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ii. 26- BOOK II. THE ATHARVA-VEDA-SAMHITA. 66
26. For safety and increase of kine.
[Savitar. — pafavyam. trdistuhham. j. uparistddvirddbrhatl ; 4, s- anustubh {4. bhurij).']
Found in Paipp. ii. Used by Kau?. (19. 14), with iii. 14, iv. 21, and ix. 7
3 — see comm. to ix. 7 = 1 2 J, in a ceremony for the prosperity of cattle.
|_not vi. 1 1.
Translated: Weber, xiii. 188; Ludwig, p. 371 ;
Griffith, i. 65; Bloomfield, 142, 303 j
vss. I and 2, also by Grill, 64, 92. — Cf. Bergaigne-Henry, Manuel, p. 138.
1. Hither let the cattle come that went away, whose companionship
(sahacdrd) Vayu (the wind) enjoyed, whose form-givings Tvashtar knows
in this cow-stall let Savitar make them fast {ni-yam).
Or, ' whose forms,' rupadheya being virtually equivalent to simple riipa. Ppp. reads
in b sahataram. The " cow-stall " does not probably imply anything more than an
enclosure. The Anukr. passes without notice theya^a/fpada d.
2. To this cow-stall let cattle flow-together Lstream togetherj (samsru);
let Brihaspati, foreknowing, lead them hither; let Sinlvall lead
hither the van {dgra) of them ; make them fast when they have come,
O Anumati.
|_In the prior draft of 3, Mr. Whitney has ' stream. 'J Ppp. has at the end yacchat;
one of SPP's mss., yacchat. The comm. gives anugate (= he anugamanakaritii) in d.
The value oi pra in the common epithet /ra/a«rf«/ (rendered
'
foreknowing ') is obscure
and probably minimal. [_As to the deities here named, see Zimmer, p. 352, and Hillebrandt,
Ved. Mythol. i.
422.
3. Together, together let cattle flow LstreamJ, together horses, and
together men, together the fatness that is of grain ; I offer with an oblation
of confluence.
For the oblation called 'of confluence,' to effect the streaming together of good
things, compare!. 15 and xix. i. The change of meter in .this hymn need not damage
its unity, in view of its occurrence as one hymn in Ppp. Ppp- reads in h paurusas, and
in c sphatibhis (iorya sph-).
obvious resolution -vi-e-na in d.
The metrical definition of the Anukr. seems to reject the
4. I pour together the milk {kslrd) of kine, together strength, sap,
with sacrificial butter ;
poured together are our heroes ; fixed are the
kine in me [rather, with mej [as] kine-lord.
Ppp. reads valam in b, combines -ktd 'stndkam in c, and has for d mayi gdvaq ca
gopatdu. The redundant syllable in d (noticed by the Anukr.) would be got rid of
by changing mdyi to the old locative mi\j, but with better metrical result, by adopting
the Ppp. readingj. With the second half-verse is to be compared AQS. iii. 1 1 . 6 : arista
asmdkam vlrd mayi gdvah santu gopatdu. The comm. says that gavdm in a means
grstlndm '
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of heifers (having their first calf).'
I bring {d-/ir) the milk of kine ; I have brought the sap of grain
brought are our heroes, our wives, to this home {dstaka).