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59 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK II. -ii. 1
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The omission of this verse, as being not found with the rest in Ppp. ii., would reduce
the hymn to the norm of the second book. Ppp. (in v.) rectifies the meter of d by
omitting indras. The metrical definition of the Anukr. is mechanically correct. The
comm. understands bhittapati to designate Rudra.
5. If ye are of the endemic (.^ ksetriyd) ones, or if sent by men ;
are born from the barbarians (ddsyii) — disappear from here,
if ye
O saddnvas.
All the mss., both here and in the next verse, accent at the end sadanvas, though the
word is plainly a vocative, and is so understood by the comm. (who says nothing of the
accent, and indeed in general pays no heed to it); SPP. retains the manuscript reading.
Ppp. has for Aya deva gha ksetriyad, and for cyad astii daqvibho jata.
6. I have gone around the abodes (dhdvtan) of them as a swift [steed
about] a race-course ; I have won (yV) all your races (aji) ; disappear from
here, O saddnvas.
The translation implies the evidently necessary emendation asaram at end of b ; Ppp.
has it, and also the comm.; both editions give asaran, with all the mss. But Ppp. agrees
with the mss. in giving just before it the false x^zAxig gasthatn for ka- (our text emends,
but, by an oversight, gives -qiir instead of -(^I'lh before it); and SPP. retains _f^«-.
The
comm. has instead g/as/Adm, and explains it as " the further goal, where one stops (si/ia)
wearied (^gland)."
15. Against fear.
\Brahman. — sadrcam. prdndpandyurdevatyam. tripddgdyatram .']
Found also in Paipp. vi., but in a much fuller form, with thirteen verses, of which
our six are, in their order, vss. 1,4, 3, 7, 12, 13 ; the others deal with wind and atmosphere,
cow and ox, Mitra and Varuna, Indra and Indra's might (indriya), hero and
heroism, breath and expiration, and death and immortality (amrtam) ; after bibher is
added in vs. l eva me 'pana ma risayS, and, at the end of the hymn, the same, but
with risa for risaya. I n Kauc;. (54. 1 ), the hymn is used, with vi. 4 , at the
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end of the
goddna ceremony, on giving food to the boy.
It is also counted by the schol. (ib., note)
to the dyusya gana. The comm. makes no reference to the goddna rite, but declares
the use to be simply by one desiring long life {dyuskdma).
Translated: Weber, xiii. 179; Griffith, i.
59.
1. As both the heaven and the earth do not fear, are not harmed, so,
my breath, fear not.
LMGS., at i. 2. 13, has evant vie prdna ma bibha evam me prana md risah.\
2. As both the day and the night do not fear etc. etc.
The comm. here applies for the first time the term parydya to these sentences, correspondent
but with elements in part different.
3. As both the sun and the moon do not fear etc. etc.
4. As both sacrament {brdhman) and dominion (ksatrd) do not fear
etc. etc.
That is, the Brahman and Ksatriya castes (brdhmanajdti and ksatriyajdti, comm.),
as the words might properly enough be translated.