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vii. 58- BOOK VII. THE ATHARVA-VEDA-SAMHITA. 428
RV. reads -vrats, at end of b, adhvardm (which is much better) in c, and^a/; in d.
Ppp. has 'dhvaram in c, with ayo iox yuv6 \j>. j/uvM ], and yaAi in d. The comm.
explains adhvaras as hiiisarahitas, qualifying rathas, and svdsaravi as =yajamanasya
grhain.
2. O Indra-and-Varuna, of the bull soma, most rich in sweet, pour in,
ye bulls ; here is your beverage (dtidhas), poured about ; sitting on this
barhis, do ye revel.
RV. fills out the meter and sense of c by adding at the end asmi (the Anukr.
ignores the deficiency), and Ppp. seems to read idam -udtn astne parisiktam andha
"sad- etc. ; it also has vrseta at end of b. The comm. explains a vrsetham by dqnUatn,
quoting QB. ii. 4. 2. 20 as authority.
59(61). Against cursers.
\Bddardyani. — arindfaiiamantroktadevatdkam.
dnmiiibham.']
Found also in Paipp. xx. (as part of our hymn vi. 37). This verse has the same
pratika as vi. 37.3; but the comm. Lon vi. 37, page 70, line 2J,
doubtless with reason,
regards vi. 37. 3 as intended at Kaug. 48.37 |_Bloomfield there gives bothj; this hymn,
then, is left without ritual use. [In fact, the comm. on this hymn, at p. 418, line 4,
does cite/(? nah ^apiil for use in the same rite for which he cited it in his comment on
vi.37-J
Translated: Henry, 23, 86; Griffith, i. 355.
I. Whoever shall curse us not cursing, and whoever shall curse us
cursing, like a tree smitten by a thunderbolt, let him dry up from the
root.
The first half-verse is vi. 37.3 a, b, and is found in other texts* as there referred to.
Ppp. has the whole verse as our vi. 37.3, and it combines in c, as often, vrksdi'va.
The Anukr. seems to ratify the contraction vrkse 'va. *LSee also Katha-hss. p. 74.J
The fifth anHvdka ends here; it has 8 hymns and 25 verses; the Anukr. quotation
for the verses \s pahcai'vo "rdhvaih vin^atek pancame syuh, and, for the hymns, /a«-
camo 'stall.
Here ends also the sixteenth prapdthaka.
60 (62). To the home : on returning or leaving.
\Brahman (ramydn grhdn vdstospatin aprdrthayat). — saptarcam. vdstospatyam. dnustubham :
I. pardiiustitp trisliibh.']
Found also in Paipp. iii. (in the verse-order i, 2, 6, 3, 4, 5). Used by Kaug. several
times: first, it* is muttered (24. 11) in front of the house by one who has been absent
for some time, he taking fuel in his hands ;
second, it again accompanies the action of
taking fuel, in a rite for the harmony of all inmates of the house (42.8); third, in the
ceremony of preparing duly the house-fire (72. 5), with the direction iti prapddayati, for
making the persons concerned enter the house; fourth, in X\\e piirmedha (82. 15), with
the same direction; fifth, in the pindapitryajna (89. 11), at the end, on entering the
house; further, the schol. add it (note to 8.23) to the vastugana, and (note to 19. i)