Questions of King Milinda Part 01

SR No.: 007681
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1890
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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VI, 77. COMMENTARY.
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disposed to run away!. The proceedings consist in fastening a band down the cross-beam of the house and then fastening it to the middle post? Then the foot of the (woman's) bed is fastened to an utpala-plant (nymphaea) S. Further it is fastened to an åkrishta 4. Finally sesame is offered by means of a coal-rake (åkarsha : cf. Darila). The two words akrishta and akarsha both contain the root karsh with à, drag back;' cf. akrishtimantra, charm for drawing a person to one's self,' Hitopadesa, book I, sloka 90. There can be no doubt as to the meaning of the performances: they are intended to hold fast, or to compel the return of a person that has gone off.
The hymn has been translated by Ludwig, Der Rigveda, III, 468, under the heading asvâh ("horses').
Stanza 1. For the use of the aorists in this and the following stanza, cf. Delbrück, Syntaktische Forschungen, II, 87. To our feeling presents would be preferable to the aorists, and we might perhaps have better so rendered. In Pâda d Såyana supplies iva (luptopamam) with asvân, and striyam with atishthipam, in slavish adherence to the Satra. See the introduction.
Stanga 8. Pâdas b, c are formulaic: cf. Vag. S. XII, 8.
Sâyana, palâyanasîlâyâh striyâ nirodhanakarmani. The position of the charm in the second part of the fourth adhyâya of the Sûtra, among the strîkarmâni (Kaus. 32, 28-36, end), shows that Kausika himself regards it as a practice concerning women.
? The symbolism is obvious. For the parts of the house, cf. III, 12, 6, and the introduction to III, 12. See also Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, p. 153.
This is very doubtful. The word utpale here, as at Kaus. 35, 26 (see the introduction to III, 25), is very problematic. Sâyana has upale, 'to a stone.' Apparently a specious, easier reading.
• Whatever that may be. Dârila, akrishtah mâtrikesti prasiddhâbhidhầnas tasmin sayanapadam badhnâti. See Pet. Lex. under matrika. [42]
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