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PÂRASKARA-GRIHYA-SÛTRA.
waters, rich in wealth, ye possess goods. Ye bring us good insight and immortality. Ye are the rulers over wealth and blessed offspring. May Sarasvati give strength to him who praises her!'
4. And with the three (verses), 'O waters, ye are' (Vâg. Samhita XI, 50 seqq.).
5. Then (follows) feeding of the Brâhmanas.
KANDIKÂ 6. 1. Now the cure for headache.
2. Having moistened his hands, he passes them over his eye-brows with (the verse), 'From the eyes, from the ears, from the whiskers, from the chin, from the forehead, I drive away this disease of the head.'
3. If (only) one side (of the head aches, he recites the verse), 'Cleaver! Thou with the disfigured eyes! White-wing! Renowned one! And thou with the various-coloured wing! Let his head not ache.'
4. Then it will get better.
KANDIKÂ 7. I. (Now will be declared) the making water round about a servant who is disposed to run away.
2. While (the servant) is sleeping, he should discharge his urine into the horn of a living animal, and should three times walk round him, turning his left side towards him, and sprinkle (the urine) round him,
7, 1. Uiūla-parimehah. It is probable that utûla, as meaning a slave who habitually runs away, is connected with the use of that word as the name of a tribe in the north-west of India.
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