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93 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK III. -iii. 6
text. The comm. also describes it as employed by the Naks. Lcomm. again errs
should be ^anti — BloomfieldJ K. (17, 19) in a maka^anti called dngirasi.
Translated: A. Kuhn, Herabkunft des Feuers etc., 1859, p. 224, or 2d ed., p. 198;
Weber, xvii. 204 ; Grill, 21, 104; Griffith, i. 87; Bloomfield, 91, 334.
1. The male {ptimdris) [is] born out of the male — the aqvatthd forth
from the khadird; let it smite my foes, whom I hate and who [hate] me.
A very acceptable emendation would be pdri jatds, since pdri is plainly accessory
to the ablative piimsds, as ddhi to khadirat in b (cf. dsatas pdri jajTiiri, x. 7. 25).
Ppp. retains the initial a of aqvatthas, and begins d with_j"z«f ca 'ham. The agvatiha
begins as a parasite, usually on the (ami (fem.), this time from the hard khadira (masc).
2. Crush them out, O agvaithd, our violent foes, O expelling one, allied
with Vrtra-slaying Indra, with Mitra, and with Varuna.
The translation implies the reading of vdibddha in b as an independent word ; it is
so regarded by BR., Weber, the later translators, and the comm. ; all the pada-m%s.
make it into a compound with dddhatas, and both editions so write it. Ppp. reads
instead, for b, gatri'at mayi bddha todhata. Some of our mss. (P.M.W.E.) read in a
nl f_r-
; one of SPP's has srnlhi. The comm. explains dddhatas as bhri^am katnpayitfnj
[_but see Ved. Stud. ii.
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Ppp. adds a verse of its own : yathd '(^vattha nisndmi pfirvan jdtdn titd 'pardn
(cf. X. 3. 13-15) :
evd prdanyatas tvam abhi tistha sahasvatd.
3. As thou, O a^'atthd, didst break out [the khadird'\ within the great
sea, so do thou break out all these, whom I
hate and who [hate] me.
" The sea," doubtless the atmosphere, as explained by the comm. (and Weber). The
comm. reads dbhinas in a, and two or three of SPP's mss. so far agree with him as to
give the (blundering) nirdbhinnas ; this reading exhibits a much less startling and
anomalous crowding-out of the root-final by the personal ending than does -abhanas (see
my Skt. Gr. §555), and so is more acceptable. Some of SPP's mss. similarly mix up
bhindhi and bhandhi in c ; the comm., of course, has the former. A part of the mss.
(including our Bp.P.M.E.H.) leave mahati in b unaccented (as .again at xi. 8. 2, 6).
Ppp. yathd '^vattha vibhinaccham tahaiy arnave :
sahasvatd (cf. our vs. 6 c, d).
evd me qatro cittdni visvag bhidhi
4. Thou that goest about overpowering, like a bull that has overpowered
— with thee here, Q afaatthd, may we overpower our rivals.
Ppp. reads in a carati, as does also the comm., followed by two or three of SPP's
mss. Ppp. further combines in b sdsahdndi 'va rs-, and ends d with samvistvahi. [^The
samhitd-m&i. all combine iva rs- in b;
see note to Prat. iii. 46. J
5. Let perdition bind them, with unreleasable fetters of death — my
foes, O a^atthd, whom I
hate and who [hate] me.
Ppp. has avimokydis in b, and (as in vs. I ) begins d with ydn(; cd ''ham. Several of
our mss, (P.M.W.E.) have at the beginning the senseless reading simdtu.
6. As, O agvatthd, ascending them of the forest-trees, thou dost put
them beneath thee (ddliara), so the head of my foe do thou split apart
and overcome.