Mil. C. P. Brown's Telugu SpelU. |l 



cklightest in red sandal, long-tongued, goddess of .ghosts* 

 &nd mighty in words ! O devour, devour my foe ! 

 Hum! phat ! Svaha!" 



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 Bhagavati, 

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



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

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

 awful god Kudra^6/" 



[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, minumum/ c ) &c. and mix them with rice, take a 

 handful and make them into a paste with running watery 

 and of this paste make an image. This you must place in 



(a) *A forest-goddess whose power lies in inflicting dian hcea.* 

 Brown's 'f elugn Dictionary. — Ed. 



(b) One of the names for Qiva. [Rudra, with whose name Benfej 

 (Griechisches Wurzellexicon II, 6) ingeniously connects kvpa for 

 XvSpa—rttdrd, 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 aKt'crios, aKe&Tuip etc., and is father of 

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

 fore made up in a mighty knot, whence he is called kapardin in the Big 

 Veda, 1,114,1,5 'he who hath his hair wound into the form of a shell* 

 (haparda ' cypraea moneta') Bohtlingk-Roth, II, 62. So Homer II. 20, 

 39 calls Apollo afcepcreK^/^s, and artists represented him with long, strong 

 hair bound behind into a knot. As Iludra is called vanku, ' tortuoso 

 incedens' as god of the eddying storm, so Apollo is Ao£fa? (from Xo£6<s 

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

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

 called Smintheus (II. 1> 39) from &fjilvdo<s 'mouse', and was represented 

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

 mush, fxvs, mushikaj was sacred to Rudra. See Kuhn, Zeitschrift fur 

 vergleichende Sprachforschung, 111, 335, Kuhn, Herabkunft des PeuerSj, 

 202. Piclet, Origines indoeuropeennes, II, 476.— Ed.'] 



(c) A kind of bean grown on drylands (Phaseolus Mungo) — Wilson* 



