Satapatha Bramhana Part 03

SR No.: 007679
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 2382
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

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V, 22. COMMENTARY.
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purplish hue with a copious bloody discharge accompanied with burning and itching. In the AV. the word is ån. dey. The schol. at Sat. Br. III, 2, 1, 31 renders påmá by vikarkikå, 'scurf, eruption.'
Stanza 13. 8. Zimmer, 1. C., 382, suggests upon rather slender evidence another explanation of trltîyaka, 'he who produces death after the third paroxysm.' Sâyana at AV. XIX, 39, 10 comments upon the traditional text sîrshalokám tritîyakam (which Roth and Whitney have emended in their edition to sîrshasokám trítîyakam), with the result, “Thy head (O kushtha-plant) is in the third heaven,' thus omitting an opportunity to tell us what tritîyaka is. At I, 25, 4, however, he has, tritiyadivase ágakkhate. Without doubt the takman tritîyaka is identical with gvara tritîyaka, Susruta II, 404, 7; 405, 14, tritîyakas tritîyeshni (pravartate), i.e. the rhythmus tertianus. Wise, l. c., p. 232, says, rather obscurely, 'When the fever returns at an interval of one day it is called Tritiyaka.'-vitritiya is ån. dey. and not altogether clear. Grohmann, l. c., p. 388, regards this as equivalent to the tertiana duplicata, consisting of daily attacks which, however, correspond in every other day as regards the time of day in which they take place, or as regards their intensity. But vitritîyá translated philologically means 'leaving aside the third day,' and there is no evidence to connect it with the tertiana duplicata. According to our construction the vitritîya would appear to be identical with the takmán of whom it is said, yo ... ubhayadyúr abhyéti, I, 25, 4 (see the note there), and VII, 116, 2.
b. sadamdi is probably the equivalent of the samtatagvara, or satata-gvara (Wise, 1. C., 231), a kind of fever which continues without interruption for a longer period, seven, ten, or twelve days, is then followed by an interval, and again occurs and remains for several days. Sayana at AV. XIX, 39, 10 blunderingly refers sadamdi to the kushthaplant, and renders it by sada rogânâm khandayita, 'the constant crusher of diseases.' He has in mind no doubt
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