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HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA.
munga-grass, 234; of the parnatree, 114, 332; of the pârâ-plant, 305; of pearl, 62, 383; of the pûtudru-tree, 573; of the sadampushpâ-plant, 339; of salve, 381; of the skin of a bull pierced by a peg (?) 263; of the sraktya-tree, 79, 575; of V a spear, 506; of târkha, 476; of ten kinds of holy wood, 34, 291 ff., 477, 578; of a thread that is red, 67; of the varanatree, 81, 402, 505, 605. Andhaka (Ardhaka), 155, 619. Angas, a people, 2, 446, 449. anger, charms against, 136 ff., 479 ff.
Angiras and Ângirasa, mythic personages, xxx ff., 38, 43, 73, 80, 86, 89, 119, 127-8, 161, 163, 171, 191, 225, 280, 433, 484, 576, 673, 678; special meaning in contrast with Atharvan and Atharvana, xviii ff., xxi ff., xxiii ff., xxxi, 219, 576, 580, 603, 624. Angirasab,designation of the Atharvaveda, xviii, xxxi; cf. Atharvângirasab, Bhrigvangirasab. annaprâsana, ceremony at the first feeding of a child, 575. antelope, buck, 32; horn of, 15, 336; skin of, 132, 215, 336, 439. ants (and earth from an ant-hill, cure poison), 27, 234, 287, 511, 552 ff.; produce water ('pissant'), 9, 278; devour scorpions,
30.
Anumati, a female divinity, 98, 104, 109, 143, 173, 304, 461, 535. Apâm napât, a divinity, 589. aphrodisiaca, 370. Aprî-hymns, 228.
Apsaras and Apsarâ, 32, 80, 104, 119, 125-6, 149, 160, 202, 205, 225, 229, 324, 370, 408 ff., 414, 425, 518, 520-1, 534-6; names of, 33, 409 ff., 534. Aptyas, three water-divinities, 521 ff. Apvå, divinity of evacuation from fright, 122, 325-7, 601; cf. Sakambhara.
Araru, a divinity, 167, 485. Arâti, demon of avarice and grudge, 15, 57, 82, 109, 172 ff., 187, 261, 423.
Arâya and Arâyî, male and female demons, 66, 69, 70, 162, 205. Arbudi, name of a battle-divinity, 123 ff., 631 ff.; cf. Nyarbudi. Ardhaka (Andhaka), 155, 619. arka and arka-songs, 112, 226. arrow, of love, 102, 358; parts of,
432; poisoned, as a homoeopathic cure for poison; 'whitefooted, four-footed,' 127, 129; -wounds, charm against, 120. arteries, 11, 22, 259. Arya, 68, 72, 402.
Aryaman, 20, 94-5, 99, 109, 143, 160, 243, 323, 333, 491. Asâ and Asâpati, divinities, 486. Asita, a sage, 31, 107. 255. assembly and assembly-hall, 136,
138, 191-2, 206; charm to obtain influence in, 134 ff., 138, 543; spell in, 76. assignation, charm at, 105, 371. astrologers and fortune-tellers, I. Asura (sing.), 111, 241, 380 (Indra);
Asurî (fem.), 16, 103 (Siren), 268 ff.; Asuras (plural), 9, 11, 21, 27, 62, 67, 71, 79, 80, 82-3, 85-6, 127-8, 137, 199, 215, 222-3, 268, 279, 341, 398, 500, 516, 572.
Asvins, 48, 52, 85, 95, 100-1, 112-13, 142, 160, 200, 229 ff., 310, 312, 329, 389, 486, 503, 512, 581, 587-9.
Atharvan and Atharvana, mythic
sages, xxx ff., 148, 225, 588 n, 688; Atharvans (plural), 33, 86, 161; special meaning in contrast with Angiras and Angirasa xviii ff., xxiii ff., xxxi, 219, 603, 624; derivatives from the stem atharvan, xxiv; schools, relation of to one another, lxi; teachers, xlii, lviii. Atharvângirasab, designation of the
AV., xvii, xxx, xxxii, xlvii, 433; cf. Angirasab, Bhrigvangirasab. Atharva-veda, names of and their meanings, xvii; position of in Hindu literature, xxviii; in the RV., xxx ff.; in the Saunakiyasamhitâ, xxxi ff.; in the sruti in general, xxxiii; in the Tait. S., Xxxvi; in the Sat. Br., xxxvi; in the Tait. Br., xxxvii; in the Upanishads, xl ff.; in the Grihya
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