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drive away bad luck, the celebrant throws his black garment
into waters, ties a nail of iron (black metal) to the left
leg of a crow and allows that black bird to fly away (Kaus.
18.4-16). Similarly, the tongues of talking birds are used
as amulet for the sake of medhajanana (Kaus. 10.2).
Jaundice
is cured by feeding the patient with rice cooked with
termeric, by applying that rice all over his body, and by
tying yellow birds with yellow threads to his bed-stead
(Kaus. 26.18).
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The action-symbolism is indicated by the magician-
priest banishing takman to the distant lands (AV V.22).
Kaus. 36.27 we find that fever is cured by giving to the
person water in which red hot axe is immersed. The action-
symbolism becomes more clear in the treatment of takman given
in Kaus. 29.18-19. (The priest) gives (the patient) gruel
made of roasted grain to drink. The dregs (of the gruel) he
pours from a copper-vessel over the head (of the patient) into
fire derived from a forest fire.' "The treatment is intense-
ly symbolical, being based upon attractio similium, with a
touch of homeopathy. The roasted grain represents heat and
therefore fever; the copper vessel (lohitapatra), with the
other meaning of lohita, 'red', in mind, again suggests heat
and fever, and the forest-fire, d膩v膩gni, figures in preference
to ordinary fire because it is occasioned by lightning, and
lightning is conceived as the cause of fever and its related
diseases. #66
It may also be noted that at Kaus. 25.14, n
66. Bloomfield, SBE 42, p. 443.