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arades, lx, Ixiv, 398, 625, 644, 667-8.

brandy (sura), 84, 231, 362, 493, 534,578, 59i; cf. liquor.

p. 696

HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA.

breath of life, deified, 218 ff., 622 ff., 629 ; cf. Prâva.

bridal couple, love charms spoken by, 96, 546 ; cf. wedding.

Br/haspati (Brahma/zaspati), a god,
xxiii, 29, 32, 44, 47, 49, 50, 52,
63, 65, 79, 85 ff., no, 119,
126-8, 135, 140, 143, 160, 163,
178, 193, 211, 213, 485, 541,
552, 554, 596> 610, 660.

Br/hatsaman, a Brahman, 171.

broom-straw (?), 26.

brotherless maidens, 22, 258.

bull's skin, 379 ff.

burial ground, practices at, 77, 431.

business, practices preparatory to, 148, 349 n, 352,490, 532, 619.

Calamity, protection against, 158,
406 ; charm against, addressed
to the Vedic pantheon, 160,
628 ; cf. misfortune.

calf: see cows.

calumny, charm against, 481.

castration, 406, 545.

cattle, charms for their prosperity, 142 ff., 303, 351, 412 ff., 490; charm to restore strayed, 150, 496 ; marking of, 174, 658 ; naming of, 317; sacrifice of, 226, 228; worms in, 317; cf. cows.

cave of animals, 322.

chariot, divine, 120 ; -builder, 144 ; cf. wagon.

child-birth, ceremonies at (#atakarma), 293.

chiromancy (samudrika), 260.

cleft ground, scene of witchcraft, 288 n.

conception, charm to secure it, 96, 501.

consecration : see king ; for the soma-sacrifice, 498.

1 consecration, great : ' see mahajanti.

constellation, lucky, no; unlucky, io9> 5J7; charm for a child born under an unlucky, 109, 517; male, 356; fading away of (symbolic fading of disease;, 16. Names of: asha<tf£a£, 412 ; ^yesh^aghni, 109; mula and mulabarhawi, 288, 517-8, 525; viir/tau, 13, 15, 110,288,517-8;

saptars'.aya^, 52, 161, 179 ff., 39o, 563.

cosmogomc hymns, 199 ff.

couch, symbolic of possession, 327.

cows, charm to secure their return, 150, 414; of the Brahmans inviolable, 169 ff., 430 ff. ; kicking of sinful, 214; slain by Rudra (ijanahata), 253 ; and calves attached to each other, 108, 144, 190, 493 ; with a calf of the same colour, 240, 303, 356, 367 ; cf. cattle.

creators, ten, 226.

creeper, symbol of a loving woman, 100.

cross-roads, 292, 448, 473, 519, 542; cf. fork of the road.

curses, charms to obviate them, 91, 93, 285, 556.

Daksha, 444.

Danavas, 85.

dancing sprites, 33, 149, 410, 413.

danger, protection from, 1556°., 160,

618 ff. dasi, non -Aryan servant- w oman :

see slave-girl. Dasyus, 67, 83, 86, 203, 222. death, from hunger and thirst, 69 ;

messengers of (cf. dogs of Yama),

118 ; of a teacher, expiation of,

528 ; personified as a teacher,

216; tracks of effaced, 436. debate, charm to secure success in,

137, 275, 304 ff., 644.

Dasyus, 67, 83, 86, 203, 222. death, from hunger and thirst, 69 ;

messengers of (cf. dogs of Yama),

118 ; of a teacher, expiation of,

528 ; personified as a teacher,

216; tracks of effaced, 436. debate, charm to secure success in,

137, 275, 304 ff., 644. debts, discharge of, 528. defilement by black birds, 167, 555. demons, charms to drive them away,

1 ff., 33-9, 64 ff., 66, 290, 298,

339, 407-8, 669 ff. ; female, varieties of, 636, 638. DeshM, a goddess that guides, 219. desires, charms for their fulfilment :

see wishes. Dhatar, a god, 20, 54, 81, 86, 94-5,

126, 160, 324, 387, 389. dice, 88, 116, 144, 149-51, 169, 391,

470, 493 ; ill-luck at, 69 ; cf.

gambling, diksha, consecration for sacrifice,

227. directions, and regions of space, 14,

39, 86, 161, 203, 223, 225, 380,

647, 650, 655; enumerated, 188,

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

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192, 196; four, 120, 156, 199, 206, 216, 222, 367; five, 113, 162; six, 68, 207, 222; intermediate, 120, 212, 223; distant regions, 304 ; distances, three, 92 ; of heaven and earth, 99 ; north-eastern direction (aparagitb), 305, 379, 644.

disaffected people, loyalty of restored, 240.

discord : see strife.

diseases, charms against, 1 ff. Enumeration of: abscess (vidradha), 4°,47,53I,6o2; a^watayakshma, 1 unknown disease ,'40, 342,531; ague, 448 ; akshata (tumour), 488, 562 ; ala^i, 602 ; apa^it (scrofula), 17 if., 472 ff., 503, 558-9; arish/a, 513; ajarika, 280,637; asrava (excessive discharges), 483 ; balasa, 2, 8, 39, 40, 42, 46, 57, 61, 280, 383, 442, 450, 463, 531, 575, 601, 674 ; blood, flow of, 40, 531, 657 ; ' breaking disease/ 38 ; of children, 341, 343; colic, 11, 283, 506 ; constipation, io, 233, 235 ; consumption, 49, 247, 415, 442 n, 450, 463 ; convulsions, 37, 55, 283, 467; cough, 2, 7, 8, 247-8, 442, 513 ; deformity, 72; demons of disease, 33-9, 339; diarrhoea, 46, 233, 325, 327, 445, 483, 601 ; discharges, excessive, 8 ff., 277, 481, 672 ; dropsy, 11 ff., 42, 89, 241, 450, 47i, 509, 53o, 562; ear-ache, 40, 44-5; epilepsy, 264, 513; ot the eye, 5, 12, 24, 30, 40, 47, 4i5, 454, 464; fever (takman ; cf. takmanajana), of all sorts, 1 ff, 39, 46, 60, 157, 218, 233, 246, 270, 273 ff., 280,415, 441-2, 445, 451, 468, 470, 569, 676, 681 ; fractures (cf. wounds), *9, 384 5 galunta (swelling), 17, 505» ^ambha, 280, 283, 467, 572 ; #ayanya (tumour), 17, 560-1 ; gout (in heels and toes),

1 2 ; grahi (fit, seizure) : see the
word ; head-ache (jirshakti), 5,
7, 45-6, 248, 252, 415, 442,
657; heart-disease, 7, 12, 40,
264, 471 ; hemiplegia, 500 n ;
hereditary disease (kshetriya),

13 ff., 47, 67, 286 ff., 293,

7,
560-1 ; gout (in heels and toes),

1 2 ; grahi (fit, seizure) : see the
word ; head-ache (jirshakti), 5,
7, 45-6, 248, 252, 415, 442,
657; heart-disease, 7, 12, 40,
264, 471 ; hemiplegia, 500 n ;
hereditary disease (kshetriya),

13 ff., 47, 67, 286 ff., 293, 302,

336; inflammation, 531 ; jaundice, 7, 8,46,61,263,442,445,

471, 566; leprosy (kilasa), 16, 266,415,441,450; mania: see the word; of nails, 521; neuralgia, 40, 45-7, 506 ; paman (eruption), 2, 442, 450; paralysis, 13, 500; pr/shtyamaya, 280 ; ra^ayakshma, ' king's evil ' (syphilis ?), 342, 415, 561 ; rheumatism, 282, 506; sawskandha (disease or demon), 38, 280, 283, 672; scrofula and scrofulous sores (cf. apa^-it), 17 ff.,

472, 488 ff., 503 -ff-, 558-9; spasm, 2; St. Vitus dance, 513; transmission of, 47, 309 ; of teeth, 24, 72, 454, 521 ; tumours, 17, 19; udyuga, 450; vatikara, vatikrita (inflation, winds), 10, 22, 246, 483, 516, 602 ; venereal disease, 341 ; viklindu, 174, 658 ; vilohita, 600, 657; vijara, vijarika, 280, 284, 673; visarpaka (visalpaka), 531, 601 ; vishkhanda (cf. sanzskandha), 37-9, 61, 65, 67, 257, 280, 282, 339, 382,672 ; worms in all parts of the body, 22-24, 313 ff. ; worms in children, 23, 452; wounds (cf. fractures), 20-1, 419, 516; yakshma, 247, 291,337,416,463,468,505,507.

dogs, 106 (watch-dog?); as beasts of prey, 129; heavenly (sun and moon), 13, 500 ; bitch, foureyed, 68; of Rudra, 158; of Yama (messengers, four-eyed), 54, 59, 60, 167, 318, 404, 422, 500, 57i.

double meaning, 238, 250, 254, 259, 306, 313, 346, 381, 386, 544, 549, 645, 664; cf. alliteration and puns.

dreams, evil, 12, 61, 69, 82, 167, 221, 394, 483 ff., 592, 605, 642.

dr/^ikarmawi, a ceremony, 640.

driveling woman, 109.

Druh, demon of deceit, 14-5.

drum (hymns to), 117, 130 ff., 204, 436 ff.; spell in, 77.

Dvita, a water-god, 521-2.

' dwelling, mistress of,' 140, 194-5,
346; cf. house.

Dyu, a sky-god, 50 ; female of Surya,
661, 665.

p. 698

HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA.

Eagle, 16, 77, 132, 137, 146, 190,
306 ; finds healing plants, 306,
375; heavenly (lightning), 68,
241, 401, 581.

ears of cattle, pierced, 174, 658.

earth, mother of plants, 235; goddess, 180, 199 ff., 639 ff.; lump of (curative), 234, 287, 475, 552; from a bee-hive, 427 ; from a mole-hill, 427; -quake, 640; earths, three in number, 30, 68, 400,471,631,686; earths, nine in number, 228, 631.

eclipse of moon, 533 ; of sun, 294, 662 n.

effigy, human, in witchcraft, 72., 359,

534.
Ekata, a water god, 521-2.
elephant, 76, 116, 144, 195 (female),

202. enema, 236.