Atharva-Veda-Samhita, Volume 2Charles Rockwell Lanman Harvard University, 1905 - 48 pages |
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accent Agni agnicayana Añgiras Anukr ānuṣṭubham ascribed Atharva-Veda Atharvan Aufrecht authorities Berlin birch-bark manuscript birch-bark original Bloomfield blunder book xix books i.-xviii Bp.a Bp.b Brāhmaṇa Buddhist ceremony CHARLES ROCKWELL LANMAN cometh comm conjectures copy corrupt critical doubtless earth edition emendation English facsimile folio gives grand division Griffith half-verse Harvard University Hindu hymns India Kālidāsa Kashmirian text Kauç Kauçika Ludwig Mailing price MAURICE Bloomfield meter nāgarī original Sanskrit pāda Pāipp Pāippalāda Pāli Pancha-tantra parallel texts Pischel Prākrit Prāt Professor of Sanskrit Pūrṇa-bhadra's reads recension reference Rig-Veda rite ritual Roth Roth's Collation Royal 8vo Samhitā Sanskrit in Harvard sapless Savitar Sāyaṇa snake SPP's Sūtras take that back tatantha thee thine thou three grand divisions thy poison translation Tübingen variant Veda Vedic Vedic text verse verse-order volume Vulgate Weber Whitney WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY witchcraft witchcraft-maker words Yama ZDMG
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Page 1054 - Cakuntala, a Hindu drama by Kalidasa: the Bengali recension, critically edited in the original Sanskrit and Prakrits by RICHARD PISCHEL, late Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Berlin.
Page 1038 - natural" color, that is, " green "J. 3. I smite thy teeth together with tooth, thy (two) jaws together with jaw, thy tongue together with tongue, thy mouth, O snake, together with mouth. Ppp. reads at the beginning sam te dad&mi dadbhir datas, omits u in b, and ends with asnahasyam. The comm. understands " thy lower teeth with thine upper tooth," and so in the other cases: but this is very unacceptable ; and more probably the tooth, jaw, etc.
Page 1030 - ... Now to the shaft with venom smeared, tipped with deer-horn, with iron mouth, Celestial, of Parjanya's seed, be this great adoration paid. Loosed from the bowstring fly away, thou arrow, sharpened by our prayer, Go to the foemen, strike them home, and let not one be left alive.
Page 1004 - ... completeness. They are beyond the reach of human thanks, of praise or blame : but I cannot help feeling that even in their life-time they understood that Science is concerned only with results, not with personalities, or (in Hindu phrase) that the Goddess of Learning, SarasvatI or Vac, cares not to ask even so much as the names of her votaries ; and that the unending progress of Science is indeed like the endless flow of a river. 1 These, I trust, will not be wholly unpleasing to my pundit-friends...
Page 1027 - I make for you ; do ye show affection (hary) the one toward the other, as the inviolable [cow] toward her calf when born. Ppp. has samnasyam in a, and in c anyo "nyam, as demanded by the meter. The comm. also reads the latter, and for the former sammanusyam; and he ends the verse with aghnyas.
Page 1027 - Ppp. has samnasyam in a, and in c anyo "nyam, as demanded by the meter. The comm. also reads the latter, and for the former sammanusyam; and he ends the verse with aghnyas. 2. Be the son submissive to the father, like-minded with the mother ; let the wife to the husband speak words (vdc} full of honey, wealful.
Page 1005 - The Gita's lesson had our Whitney learned — To do for duty, not for duty's meed. And, paid or unpaid be the thanks he earned, The thanks he recked not, recked alone the deed. Here stands his book, a mighty instrument, Which those to come may use for large emprise.
Page 1001 - Whitney's life, with a noble medallion portrait. A leaf of the birch-bark ms. from Kashmir is beautifully reproduced in color. The typography is strikingly clear. Few texts of antiquity have been issued with appurtenant critical material of so large scope. And never before or since has the material for the critical study of an extensive Vedic text been so comprehensively and systematically gathered from so multifarious sources, and presented with masterly accuracy in so well-digested form.
Page 1030 - I exorcised the poison, from the anointing and from the feather socket ; from the barb (spaslha), the neck, the horn, have I exorcised the poison. Sapless, O arrow ! is thy tip ; likewise thy poison is sapless ; also thy bow of a sapless tree, O sapless one ! is sapless. They who mashed, who smeared, who hurled, who let loose — they all made impotent; impotent is made the poison...