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Indexes and other Auxiliary Matter
Second Grand Division.—Books VIII.-XII.
Five books of long hymns (45) of miscellaneous subjects
VIII. Book the eight | ||
1 | For some one's continued life | 472 |
2 | To prolong some one's life | 476 |
3 | To Agni: against sorcerers and demons | 481 |
4 | Against sorcerers and demons: to Indra and Soma | 486 |
5 | Against withcraft etc.: with an amulet | 490 |
6 | To guard a pregnant woman from demons | 493 |
7 | To the plants: for some one's restoration to health | 498 |
8 | To conquer enemies | 502 |
9 | Mystic: extolling the virā́j | 507 |
10 | Extolling the virā́j (first paryāya-hymn, with 6 paryāyas) | 511
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IX. Book the ninth | ||
1 | To the honey-whip etc | 517 |
2 | To Kāma: for various blessings | 521 |
3 | To accompany the releasing of a house | 525 |
4 | Accompanying the gift of a bull | 529 |
5 | With the offering of a goat and five rice-dishes | 533 |
6 | Exalting the entertainment of guests (second paryāya-hymn, with 6 paryāyas) | 539 |
7 | Extolling the ox (third paryāya-hymn, with 1 paryāya) | 547 |
8 | Against various diseases | 549 |
9 | Mystic | 552 |
10 | Mystic | 556
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X. Book the tenth | ||
1 | Against witchcraft and its practisers | 562 |
2 | The wonderful structure of man | 567 |
3 | With an amulet of varaṇá | 572 |
4 | Against snakes and their poison | 575 |
5 | Preparation and use of water-thunderbolts (largely prose) | 579 |
6 | With an amulet | 585 |
7 | Mystic: on the skambhá or frame of creation | 589 |
8 | Mystic | 595 |
9 | With the offering of a cow and a hundred rice-dishes | 602 |
10 | Extolling the cow (vaçā́) | 605
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XI. Book the eleventh | ||
1 | Accompanying a rice-dish offering | 612 |
2 | To Rudra, especially as Bhava and Çarva | 620 |
3 | Extolling the rice-dish (odaná) (fourth paryāya-hymn, with 3 paryāyas) | 625 |
4 | Extolling the breath (prāṇá) | 632 |
5 | Extolling the Vedic student (brahmacārín) | 636 |
6 | To many different gods: for relief | 640 |
7 | Extolling the remnant (úcchiṣṭa) of the offering | 643 |
8 | Mystic: especially on the constitution of man | 647 |
9 | To conquer enemies: to Arbudi | 651 |
10 | To conquer enemies: to Trishandhi | 655
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XII. Book the twelfth | ||
1 | To the earth | 660 |
2 | The flesh-eating and the householder's fires | 672 |
3 | Cremation as a sacrifice | 682 |
4 | The cow (vaçā́) as belonging exclusively to the Brahmans | 693 |
5 | The Brahman's cow (fifth paryāya-hymn, with 7 paryāyas) | 701 |