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6l TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK II. -ii. 1
(which he quotes); and that is certainly not its meaning there. Weber conjectures
Prajapati. |_The BAU. passage is i. 4. i6 in Bohtlingk's ed. See Whitney's criticism
upon it at AJP. xi. 432. I thinlt nevertheless that fire may be meant — see Deussen's
Sechzig Upantshad's, p. 394. J
called of two padas.
It does not appear why the last two verses should be
17. For various gifts.
\^Brahman.— saptarcam. prdn&panSyurdevatyam. ekdvasdnam: 1-6. i-p. Ssuri tristubh ;
7. dsury usnih^
|_Not metrical.J Paipp. has a similar set of phrases in ii. For the use of the hymn
by Kauq. and Vait, see under hymn 16. It is also, with 15 and others, reckoned by the
schol. to KauQ. (54. 1 1, note) to the ayusya gana.
Translated: Weber, xiii. 180; Griffith, i. 61.
1. Force art thou ; force mayest thou give me : hail
The Ppp. has no phrase corresponding to this.
Some of our mss., as of SPP's, read
da instead of ddh before svaha, in this hymn and the next, where they do not abbreviate
the repetition by omitting both words. The comm. regards them both as addressed to
Agni, or else to the article offered (huyatnanadraziyani). |_Cf. MGS. i. 2. 3, and p. 149
and citations. J
2. Power art thou ;
power mayest thou give me : hail
Ppp. has sahoda agnes saho me dha svaha.
3. Strength art thou ; strength mayest thou give me : hail
Ppp. gives balada agnir balam me svaha.
4. Life-time art thou ; life-time mayest thou give me : hail
The corresponding phrase in Ppp. is : ayur asya ayur me dha. svaha.
5. Hearing art thou ; hearing mayest thou give me : hail
There are no phrases in Ppp. answering to this and the two following verses ; but
others with varcas and tejas as the gifts sought.
hail
6. Sight art thou ; sight mayest thou give me : hail
7. Protection {paripdna) art thou ;
protection mayest thou give me
The anuvaka [_3.J has 7 hymns, with 42 verses ; the Anukr. says : asionam tasmac
chatdrdhaih trtiye.
Here ends also the thnA prapathaka.
18. For relief from demons and foes.
[Cdiana (sapatnaksayakdmaK). — dgneyam.
dvdipadam; sdmmbdrhatam^
[_Not metrical.J Ppp. has some similar phrases in ii. The hymn belongs to the
cdtanani (Kaug. 8. 25 : the comm. regards only the last three verses as catana, because
vs. 3 is the one whose pratlka is cited in the Kaug. text ; but it is perhaps more likely
that ardyaksayanam is an oversight for bhrdtrvyaks-) ; it is used by itself also in one
of the witchcraft rites {abhicarikani), while adding fuel of reeds to the fire
Translated: Weber, xiii. 180 ; Griffith, i. 61.
(48. l).