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TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK III. -ni. I
takes ugras in a as vocative. He takes idf^e as a locative (= apradhrsye samgramalaksane
karmani), against the testimony of tlie other passages where the word occurs,
and supplies matsahayas. In b, he reads (with a couple of SPP's mss. that follow him)
mrndtas, and takes it (again against the accent) as accus. pi. Amimrnan in c he renders
as an imperative. The meter of the verse (i i + 1 1 : 1 2 + 13 = 47) is capable of being
fitted to the description of the Anukr. (_! i + 10 :I2 + I2 = 45j by duly managing the
resolutions. LAufrecht, KZ. xxvii. 219 (1885), reconstructs the vs., putting mrMyata
for mriiAta in b and reading c, d thus : dmimrdan vdsavo ndthitaso agnlr M qatrun
pratyM vidhyan. Cf. Bloomfield, 326. — Roth gives (in his notes) mrdaia for
mrnata and (in his collation) yesdin for hy esdni, as Ppp. readings.J
3. The army of enemies, O bounteous one, playing the foe against
us — do ye (two), O Vrtra-slaying Indra, Agni also, burn against them.
The verse is found also as SV. ii. 1 21 5, which reads chatruyadm in b, and begins c
with ubhdii tain {tarn is read by the comm., and is called for as an emendation in our
verse); it also has the correct accent atnitrasenam, which is found in only two of our
mss. (O.Op.) and three of SPP's; both editions read -sdnd?n. In our text, dgniq in d
is a misprint for agniq. |_SPP. combines asman ch-, badly: cf. i. 19.4, note.
4. Impelled, O Indra, forwards Q. pravdtd) by thy (two) bays — let thy
thunderbolt go forth, slaughtering {pra-nir) the foes ;
the following, the fleeing {pdrdnc) ;
scatter their actual intent.
smite the on-coming,
The verse is RV. iii. 30. 6 ;
which, however, reads at the beginning /r(f su te (as does
also the comm.), accents in cprallcd aniicdh (and the comm. claims the same for our
text), and has for d viqvam satydm krnithi vis/dm astu, which is even more unintelligible
than our text. Weber proposes visvaksatydin as a compound, " turning itself in
every direction " ; this, however, makes nothing out of -satyam. Ludwig translates
" fulfil their design in all [both] directions," which is not very clear. Ppp. reads viqvatii
vistam krnuhi satyam esdm; also quite obscure. The comm. takes satyam as
" established, settled," and znsvak krntihi as " scatter, unsettle, make uncertain." One
would hke to take visvak- as something like contrariwise,' with the general sense " turn
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their plans against themselves." Ppp. has further ntiah for aniicas in c.
5. O Indra, confound the army of our enemies ; with the blast of fire,
of wind, make them disappear, scattering.
The defective first half-verse is completed by Ppp. in this form : manomohanam
krnva (i.e. krnavas ?) indra 'mitrebhyas tvam. The second half-verse is also 2. 3 c, d.
The comm. explains dhrdjya by dahanavisaye yd vegitd gatis tathdvidhayd vegagatyd
tayor eva vd gatyd.
6. Let Indra confound the army ; let the Maruts slay with force ; let
Agni take away its eyes ;
let it go back conquered.
All the mss. read indra, vocative, at the beginning of the verse ; but SPP's text, as
well as ours, emends to indrah s-j and this the comm. also has. The comm. further in
C dhattdm instead of dattam.