delightest in red sandal, long-tongued, goddess of ghosts, and mighty in words! O devour, devour my foe!
Hum! phaṭ! Sváhá!"
When you use this spell collect some ashes, utter his name and sprinkle the ashes [some words unintelligible this shall cause his death.
"Salutation to Gaṇeça. I salute the great Bhagavatí, queen of magic. [Here the first paragraph is repeated.]
"I worship the Par′aiyan Goddess who delights in flesh and blood, the dreadful Káṭeri[1]. Eat! Eat! I hail the awful god Rudra[2]."
[Here some words are so ignorantly written that the sense cannot be made out.
Then follow the magic syllables as above.]
Mode of using the above charm. Take the grains called gram, pease, minumulu[3] &c. and mix them with rice, take a handful and make them into a paste with running water, and of this paste make an image. This you must place in
- ↑ 'A forest-goddess whose power lies in inflicting diarrhœa.' Brown's Telugu Dictionary.—Ed.
- ↑ One of the names for Çiva, [Rudra, with whose name Benfey (Griechisches Wurzellexicon II, 6) ingeniously connects (
Greek characters) for (
Greek characters)=rudrû, appears in the Vedas to be identical with Apollo. Both gods bear the bow. Rudra knows a thousand medicines, and is the best of leeches. Apollo is called (
Greek characters) etc., and is father of Asklépios. Rudra fares through storm and clouds, and has his hair therefore made up in a mighty knot, whence he is called kapardin in the Rig Veda, 1,114,1,5 'he who hath "his hair wound into the form of a shell' (kaparda 'cypraea moneta') Böhtlingk-Roth, II, 62. So Homer Il. 20, 39 calls Apollo (
Greek characters), and artists represented him with long, strong hair bound behind into a knot. As Rudra is called vanku, 'tortuose incedens' as god of the eddying storm, so Apollo is (
Greek characters) (from (
Greek characters) obliquus)—which has nothing to do with the ambiguity of his oracles. As Apollo had a sister Artemis, so Rudra had Ambikâ. Apollo was called Smintheus (Il. 1, 39) from (
Greek characters) 'mouse', and was represented by the sculptor Skopas with a mouse at his feet. The mouse (âkhu or mûsh, (
Greek characters), mûshikâ) was sacred to Rudra. See Kuhn, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschuug, III, 335, Kuhn, Herabkunft des Feuers, 202. Pictet, Origines indoeuropéennes, II, 176.—Ed.]
- ↑ (A kind of bean grown on dry lands (Phascolus Mungo)—Wilson.