Contr!l)!itioiis from the Jaiuiiuiya Bnilunaua. 191 



5. trir nirasthi vat : Cf. CB. v. 5. 4. 10. — tad vat prathamam . . . kvalam : 

 Almost verbatim so MS. ii. 4. 1 (p. 38, 12) and Kath. xii. 10 (p. 172, 

 17). ^B. xii. 7. 1. 2-4 produces the kuvala, badara, and karkandhu 

 from the moisture of the eyes (tears), nostrils, and mouth, respect- 

 ively. In CB. V. 5. 4. 10 the order is kuvala, karkandhu, badara. 



6. khatkrt3-a : This, possibly, is the passage which the scholiast on 

 Panini i. 4. 62 had in mind and quotes : • khatkrtya (with dental t) 

 nirasthi vat,' just as he quotes from memory and with a slight change 

 the introductory words of the Dirghajihvl-legend (AB. ii. 22. 10 ; 

 MS. iii. 10. 6, p. 138, 5; Kath. xxix. 1) to Panini, iv. 1. 59 {Ades du 

 oiizieme Congres Ititcniatioiial (ks Orientalistcs, Paris 1897, vol. i. 

 1899, p. 232). 



7—9 tam evaiii . . . jive "ti : Whitney reported this passage in the 

 Proceedings of the American Oriental Society for May, 1885 [J A OS., 

 xiii, p. xxj in connexion w-ith H. C. Warren's paper ' On superstit- 

 ious customs connected with sneezing ' which quoted the Jataka 

 story 1 no. 155 ' Gagga-Jataka ' (Fausboll, ii, p. 15). In this story the 

 goblin who haunts the hut has received from the demon Vessavana 

 permission to kill and eat any man who entered the hut and sneezed 

 unless someone should wish him ' Long life ' and he should reply 

 • The same to you.' W' arren also referred to the similar tale in the 

 Kathasaritsagara2 (vi. 28. 128 ff., p. 19 of Brockhaus' edition, Leipzig, 

 1862) ' The fourth [voice] said : " If he escape this also, when he 

 enters that night into his private apartments he shall sneeze a hun- 

 dred times ; and if some one there does not a hundred times say to 

 him ' God bless you ' he shall fall into the grasp of death." ' 3 That 

 the devil gains power of a person who sneezes unless God is invo- 

 ked to avert the danger seems to be a widespread belief. Cf., e. g., 

 Helene Raffs Bavarian tale (ZL d. Vcrcifis fi'ir Volkskundc, viii, 1898, 

 p. 395) : ' vSo wurde eine junge Bauernmagd an der bayrisch-t3'roli- 

 schen Grenze nur durch das zugerufene " Helf Gott " eines Mit- 

 knechtes aus den Klauen des Teufels errettet, welche dieser, wah- 

 rend sie nieste, nach ihr ausgestreckt hatte ' ; the Icelandic super- 

 stition (Lehmann-Filhes, Zt. d. Vereins f. Volkskunde, viii, 1898, p. 154 

 and p. 448) that the Black Death was stayed by the invocation of 



* See W. H. D. Rouse's Translation, vol. ii, p. 11—13; Eouse notes that 

 tlie introductory stor^' is repeated in the Cullavagga. v. 33. 



- See C. H. Tawney's Translation, vol. i, p. 254, and the additional 

 notes, vol. i, p. 576 and vol. Ii, p. 631. 



^ Cf . also W. Crooke, The Popular ReIigio)i and Folk-Lore of Xorthern India.^ 

 1896, i, p. 240-241. 



