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31 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK I. -1. 31
4. Whose are the fore-offerings and whose the after-offerings ; the
gods that share the oblation and that eat what is not made oblation of ;
you among whom the five directions are shared out — you do I make
sitters at the session (sattrd-) of this man.
Ppp. reads in d tan no 'smai satrasadhah k-. The comm. explains ahutadas as
baliharatiadidevds J in satira he sees nothing more than simple sadana. Both editions
read satra-, in accordance with universal manuscript usage.
31. To the divine guardians of the quarters.
\Brahman. — Sfdpdliyavi, vdstospatyam. dnustubham : j. virdttristubh ;
4. pardnustuptristtibh^
Found in Paipp. i. The hymn is called in Kauq. (38. 11) a^apaltyam, and is also
reckoned by the schol. (8.23, note) to the vastospatiyani or vdstu gatia. It is used
with xii. I in the ceremony (38. 16) for establishing a house, and again, except vs. 3, as
drhhatiani
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establishers ' in a like rite (38. 11); it appears in one of the jaz/a-sacrifices
(64. i) with an offering of four dishes (catuhqaravd), and in the portent ceremony
(127. 6) against obscuration of the " Seven Sages" (the Dipper, or Charles's Wain) by
a comet. Verse 2 (32. 27, note ; but the comm. says instead vs. r, quoting its pratika)
is reckoned among the anholihgas, and applied in rites for healing, security, long life,
etc. ;
and vs. 4 (50. 11) in one for good fortune in the night. In Vait. (36. 20) the
hymn (as a(dpaliya) accompanies in the afva?>tedha the turning loose of the sacrificial
horse. And the comm. quotes it as used in Naks. Kalpa 14 in the adbhuta mahai;anti.
Translated : Weber, iv. 425 ; Ludwig, p. 372 ;
Griffith, i. 35.
1. To the four immortal region-guardians of the regions (rff«), to the
overseers of existence (bhuta), would we now pay worship {vidh) with
oblation.
The verse occurs also in TB. (ii. 5.32) and A(JS. (ii. 10. 18) : in the latter, without
variants ; TB. inserts ivd after a^dnam in a. The comm. paraphrases d^ds by prdcyddidiqas,
which is plainly its meaning here.
2. Ye, O gods, who are the four region -guardians of the regions — do
ye release us from the fetters {pd^a) of perdition (ntrrti), from every distress
{dnhas).
The comm. reads stana for sihana in b. The Anukr. does not note b as metrically
deficient, doubtless making the harsh resolution ca-tu-a-ro.
3. Unlamed I sacrifice to thee with oblation ; unmaimed I make oblation
to thee with ghee ; the god that is fourth 'region-guardian of the
regions, he shall bring hither to us welfare (subhutd).
At the beginning, d^rdmas is read by half the mss. (including our E. I. O. Op. K. Kp.)
and by the comm. ; SPP. gives dsr- in his text, as we in ours. A^lonas in b in our
edition is an erratum for dqlonas, Ppp. has for a, b aqrottas le havisd vidhema tna