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Rishi: Atharvanic healer tradition (anonymous/collective)
Devata: Sūrya and Candramas (as healers); disease-personification (Apaciti) as target
Chandas: Mixed/Anuṣṭubh tendency (AV healing verses often anuṣṭubh; first segment includes an exclamatory heading)
この短いバイシャジャ(治療)讃歌は、衰耗の病アパチティ(Apaciti)を、その座から「飛び去らせる」ことで追放し、太陽と月の治癒力を回復の対抗力として確立する。働きは(1)病を追い立てられる鳥として描く鮮烈な放逐のイメージ、(2)再発を防ぐため複数の病因・病霊を名指して退散させること、(3)供献(献供)の定型句で行為を封印し、儀礼の効験を保証すること、の三点によって成り立つ。
Mantra 1
भैषज्यम्। अप॑चितः॒ प्र प॑तत सुप॒र्णो व॑स॒तेरि॑व । सूर्यः॑ कृ॒णोतु॑ भेष॒जं च॒न्द्रमा॒ वोऽपो॑च्छतु
薬(治療)あれ。消耗の病よ、飛び去れ——住み処から飛び立つ美しい翼の鳥のように。太陽よ、この薬を成就せよ。月よ、それを汝らから払い清めよ。
Mantra 2
एन्येका॒ श्येन्येका॑ कृ॒ष्णैका॒ रोहि॑णी॒ द्वे। सर्वा॑सामग्रभं॒ नामावी॑रघ्नी॒रपे॑तन
一つはEṇī、 一つはŚyenī、 一つはKṛṣṇā、 そして二つはRohiṇī。彼女らすべての名を、われは把握した——勇士を害さぬものよ——去れ、退け。
Mantra 3
अ॒सूति॑का रामाय॒ण्यऽप॒चित् प्र प॑तिष्यति । ग्लरि॒तः प्र प॑तिष्यति॒ स ग॑लु॒न्तो न॑शिष्यति
Asūtikā、Rāmāyaṇī——消耗の病——は飛び去るであろう。Glaritaも飛び去るであろう。そのうちGaluntaは、後に残らぬ。
Mantra 4
वी॒हि स्वामाहु॑तिं जुषा॒णो मन॑सा॒ स्वाहा॒ मन॑सा॒ यदि॒दं जु॒होमि॑
汝みずからの供物をここへ運べ、これを喜び受けよ。心をもって――svāhā!――心をもって、われがここに捧ぐるこの供えを。
Apaciti is a personified wasting or consuming sickness. The hymn treats it as an agent that can be commanded to depart from its ‘dwelling’ in the patient.
They represent complementary cosmic medicines: the Sun as restoring, vitalizing power and the Moon as cleansing, cooling removal of affliction. Together they enact both expulsion and recovery.
It functions as a ritual seal: the offering is mentally and verbally confirmed as accepted, so the healing action is ‘made effective’ and stabilized against return of the illness.
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