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MISCELLANEA.
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MISCELLANEA. VADDAVARA
vipattin Daityana Gurur akhila-bhôg-AnuThe details given by Prof. Kielhorn on page 111
bhavanam above, in connection with certain dates which
I nsiņam tail-abhyangat sa padi kurato include the word Vaddavars as the name of s
Saryatanayah 11 dsy of the week, render unnecessary the greater This marks Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and part of a note which I have had on hand, un- Friday, as unlucky days.- Monday and Wednesfinished, for over four years. But it may be use- day, as lucky days.- and Saturday, as the best ful to now supplement what he has written
day of all, for the tailabhyanga. Prof. Kielhorn has arrived at the opinion that So, also, a verse from the Muhurta-Mártanda - Vaddsvåra must be either Saturday or (Bhadrú-Barikrama-pita, &c.; quoted in the DharSunday, and that the chances are in favour of masindhusdra, parichchhêda iii. para. 134) - Bays Sunday.'
that one should not make the taildbhyanga, withOn the other hand, I arrived at the opinion that ont some suficient reason, on Sunday, Tuesday, Vaddavára is most probably Saturday. But Thursday, and Friday. I have not been able to obtain the actual And another verse, given in the same paragraph, proof that is needed. And that is why my note implies the same, by stating that the tailabhyanga has remained unpublished.
confers happiness, if flowers are scattered on a Finding, like Prof. Kielhorn, that the available Sunday, fragrant earth on a Tuesday, durvú-grass dates do not give uniform results, I was pursuing on a Thursday, and cowdung on a Friday. a different line of inquiry, which was suggested Also, another passage in the Dharmasindhu-8dra, by the fact that, among the grants recorded in parichchheda i. para. 45, says, in general terms, an inscription at Talgund in Mysore, dated in the that the tailithyanga should be avoided on a 1śvara savitatsara, A. D. 1157-58 (Pali, Sanskrit, Suuday. and Oul-Canarcse Inscriptions, No. 219), there is There are also rules prescribing the tailubhyanga mentioned (line 65-66) the item of - Vadda- for certain tithis and festivals, and prohibiting it Varsdol abhyanga Somaváradal 30 manushya for certain other similar occasione Rnt the brahmanat ruguran kalava navidana jivitain ga above is all that I have been able to find, on the 4. - "four gallyuinas (for) smearing the body
subject of the taildbhyanga in connection with with oil on Vaddsvåra, (and for the support
the week-days. of a barber who is to bathe thirty sick Brahmaņs
The general tendency of the passages given (or, perhaps, the thirty Brahmans, when they fall
above is, that the tailabhyanga may ordinarily be sick) on Monday.”
preformed on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. This passage shews that at any rate Vadda
Of these three days, Monday is plainly excluded, våra is not Monday. And my object was to find
as far as the meaning of Vaddavára is concerned, out the day of the week for which the abhyanga
by the Talgund inscription. And, Saturday being or tailabhyanga is prescribed by the Sastras.
clearly indicated as the best day of all for the Prof. Kielhorn will very probably be able to give
tailabhyanga, and also answering best to the dates the final passage that is required. Meanwhile, I that I calculated, I arrived at the opinion that will quote the following:--
Vaddsvars is most probably Saturday. But Mr. Sh. B. Dikshit supplied me with the follow- of course the result is not a conclusive one. And ing from Sripati's Ratnomulu, Vära-prakarana, it remains to be seen whether it can be borne out verse 9:
by, for instance, any other passage to the effect Ravis tâpan kantin vitarati Sasi Bhumitanayo that, under all ordinary circumstances, and as far mpitit luksha mitu Chandrih Surapatigurur as the week-days only are concerned, Saturday is
vitta-harañain the proper day for the tailabhyanga.
1 As regards the latter point, he seems to have been somewhat influenced by some remarks by Mr. Rice, from which he infers that tadda may be synonymous with mukhya and Adi. But I cannot find anything to support such a meaning of the word. - As we have, in Kanarese, oddita, dulness,' it is just possibe that odda, varda, may be a corruption of the Sanskrit mandu, which is used as a name of the planet. Saturn. But I have not been influenced by this idea in the result at which I have
arrived. - In an inscription at Tagund (P. S. and 0.-C. Inscriptions, No. 217, line 20, and Myrore Inscriptions, p. 203, and note), that village is called "the glorious great vadda-village, Tanagundur" (see ante, Vol. IV. p. 279, note S). But I doubt whether in that expression, or in vaddarduula as the name of an ancient tax, and in raddavyavaharin which indicates a trade or profession, valda has the same application as in vaddarura.
