The AtharvavedaKarl J. Trübner, 1899 - 136 Seiten |
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Agni agnistoma AJPh amulet Angiras Angirasa anuṣṭubh anuvāka aśvamedha Atharva-Veda Atharvan Atharvan hymns Atharvan priests Atharvanist Avestan battle-charms bhrgu BLOOMFIELD Brahman Brahman-priest Brāhmaṇa Bṛhaspati character charms connection dakṣiņā demons derived designate DEUSSEN dharma-texts disease divine enemies especially formulas fourth Veda frequently gods Gṛhya-sūtras havis hemistich hieratic HILLEBRANDT Hindu holy hymns ibid independent Index Indra Introd JAOS Kaschmir Kaus Kausika king later legend literature liturgic mantras mentioned metre metrical OLDENBERG original pāda Paippalada Parisiṣṭas passage popular practices Prajapati Prapaṭhaka pratika prayaścitta prayer present Purohita recited redaction Rig-Veda rites ritual Ritual-Litteratur ritualistic Rohita ROTH sacrifice śākhās Samhita sattra Saunaka Saunakiya Savitar secondary seems so-called sorcery SPAW śrauta Srauta-texts śruti stanzas statement Sūtra texts theme theosophic tradition translation trayī Upanisads uttara Vait variants Veda Vedic Verz WEBER word XLII XVII Yajus ZIMMER
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Seite 25 - Brahmawas, prosper and do not fall into distress.' 15. He shall, also, take heed of that which astrologers and interpreters of omens tell (him). 1 6. For some (declare), that the acquisition of wealth and security depend also upon that.
Seite 70 - O herb : turn this man for me to-day into a eunuch that wears his hair dressed ! 2. Turn him into a eunuch that wears his hair dressed, and into one that wears a hood ! Then Indra with a pair of stones shall break his testicles both! 3. O eunuch, into a eunuch thee I have turned ; O castrate, into a castrate thee I have turned ; O weakling, into a weakling thee I have turned ! A hood upon his head, and a hair-net do we place.
Seite 92 - Atharvaveda' S. 91 fl. unternommen worden ist. Dieser Gelehrte äussert sich ua so: ,. . . it is not too much to say that the Atharvans knew and practised soma-rites prior to the redaction of the samhitä. Whether this was carried on in the spirit and with the equiprnent of the Vedic schools of the trayi or with some more elementary form that did, above all, not require a variety of priests, can hardly be discerned'.
Seite 72 - Unity of heart, and unity of mind, freedom from hatred, do I procure for you. Do ye take delight in one another, as a cow in her (new-) born calf! 2. The son shall be devoted to his father, be of the same mind with his mother; the wife shall speak honied, sweet, words to her husband! 3. The brother shall not hate the brother, and the sister not the sister! Harmonious, devoted to the same purpose, speak ye words in kindly spirit!
Seite 70 - ATHARVA-VEDA. •Ill, 25. Charm to arouse the passionate love of a woman. 1. May (love), the disquieter, disquiet thee; do not hold out upon thy bed ! With the terrible arrow of Kama (love) do I pierce thee in the heart. 2. The arrow, winged with longing, barbed with love, whose shaft is undeviating desire, with that, well-aimed, Kama shall pierce thee in the heart ! 3. With that well-aimed arrow of Kama which parches the spleen, whose plume flies forward, which burns up, do I pierce thee in the...
Seite 77 - ... (to be) thy couch. 13. The tears which have rolled from (the eyes of) the oppressed (Brahman), as he laments, these very ones, O oppressor of Brahmans, the gods did assign to thee as thy share of water.
Seite 32 - ... conditio sine qua non, of the purohiti. Purohitas, whether they are formal adherents of the AV. or not, are always engaging in Atharvanic practices, even against one another (cf. Max Miiller, Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p. 486). The interests of the king and his sovereignty (kshatriya and kshatram) are too obviously dependent upon magic rites to admit the likelihood that the pretensions to this office on the part of him that knew them should have been ignored. At all periods the safety of the...
Seite 32 - IV, 50, 7 ff. the activity of a purohita is sketched: the purohita, however, is called br/haspati («= brahman). above all, in this, that they have in charge, each in his own way, the general interests of their noble employers, whereas other priests are likely ordinarily to have had only subordinate charges, because of the technical character of their knowledge and occupation. RV. X, 71, n expresses clearly the existence of broader theological interests than the mere knowledge of the recitation and...
Seite 25 - But incantations, sorceries, and love-charms do work injury, and the dharma-literature pronounces with no uncertain voice the judgment that the Atharvan, while useful and indispensable under certain circumstances, is on the whole inferior in character and ' position, that its practices are impure, and either stand in need of regulation, or must be prohibited by the proper punishments. The Atharvan is not mentioned very frequently either in the Dharma-sutras, the older metrical Dharma-jastras, or...
Seite 33 - In many cases the tribal king, or rajd, might have had but one bodypriest, well capable of attending to the kingdom's needs in all manner of charms and sorcery, and thus filling the paurohitya creditably with the entire armament of the Veda of charms and sorcery, himself an Atharvavedin.