33. For expulsion of yákṣma from all parts of the body.
[Brahman.—saptarcam. yakṣmavibarhaṇam; cāndramasam; āyuṣyam. ānuṣṭubham. 3. kakummatī; 4. 4-p. bhurig uṣṇih; 5. upariṣṭādvirāḍbṛhatī; 6. uṣṇiggarbhā nicṛdanuṣṭubh; 7. pathyāpan̄kti.]
Found in Pāipp. iv. Corresponds, with important variations, to most of RV. x. 163 (found also in MP., the mantra-text to ĀpGS.: see Winternitz, l.c., p. 99). ⌊Namely, our vss. 1, 2, 4 ab with 3 cd, and 5 correspond to MP. i. 17. 1, 2, 3, and 4: the MP. version follows most nearly that of RV.⌋ The hymn is called by Kāuç. (27. 27) vībarha (from vs. 7 d), and is prescribed in a healing ceremony; it is also reckoned (54. 11, note) to the āyuṣya gaṇa; but the comm. makes up an aṅholin̄ga gaṇa of it and iii. 11; iv. 13; v. 30; ix. 8, which is quite different from the one reported by Bloomfield from the gaṇamālā in note to Kāuç. 32. 27 ⌊on page 89, but agrees with the one reported in B's supplement, page 334, except that for i. 10. 4 should be put iii. 11. i⌋. It (or vs. i) is also employed by Vāit. (38. 1) in the puruṣamedha.
Translated: by the RV. translators; and Kuhn, KZ. xiii. 66 ff.; Weber, xiii. 205; Griffith, i. 74; Bloomfield, 44, 321.—Oldenberg compares critically the RV. and AV. versions, die Hymnen des RV., i. p. 243.
1. Forth from thy (two) eyes, (two) nostrils, (two) ears, chin, brain, tongue, I eject (vi-vṛh) for thee the yákṣma of the head.
The verse is RV. x. 163. i, without variant. Two or three of SPP's mss., with the comm., read in b cúbukāt; MP. has cibukāt ⌊in the Whish ms.⌋; Ppp. substitutes for it nāsyāt (i.e. āsyāt), has uta for ádhi, and has for d lalāṭād vi vayemasi.
2. From thy neck (grīvás), nape (uṣṇíhās), vertebræ (kī́kasā), backbone, (two) shoulders, (two) fore-arms, I eject for thee the yákṣma of the arms.
This, again, is precisely RV. x. 163. 2. Ppp. reads in b anūkyās, and in d urastas (for bāhubhyām) and vṛhāmasi. The pl. grīvā́s for 'neck' designates, according to the comm., the 14 small bones found there; and he quotes ÇB. xii. 2. 4. 10 for authority. The uṣṇíhās he declares to be certain vessels (nāḍī); the kī́kasās, to be jatruvakṣogatāsthīni, which is quite indefinite.
3. Forth from thy heart, lung (klomán), hálīkṣṇa, (two) sides, (two) mátasnas, spleen, liver, we eject for thee the yákṣma.
Weber conjectures "gall" for hálīkṣṇa (Ppp. hálīkṣma), and "kidney" for matasna. The comm. defines klomán as "a kind of flesh-mass in the neighborhood of the heart," halīkṣṇa as etatsaṁjñakāt tatsambandhān māṅsapiṇḑaviçeṣāt, and matasnābhyām as ubhayapārçvasambandhābhyāṁ vŗkyābhyāṁ tatsamīpasthapittādhārapātrābhyāṁ vā. For a, Ppp. has klomnas te hṛdayābhyo. Of this verse, only the latter half has a parallel in RV., namely x. 163. 3 c, d, where d is varied to yaknáḥ plāçíbhyo ví vṛhāmi te. The Anukr. foolishly rejects all resolution in b.
4. Forth from thine entrails, guts, rectum, belly, (two) paunches, plāçí, navel, I eject for thee the yákṣma.
