get rid of cough.
[f««wa«a. — kdsSdevatyam . dnustubham7\
Not found in Paipp. except 2 a, b in xix. Employed by Kaug. (31. 27) in a remedial
against cough and catarrh.
Translated: Ludwig, p. 510; Zimmer, p. 385 ; Griffith, i.302 ;
Bloomfield, 8, 513.
Cf. Hillebrandt, Veda-chrestomathie, p. 50.
1. As the mind with mind-aims flies away swiftly, so do thou, O cough,
fly forth, after the forth-driving (.')
of the mind.
The comm. paraphrases manasketais with manasa buddhivrttya ketyatnanair
jhayamanair durasthair visayaih; and tlie obscure pravayyam with pragantavyam
avadhim.
2. As the well-sharpened arrow flies away swiftly, so do thou, O cough,
fly forth, after the stretch (.'')
of the earth.
The comm. explains sarhvai by samhataprade^a, which at least shows his perplexity.
3. As the sun's rays fly away swiftly, so do thou, O cough, fly forth,
after the outflow of the ocean.
In all these verses, all the authorities anomalously accent the vocative, kase j our
edition makes the called-for emendation to kase; SPP. reads kase.
106. Against fire in the house.
\^Pramocana. — durvdfalddevalyam.
dnustud/tam.']
Found also in Paipp. xix. (with the verse-order 2, i, 3). Kauq. employs the hymn
(52. 5) in a rite for welfare, to prevent conflagration of the house : a hole is made inside,
and water conducted into it, etc. And vss. 3, 2 appear in Vait. (29. 13), with others, in
the agnicayana, in the rite of drawing a frog, water-plant, and reed over the site of
fire-altar.
Translated : Ludwig, Der Rigveda, iv. 422 ;
Grill, 63, 1 70 ; Bloomfield, AJP. xi. 347,
or JAOS. XV. p. xlii (= PAOS., Oct. 1890) ; Griffith, i. 303 ;
and again, Bloomfield, SBE.
xlii. 147, 514.
1. In thy course hither, [thy] course away, let the flowery diirvd grow;
either let a fountain spring up there, or a pond rich in lotuses.
The verse corresponds to RV. x. 142. 8; where, however, the words in b are all
plural, and c, d read thus: hrada^ ca pitnddrikani samudrdsya grha uiid. SPP.,
against the majority of his authorities, strangely adopts in his text the RV. version
of b ; it is read also by the comm., and apparently by Ppp. ; we have noted only one of
our mss. as having pusplitlh (O.s.m.). The coram, says : anena 'gnikrtabadhasyd
^tyantabhdvah prarthitah.
2. This is the down-course of the waters, the abode {niv^gana) of the
ocean ; in the midst of a pool are our houses : turn thy faces away.
The first half-verse is RV. x. 142. 7 a, b (also VS. xvii. 7 a, b; TS. iv. 6. I3; MS.
iL 10. 1), without variation. The Ixst pada is by the comm. regarded as addressed to
the