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211 note to i. 19. 4⌋), against the great majority of his mss. as well as all of ours; instead of it the comm. has durhatān.

10. Let perdition halter him, as a horse with a horse-halter (-abhi-dhā́nī); the fool (malvá) that is angry at me, he is not loosed from the fetter.

1. By thee of old the Atharvans slew the demons, O herb; by thee did Kaçyapa slay; by thee Kaṇva, Agastya.

2. By thee do we expel (cat) the Apsarases, the Gandharvas; O goat-horned one, drive the demon; make all disappear by [thy] smell.

3. Let the Apsarases go to the stream, to the loud (?) down-blowing of the waters: Guggulū, Pīlā, Naladī, Āukṣagandhi, Pramandanī: so go away, ye Apsarases; ye have been recognized.

⌊See Weber's note and reference to Rumpelstilzchen.⌋ Tārá in b is rendered "crossing"; but as this sense is found nowhere else, it seems safer to take the word as the adjective, common later; the comm. glosses it with tārayitāram, a worthless etymological guess. After it, instead of avaçvasam, the comm. reads iva svasam (= suṣṭhu nāupreraṇakuçalaṁ yathā), and, strangely enough, Ppp. has the same. As everywhere else where the word occurs, the mss. vary between gulgulu and guggulu, and SPP. reads the former and our edition the latter; here the decided majority, with Ppp. and the comm., give gulg- (our Bp.H.K. have gugg-). Pādas c and d appear to be made up of names of Apsarases, all formed upon odor-names: guggulū́ is fem. to gúggulu 'bdellium,' and naladī́ to nálada 'nard'; pramandanī́ is related with pramanda 'a certain fragrant plant'; and āukṣágandhi means something like 'ox-smell'; but the