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47 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK II. -ii.
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Agni's ' fellows ' because, like him, born from the mouth of Brahman, and hence that
sajdta here means Brahmans. The metrical definition of the verse (ii + ii :8 + u
= 41) is wholly artificial and bad.
5. Over enviers, over delinquents, over the thoughtless, over haters, —
verily all difficult things, O Agni, do thou cross ; then mayest thou give
us wealth accompanied with heroes.
The translation implies emendation of the impossible nihds to nidds; the comm.
shows his usual perverse ingenuity by giving two different etymologies of nihas, from
ni + han and from ni + hdj neither of them is worse than the other. The three
parallel texts all have nihas, Ppp. nithas. Both editions read sfdhas, but it is only a
common error of the mss., putting r for ri; nearly half of SPP's mss. (though none of
ours) have the true reading srldhas, which is that also of VS. and TS. (MS. srdhas).
In c, all the pada-ms,5. present the absurd reading vi