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# Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book VI/Hymn 22

22. To the Maruts.
[Çaṁtāti.—ādityaraçmidevatya[m]. mārutam. trāiṣṭubham: 2. 4-p. bhurigjagatī.]
Found also in Pāipp. xix. Used by Kāuç. (30. 11) in a remedial rite against protuberant belly etc. Keç. and the comm. read further in the rule the pratīka sasruṣīs of hymn 23, and detail a second lengthy process in the same rite as performed with the two. Hymns 22-24 are also explained as among the apāṁ sūktāni (7. 14 and note). In Vāit. (9. 5) this hymn appears in the cāturmāsya sacrifice as addressed to the playing (krīḍin) Maruts.
Translated: Ludwig, p. 463 ⌊vss. 1-2⌋; Florenz, 276 or 28; Griffith, i. 256.
1. Black the down-track, the yellow eagles, clothing themselves in waters, fly up to the sky; they have come hither from the seat of righteousness (ṛtá); then, forsooth, with ghee they deluged the earth.
The verse comes from the mystic and obscure hymn RV. i. 164 (vs. 47), and is found again twice below (ix. 10. 22, which see; xiii. 3. 9). It is also found in several of the Black Yajus texts: TS. (iii. 1. 11$^4$), MS. (iv. 12. 5), K. (xi. 9, 13). RV.MS. end with pṛthivī́ vy ùdyate; TS. has ásitavarṇās (for kṛṣṇā́ṁ niyā́nam) in a, míhas (for apás) in b, sádanāni kṛtvā́ in c, and, for d, ā́d ít pṛthivī́ ghṛtāír vy ùdyate. Ppp. agrees with RV.MS. at the end of the verse, and it combines, in its frequent way, suparṇā ’po.
2. Ye make the waters rich in milk, the herbs propitious, when ye bestir yourselves, O golden-backed Maruts; do ye lavish (pinv) both sustenance and good-will there, where, O manly Maruts, ye pour honey.
The first, third, and fourth pādas are found as b, c, d of a verse in TS. iii. 1. 11$^8$; TS. reads kṛṇuta (as does also Ppp.), and it omits çivā́s; it also has, with the comm., pinvatha in c (which is better). Ppp. further reads yamās for çivās, and ejati for -thā; ⌊and siñcatā for -thā⌋.
3. Water-swimming [are] the Maruts; send ye that rain which shall fill all the hollows; the gláhā shall bestir itself, like a girl that is thrust, thrusting the éru, like wife with husband.
# Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book VI/Hymn 23

23. To the waters: for blessings.
[Çaṁtāti (?)—abdevatyam. ānuṣṭubham: 2. 3-p. gāyatrī; 3. paroṣṇih.]
Found also in Pāipp. xix. Reckoned by Kāuç. (9. 2) to the bṛhachānti gaṇa, and also (note to 7. 14) to the apāṁ sūktāni; and again (41. 14), with vi. 19 etc., used in a rite for good fortune: as to its combination (30. 11) with the preceding hymn, see that hymn. In Vāit. (4. 14) it accompanies in the parvan sacrifices the pouring out of water.
Translated: Ludwig, p. 431; Florenz, 278 or 30; Griffith, i. 257.
1. Flowing on, devoted to it; by day and by night flowing on; I, of desirable activity, call upon the heavenly waters.
The verse is found as a khila or appendix to RV. x. 9, as vs. 10 of that hymn. It reads there, in a, tádapasas, which is an obvious and called-for emendation of our text, and assumed in our translation; in c, -kratūs, which is also an improvement (our P. has it, but apparently only by an accident); and, for d, ā́ devī́r ávase huve. Ppp. has, for d, ahūpo devīr upa bruve. The first pāda lacks a syllable, unless we resolve sa-sṛ-u-.
2. Let them release here the worked-in waters of the ceremony for conducting forward; let them at once make [them] to go.
The translation implies emendation of ā́pas in a to apás, or else the use of the former as accusative, as in more than one other passage. Ótās, lit. 'woven in': i.e. brought in as part of the ceremony. But the comm. reads ūtās, and explains it as = saṁtatās or avicchedena pravahantyaḥ. ⌊In a, b, the reading of Ppp. appears to be like ours; but in c it has bhavantu etave.⌋ ⌊Cf. v. 23. 1 for ótās.⌋
​ 3. In the impulse (savá) of the divine impeller (savitár) let men do their [sacred] work; weal to us be the waters, the herbs propitious.
Ppp. reads kṛṇvanti in b. Here, to preserve the balance of forms, apás has to be understood as nominative.
# Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book VI/Hymn 25

25. For relief from pains (?) in neck and shoulders.
[Çunaḥçepa.—mantroktamanyā[di]vināçanadevatyam. ānuṣṭubham.]
Found also in Pāipp. xix. Used in Kāuç. (30. 14) in a healing rite against gaṇḍamālās, with kindling fifty-five paraçu (comm., -çū) leaves by chips.
Translated: Kuhn, KZ. xiii. 130 (with Germanic parallels); Florenz, 280 or 32; Griffith, i. 258; Bloomfield, 19, 472 (cf. AJP. xi. 323).
1. Both the five and the fifty that gather against those of the nape—let them all disappear from here, like the noises (? vāká) of the apacíts.
Mányās etc. may of course as well be nom., and the comm. so understands them, supplying gaṇḍamālās 'pimples, swellings' for them to agree with; abhí would then be left without object, or with indefinite object, 'one,' understood. The comm. renders vākā́s by vacanīyā doṣāḥ, and takes apacítām as accus. fem. pple: "as blameworthy faults leave an honored woman"! Under VS. xvii. 57, the comm. renders vākā́s by vākyāni.
2. Both the seven and the seventy that gather against those of the neck—let them all etc. etc.
Part of the mss. (including our D.R.) accent saptá at the beginning, and SPP. with good reason adopts that in his text.
3. Both the nine and the ninety that gather against those of the shoulders—let them all etc. etc.
Ppp., in these verses, exchanges the numbers of 1 and 3, omits yās every time in a, and combines manyā ’bhi, grāivyā ’bhi, skandā ’bhi.
# Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book VI/Hymn 29

29. Against birds of ill omen.
[Bhṛgu.—yāmyam uta nāirṛtam. bārhatam: 1, 2. virāṇnāmagāyatrī; 3. 3-av. 7-p. virāḍaṣṭi.]
Not found in Pāipp. Used by Kāuç. (46. 7) with the two preceding hymns.
Translated: Florenz, 287 or 39; Griffith, i. 260; Bloomfield, 166, 475.
1. Them yonder let the winged missile come upon; what the owl utters, [be] that to no purpose, or that the dove makes its track (padá) at the fire.
The second and third pādas are RV. x. 165. 4 a, b (we had d in the last verse of the preceding hymn); RV. omits vā in c; its addition damages the meter of the pāda, but the Anukr. overlooks this. ⌊Pādas b, c also occur at MGS. ii. 17. 1 d—cf. under h. 27.⌋
2. Thy two messengers, O perdition, that come hither, not sent forth or sent forth, to our house—for the dove and owl be this no place.
The comm. reads etāu for etás in a; he renders ápadam by anāçrayabhūtam.
3. May it fly hither in order to non-destruction of heroes; may it settle (ā-sad) here in order to abundance of heroes; turned away, do thou speak away, toward a distant stretch (? saṁvát); so that in Yama's house they may look upon thee [as] sapless, may look upon [thee as] empty (ābhū́ka).
The sense would favor the accent ávāirahatya in a; and avīrahatyāyāi, which the comm. reads, would be a further improvement. The comm. also has papadyāt at end of a, and, for c, parām eva parāvatam. He explains ābhū́kam by āgatavantam. At the end of e, gṛhé ought, of course, to be gṛhè; but most of the mss. (all of ours that are noted) have gṛhé, and SPP. also has admitted it into his text. ⌊As to Yama's house, cf. Hillebrandt, Ved. Mythol., i. 512. For cā́kaçān, see Gram. §1008 b.⌋
# Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book VI/Hymn 20

20. Against fever (takmán).
[Bhṛgvan̄giras.—yakṣmanāçanadāivatam. 1. atijagatī; 2. kakummatī prastirāpan̄ktiḥ; 3. sataḥpan̄ktiḥ.]
Only the last verse is found in Pāipp., in book xiii. Appears in Kāuç. (30. 7) in a remedial rite for bilious fever, and is reckoned (note to 26. 1) to the takmanāçana gaṇa.
Translated: Grohmann, Ind. Stud. ix. 384, 393; Ludwig, p. 511; Zimmer, p. 380; Florenz, 273 or 25; Griffith, i. 255; Bloomfield, 3, 468.
1. Of him as of burning fire goeth the vehemence (?); likewise, as it were, shall he crying out go away from me; some other one than us let the ill-behaved one seek; homage be to the heat-weaponed fever.
The translation given implies the easy emendation of çuṣmíṇas to çúṣmas, which eases the meter,* and helps the sense out of a notable difficulty. The comm. and the translators understand (perhaps preferably) mattás in b as pple of mad, instead of quasi-ablative of the pronoun ma, as here rendered ("he flees, crying like a madman," R.). The comm. takes avratas as intended for an accusative, -tam. The verse is really a jagatī with one redundant syllable in a. *⌊The metrical difficulty is in the prior part of a; the cadence of a is equally good with çuṣmíṇas or with çúṣmas.⌋
2. Homage to Rudra, homage be to the fever, homage to king Varuṇa, the brilliant (tvíṣīmant), homage to the sky, homage to the earth, homage to the herbs.
The Anukr. scans the verse as 12 + 12: 9 + 6 = 39 syllables.
3. Thou here who, scorching greatly, dost make all forms yellow—to thee here, the ruddy, the brown, the woody takmán, do I pay homage.
Ppp. reads, in a, rūras for yas; its c, d are aruṇāya babhrave tapurmaghavāya namo ‘stu takmane. The comm. understands ványāya in d as gerundive of root van = saṁsevyāya: perhaps 'of the forest,' i.e., having no business in the village. The verse (9 + 11: 9 + 12) is too irregular for the metrical definition given ⌊cf. viii. 2. 21⌋.
The second anuvāka ends here, having 10 hymns and 32 verses, and the quotation from the old Anukr. is simply dvitīyāu, which ought to combine with the prathama of the first anuvāka—only one does not see how, as the two are not equal in number of verses.
# Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book VI/Hymn 28

28. Against birds of ill omen etc.
[Bhṛgu.—yāmyam uta nāirṛtam. trāiṣṭubham: 2. anuṣṭubh; 3. jagatī.]
All the verses found also in Pāipp., but not together; 1. occurs after the preceding hymn in xix.; 3. at a later point in xix.; 2. in x.; and there is no internal connection perceptible among them. Used by Kāuç., with the preceding and the following hymn, against birds of ill omen (46. 7); and vs. 2 is especially quoted as accompanying the leading of a cow [and] fire three times around the house. ⌊Vss. 1 and 3 occur at MGS. ii. 17. 1—see under h. 27.⌋
Translated: Florenz, 285 or 37; Griffith, i. 260.
1. With the praise-verse (ṛ́ç) drive ye the dove forth (praṇódam); reveling in food (íṣ) we lead a cow about, breaking up tracks hard to go in; leaving us (our ?) sustenance shall it fly forth, swift-flying.
Praṇódam, lit. 'with forth-driving,' a quasi gerundial cognate accusative. RV. (x. 165. 5) has nayadhvam at end of b, a better reading. In Ppp., b, c are omitted. For c, RV. has saṁyopáyanto duritā́ni víçvā. In d, both RV. and Ppp. (also the comm.) end with prá patāt pátiṣṭhaḥ, of which our reading can only be a corruption; páthiṣṭhaḥ (p. páthiṣṭhaḥ) indicates a confusion with pathi॰ṣṭhá ⌊the non-division and accent also point to pátiṣṭhaḥ as true reading⌋. ⌊Ppp. has hitvām for hitvā́ na.⌋
​ 2. These have taken fire about; these have led the cow about; they have gained themselves fame (çrávas) among the gods—who shall venture to attack them?
The RV. has the same verse at x. 155. 5 (also VS., xxxv. 18, precisely the same text with RV.), reading, for a, b, párī ’mé gā́m aneṣata páry agním ahṛṣata. Ppp. transposes a and b and reads pary agnim aharṣata (a false form). The arṣata of our text is plainly nothing but a corruption; and part of the mss. (including our P.M.W.I.) have instead ariṣata ⌊or arīṣata; K. riṣatu⌋.
3. He who first attained (ā-sad) the slope [of heaven], spying out the road for many, who is master of these bipeds, who of the quadrupeds—to that Yama, to death, be homage.
With the former half-verse is to be compared RV. x. 14. 1 a, b: pareyivā́ṅsam praváto mahī́r ánu b. p. anupaspaçānám (which is AV. xviii. 1. 49 a, b); d is the last pāda also of RV. x. 165. 4 (of which a, b are found here in 29. 1); c is nearly equal to RV. x. 121. 3 c (our iv. 2. 1 c; xiii. 3. 24 c). Ppp. follows RV. in c in putting īçe before asya (reading īçay asya). Our pada-text accents asyá: ī́çe; in RV. also asyá is accented. The verse lacks two syllables of being a full jagatī. ⌊Pischel discusses the verse, Ved. Stud. ii. 73: cf. 66.⌋ ⌊Ppp. has pravatāsasāda.⌋
# Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book VI/Hymn 27

27. Against birds of ill omen.
[Bhṛgu.—yāmyam uta nāirṛtam. jāgatam: 2. triṣṭubh.]
Found also in Pāipp. xix. With 28. 1 and 29. 1, it constitutes RV. x. 165. ⌊MGS. ii. 17. 1 a-e is made up of our vi. 27, parts of 29. 1 and 28.3, and 28. 1: see also the ​pratīkas in Knauer's Index.⌋ Hymns 27, 28, and 29 are employed together in Kāuç. (46. 7) against birds of ill omen (the comm. to AV. reads patatribhyas for patitebhyas of the edition of Kāuç.).
1. Seeking what, O gods, the sent dove, messenger of perdition, hath come hither, to it will we sing praises, make removal; weal be [it] to our bipeds, weal to our quadrupeds.
RV. has precisely the same text in this verse. Ppp. begins with devaṣ k-. Some of the mss. (including our P.M.W.T.) read níḥkṛtiṁ in c. The verse lacks two syllables of being a full jagatī.
2. Propitious to us be the sent dove, harmless, O gods, the hawk (çakuná) [sent] to our house; for let the inspired (vípra) Agni enjoy our oblation, let the winged missile avoid us.
Ppp. agrees with RV. in the better reading gṛhéṣu (for gṛháṁ naḥ) at end of b. ⌊One suspects that "hawk" may be too specific.⌋
3. May the winged missile not harm us; it maketh its track on the hearth, in the fire-holder; propitious be it unto our kine and men; let not the dove, O gods, injure us here.
The form āṣṭrī́ (p. āṣṭrī́ íti) is quoted under Prāt. i. 74 as an example of a locative in ī (pragṛhya); RV. has the less primitive form āṣṭryā́m; the comm. explains it by vyāptāyām araṇyānyām. For c, d, RV. has a slightly different text: çáṁ no góbhyaç ca púruṣebhyaç ca ’stu mā́ no hiṅsīd ihá devāḥ kapótah. The AV. version spoils the meter of c, but the Anukr. does not heed this.
# Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book VI/Hymn 21

21. To healing plants.
[Çaṁtāti.—cāndramasam. ānuṣṱubham.]
Found also in Pāipp. 1. Used by Kāuç. (30. 8) in a remedial rite for growth of hair.
Translated: Florenz, 275 or 27; Grill, 50, 160; Griffith, i. 256; Bloomfield, 30, 470.—See also Bergaigne-Henry, Manuel, p. 150.
1. These three earths (pṛthivī́) that there are—of them earth (bhū́mi) is the highest; from off their skin have I seized a remedy.
Ppp. elides the initial a of aham in c, and its d is sam u jagrabha bheṣajam. ⌊See Griffith's note.⌋
​2. Thou art the most excellent of remedies, the best of plants; as Soma, lord (? bhága) in the night-watches (yā́ma), like Varuṇa among the gods.
The comm. takes yāma in the sense here given (ahorātrabhāgeṣu sādhyeṣu), and Soma as 'moon,' which is doubtless true; but he renders bhagas by 'and the sun.' Ppp. exchanges the place of 'remedies' and 'plants,' and reads yajñas for somas in c. The Anukr. appears to authorize bhage ’va in c.
2. O ye wealthy (revánt) ones, doing no violence, desirous to bestow ye desire to bestow; both are ye hair-fasteners, and also hair-increasers.
Ppp. exchanges the place of -dṛṅhaṇīs and -vardhanīs, and reads the equivalent siṣāsantīs for siṣāsavas. Anādhṛṣyā́s in a would seem a better reading. The Anukr. overlooks the deficiency in a; insertion of sthā after revatīs would rectify it.
# Atharva-Veda Samhita/Book VI/Hymn 26

26. Against evil.
[Brahman.—pāpmadevatākam. ānuṣṭubham.]
Found also in Pāipp. xix. Used in Kāuç. (30. 17) in a healing rite against all diseases; and reckoned (note to 26. 1) to the takmanāçana gaṇa. The comm. finds it quoted also in the Nakṣ. K. (15), in a ceremony against nirṛti.
Translated: Florenz, 282 or 34; Griffith, i. 259; Bloomfield, 163, 473.
1. Let me go, O evil (pāpmán) being in control, mayest thou be gracious to us; set me uninjured in the world of the excellent, O evil.
All the mss. leave pāpman unaccented at beginning of d, and SPP. follows them. The second pāda occurred above as v. 22. 9 b. Ppp. rectifies the defective meter of c, by reading ā mā bhadreṣu dhāmasv atve dh-. The comm. gives sam instead of san in b. The Anukr. overlooks the deficiency of two syllables.
2. Thou who, O evil, dost not leave us, thee here do we leave; along at the turning apart of the ways, let evil go after another.
The comm. understands anuvyāvartane as one word in c. Ppp- exchanges the place of 2 c, d and 3 a, b, reading, for the former, patho vya vyāvartane niṣ pāpmā tvaṁ suvāmasi; ⌊and it has mā for naḥ in a⌋.
3. Elsewhere than [with] us let the thousand-eyed immortal one make its home; whomsoever we may hate, him let it come upon (ṛch); and whom we hate, just him do thou smite.
Ppp., as above noted, has the first half of this verse as its 2 c, d, reading corruptly nyucya for ny ucyatu; its version of c, d is yo no dveṣṭi taṁ gacha yaṁ dviṣmas taṁ jahi. The comm. renders ny ucyatu by nitarāṁ gacchatu.
# April 9 Red Sea Update (CENTCOM)

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# April Rain

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# April Song (Teasdale)

* Teasdale, Sara (1915), "April Song" in Rivers to the Sea.
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# April 8 Red Sea Update (CENTCOM)

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April 8 Red Sea Update
Between approximately 12:15 p.m. and 2:40 p.m. (Sanaa time) on April 8, United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) forces successfully engaged and destroyed an air defense system with two missiles ready to launch, a ground control station in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, and one unmanned aerial system launched by Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists from Yemen over the Red Sea. There were no injuries or damage reported by U.S., coalition, or commercial ships.
Separately, at approximately 8:00 a.m. (Sanaa time) on April 7, an anti-ship ballistic missile was launched from a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen toward the Gulf of Aden where a coalition ship was escorting M/V Hope Island, a Marshall Islands Flagged, U.K. owned, Italian operated cargo ship. There were no injuries or damage reported by U.S., coalition, or commercial ships.
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# April Showers (1921, sheet music)

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Popular song introduced by Al Jolson in the 1921 musical Bombo.
[Verse]
    Life is not a highway strewn with flowers,
    Still it holds a goodly share of bliss;
    When the sun gives way to April showers,
    Here's the point that you should never miss.
[Refrain]
    Though April showers may come your way,
    They bring the flowers that bloom in May.
    So if it's raining, have no regrets,
    Because it isn't raining rain you know, it's raining violets.
    And where you see clouds upon the hills,
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    So keep on looking for a blue bird and list'ning for his song,
    Whenever April showers come along.
[Verse]
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    Smile although my heart's about to break;
    When I know that trouble's coming to me,
    Here's the happy attitude I take.
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# Beasts and Super-Beasts

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“The Open Window,” “The Schartz-Metterklume Method,” and “Clovis on Parental Responsibilities,” originally appeared in the Westminster Gazette, “The Elk” in the Bystander, and the remaining stories in the Morning Post. To the Editors of these papers I am indebted for their courtesy in allowing me to reprint them.
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* The She-Wolf
* Laura
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* The Brogue
* The Hen
* The Open Window
* The Treasure-Ship
* The Cobweb
* The Lull
* The Unkindest Blow
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* The Seventh Pullet
* The Blind Spot
* Dusk
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* The Feast of Nemesis
* The Dreamer
* The Quince Tree
* The Forbidden Buzzards
* The Stake
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* A Holiday Task
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# Beau Geste/Part 2

Part II
THE MYSTERY OF THE "BLUE WATER"
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# Beau Geste

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An adventure novel, which details the adventures of three English brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from the country house of a relative. The novel is set in the period before World War I. It has been adapted for the screen several times.
BEAU GESTE
BY
PERCIVAL CHRISTOPHER WREN
LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
* CONTENTS
* PART I.
* MAJOR HENRI DE BEAUJOLAIS' STORY
* chapterpage
* I. Of the Strange Events at Zinderneuf 9
* II. George Lawrence takes the Story to Lady Brandon at Brandon Abbas 69
* PART II.
* THE MYSTERY OF THE "BLUE WATER"
* I. Beau Geste and his Band 83
* II. The Disappearance of the "Blue Water" 99
* III. The Gay Romantics 154
* IV. The Desert 249
* V. The Fort at Zinderneuf 259
* VI. A "Viking's Funeral" 342
* VII. Ishmaelites 384
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# Beau Geste/Part 1

Part I
MAJOR HENRI DE BEAUJOLAIS' STORY