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.
