Mr. C. P. B&own's Telugu Spells. 



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

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

 Hum!phat! SvaM !" 



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 Bhagavat^ 

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



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

 and blood, the dreadful Katerifa,), Eat! Eat! I hail the 

 awful god Rudraf^." 



[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, minumuluf c ) Szc. 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 clian hcea. s 

 Brown's Telugu Dictionary. — £d. 



(b) One of the names for £iva. [Rudra, with whose name Benfey 

 (Griechisches Wurzellexicon II, C) ingeniously connects Xvpa for 

 \vhpa=mdrd, appears in the Vedas to be identical with Apollo. Both 

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

 of leeches. Apollo is called a/ct'crios, aKearcop 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 Tcapardin in the Big 

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

 {haparda 1 cypraea moneta') Bohllingk-Roth, II, 62. So Homer II. 20, 

 39 calls Apollo aKepcreK^/x^?, and artists represented him with long, strong 

 hair bound behind into a knot. As Itudra is called vanku, ' tort nose 

 incedens' as god of the eddying storm, so Apollo is Ao£fas (from Ao^s 

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

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

 called Smintheiis (II. J , 39) from afxivOos ' mouse', and was represented 

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

 mush, fids, mushik&) was sacred to Rudra. See Kuhn, Zeitschrift fur 

 vergleichende Spraehforschung, 111, 335, Kuhn, Herabkunft des FeueiSj 

 202. Pictet, Origines indoeuropeennes, II, 476.— Ed.~\ 



(c) A kind of bean grown on dry lands (Phaseoks Mungo) — Wilson^ 



