Mr. C. P. Brown's Tdugu Spells. 03 



delightest in red sandal, long-tongued, goddess of ghosts, 

 and mighty in words ! O devour, devour my foe ! 

 Hum! phat ! Svahal" 



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 Ganeca. I salute the great Bhagavatf, 

 queen of magic. [Here the first paragraph is repeated.] 



" I worship the Par 'aiyan Goddess who delights in flesh 

 and blood, the dreadful Kateri^a/ Eat! Eat! I hail the 

 awful god Rudraffr,)." 



[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, minumulufc^ fcc. 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) 'A forest-goddess whose power lies in inflicting diari hcea. 5 

 Brown's Telugu Dictionary. — Ed. 



{h) One of the names for Civa, [Rudra, with whose name Benfey 

 (Griechisches AYurzellexicon II, G) ingeniously connects Xvpa for 

 XvSpa=rtidrd, appears in the Yedas to be identical with Apollo. Both 

 gods bear the bow. Rudra knows a thousand medicines, and is the best 

 of leeches. Apollo is called aKe'crios, aKecrrtop etc., and is father of 

 Asklepios. Rudra fares through storm and clouds, aud has his hair there- 

 fore made up in a mighty knot, whence lie is called kapardin in the Kig 

 Yeda, 1,114,1,5 'lie who hath "his hair wound into the form of a shell* 

 (kaparda * cypraea moneta') Bohtlingk-Roth, II, 62. So ITomer II. 20, 

 39 calls Apollo &KepcreK6fj.7)<;, and artists represented him with long, strong 

 hair bound behind into a knot. As Rudra is called vanlcn, ' tortuose 

 incedens' as god of the eddying storm, so Apollo is AoEias (from Xo$6s 

 obliquus) — which has nothing to do with the ambiguity of his orates. 

 As Apollo had a sister Artemis, so Rudra had Ambika. Apollo was 

 called Smintheus (II. 1, 39) from ajxivOos 'mouse', and was represented 

 by the sculptor Skopas with a mouse at his feet. The mouse (akliu or 

 mush, p.v<; y uiushika) was sacred to Rudra. See Kuhn, Zeitschrift fur 

 vergleichende Sprachforschuug, III, 335, Kuhn, Herabkunft des Feuers, 

 202. Pictet, Origines indoeuropeennes, II, 176. — Ed.~] 



(c) A kind of bean grown on dry lands (Thascclus Muiigo)— IYjlsox, 



