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HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA.
interested in the Brahman's cow (implied throughout the hymn), because her milk is mixed with Soma; cf. st. 14. See also Sat. Br. V, 4, 2, 3.
Stanza 7. Cf. RV. X, 85, 34. nihkhidam, lit. to throw out.' Professor Roth suggests ni-khsdam, to get down.' nihkhid is certainly dt. dey, and might be for nishkhid=ni-shkhid, re minding us of the MSS. of the Tait. S. which write khkhid in the interior of words (after augment and prepositions); see Ind. Stud. XIII, 106-7. But the statement, that the oppressor of Brahmans swallows the cow, and that he then cannot get her out again, because she sticks in his throat, is equally suitable.
Stanza 8. b. The expression nådiká dántás tápasâ : bhídigdhåh seems to me to contain a double entente, ‘his windpipe (shaft of the arrow), his teeth (points of the arrow), are bedaubed (like the arrow with poison) with holy fire.' A striking figure of speech, hardly to be misunderstood ! Muir, his windpipe is arrow-points smeared with fire;' Ludwig, die nadikå (speiseröre oder luftröre ?) die zähne vom tapah bestrichen ;' Zimmer, seine luftröhre mit Gluth bestrichne Pfeilspitzen;' Grill, die Luftröhr Pfeilspitze, in des Eifers Gluth getauchet.'
Stanza 10. d. vaitahavya, patronymic from vítáhavya, a proper name; cf. st. 11, and V, 19, 1. Zimmer, pp. 132, 200-1, translates the word by die aus habsucht opfernden,' and 'die opfergierigen,' but the word per se has no disparaging meaning ; cf. vítíhotra.
Stanga 11. 0, d. Ludwig, die der Kesarapråbandhå letztgeborene gebraten.? This involves the emendation of karamágám to karamagám (sc. vatsam, call'), and makes Kesarapråbandhå the name of a cow; cf. prathamaga. That cows
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| SR No. | 007679 |
| Book Title | Satapatha Bramhana Part 03 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Julius Eggeling |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1894 |
| Total Pages | 2382 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 45 MB |