Page:Atharva-Veda samhita.djvu/182

i. 11- to a more familiar word; the comm. understands sūṣaṇi and biṣkali (of course, equally possible); the former, from roots sū and san, is name of an accouching goddess; the latter (for which are given three diverse but equally absurd etymologies) is another deity. The Anukr. apparently intends the verse to be read as 6 + 8: 7 + 8 = 29, instead of admitting the obvious resolution tu-ám in c. The supplying of gárbham as omitted at the beginning would make a good anuṣṭubh.

4. Not as it were stuck (ā́hata) in the flesh, not in the fat, not as it were in the marrows, let the spotted slimy (?) afterbirth come down, for the dog to eat; let the afterbirth descend.

5. I split apart thy urinator, apart the yóni, apart the [two] groins, apart both the mother and the child, apart the boy from the afterbirth; let the afterbirth descend.

6. As the wind, as the mind, as fly the birds, so do thou, O ten months' [child], fly along with the afterbirth; let the afterbirth descend.

Found also in Pāipp. i. It is reckoned (Kāuç. 26. 1, note) as belonging, with many other hymns, to a takmanāçana or takman-destroying gaṇa, and is used (26. 1) to accompany the drinking of various things in a healing ceremony (comm. says, against