Indian Antiquary Vol 58

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications

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MARCE, 1929]
MISCELLANEA
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व्या अयम ॥ अपा रेता ७ सिजिन्वति
MISCELLANEA. SOME ANCIENT SANSKRIT VERSES USED TO-DAY.
|७ राजा ॥ ४०॥ 9:40 Monday. While talking with Pandit Vidya Bhaskar Sukla, late of Farukhabad, U.P., India, I asked him one
देव ककुल्पति: पृथिday (within the last three years) if he could furnish me with any Vedio verses which were in common use among the Hindus of the present day. He
॥१२॥ gave me the subjoined verses with the references from the Yajur Veda. I have since found that most ___Y. V. 3:2 Tuesday. R.V. VIII, 44 : 16. of them appear in the Rig Veda as well, and shall
__ उबुद्धयस्व ।। उद्बुद्ध्यस्वाय्ग्रेप्पतिजागृहिtherefore give the first R.V. reference in addition to that furnished me by my friend. Further occur.
| त्वमिषापूर्तेसह सृजेथामयञ्च ॥अस्मिन्सrences of them in Vedic literature may be found in Bloomfield's Vedic Concordance. The Panditji likewise furnished me further with
प्पस्त्थे अयुत्तस्मिन्त्विश्वेदेवाषजमात instructions respecting the use of these verses, which
श्वसदित॥५४॥ x. v. 15:54 Wednesday. I append with as great accuracy 88 I can from my notes ; but I regret to say that I cannot | अन्नात्परिचुत ॥ अन्नात्परितोरसbe absolutely sure of their being exact. I am told that the use of these verses is as follows:
| ब्रह्मणाध्यपिबत्क्षत्रमपय । सोमम्प्रजापति When sickness, eto, come to one who knows the grahas (nine in all, i.e., Sunday to Saturday all adecuffagfari T143together with Kêtu and Rahu) he should make a chauk on the floor, cover the space with the or | सं इन्द्रस्थेन्द्रियमिदम्पयोमतम्भघु ॥७॥ other grain, and not up akolaba (vessel of clay,
19:75 Friday. copper, or brass) full of water. He should then perform the ahavan, writing above the kalada शन ॥ शन्नौदेवरिभिष्ट्रय आपो "Reverence " to the particular deity invoked, scatter rice toward the kalasa, and offer water, भवन्तु पीतये। शंष्षोरभिसवन्तुन ||१२| flowers, and sandalwood. Then he should worship,
Y.V.36: 123; R.V. 10:9.4 Saturday. lighting a ghe light, after which he should repeat
E . P. JANVIER. the verse for the day the prescribed number of times. The ceremony is completed by the sprink
TO THE EAST OF SAMATATA (S.E. BENGAL). ling of water from the halata on the people of the
In the June, 1926, issue of this Journal (vol. LV, house. If it be impossible to complete this cere p. 113 f.), in a short article entitled to the East mony on the day it is begun, it may be completed
he day it is begun. it may be completed l of Samatata (8.E. Bengal), I drew attention to on the next day, after worship and prayer. It must, different views hitherto expressed as to the identity however, be performed within the time indicated of the six countries mentioned by Hiuan Tsiang in the chaughay a.
As lying beyond Samatata, namely, 1 Shih-liThe following are the verses for the days as given. ch'a-ta-lo, (2) Ka-mo-lang-ka, (3) To-lo-po-ti,(4) in the Vedic text, though they were not always I-shang-na-pu-lo, (5) Mo-ha-chan-p'o, the Lin-yi accurately quoted by the Pandit. It will be noticed of the Chinese, and (6) Yen-mo-na-chou. 1 For that the verse for Thursday is lacking. No doubt the assistance of those interested, (a) & Map, (b) some reader can supply it ;
a Table of Identifications, and (c) a Table of Relaअकृष्ष्णेन ॥ अकृष्ष्णेनरजसावर्तमानो
tive Directions were added.
Mahamahopadhyâya Padmanatha Bhatta charyya Vidyavinod has now written to me, taking
exooption to the Table of Identifications and the स्थनादेवोषातिश्रुवनानिपश्यन ॥ १३ ॥ Map, as not representing correctly the identifica
tions suggested by him, and with his remarks he Y. V. 33:43 Sunday.
sent 4 sketch map, on which he had marked the positions of the six countries as he would locate them. In fairness to him I have had this map reproduced (800 Plato I). The Mahamaho
pådhyâya is anxious that it should be under स्येन्द्रियाय।। इमममष्यपत्रममध्यपत्रमस्यै
stood that in his opinion Samatata included the
modern districts of Decca and Faridpur, and that वयएषवामाराजासामा स्माकम्ब्राह्मणाना old sylhot (which he would identity with
1 Bee T. Watters, On Yuan Chang's Travels in India, vol II, p. 1871. 3 The MS. sketch map has had to be redrawn for the purpose of reproduction, so that the names may be more clearly legible.
निवेशयन्नमृतम्मर्त्यञ्च ॥ हिरण्ण्येतसविता
इमन्देवा 5 असपत्क सुवढम्महतेक्षब्रायमहतेज्यैष्टुयायमूहतेजानराज्यायेन्द्र
विथएषवामीराजासोमो स्माकम्ब्राह्मणाना ।