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iii. 6- BOOK III. THE ATHARVA-VEDA-SAMHITA. 94
Ppp. (as we saw above) has the second half of this verse, with variants, as its 3 c, d.
What the vdnaspalyd is, as distinguished from vdnaspdti, is as obscure as the similar
relation of rti'i and artavd [_iii. 10. 9 note J
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they of that sort, they and their
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kind'; our translation marks, rather mechanically, the distinction. The comm. says
that here vanaspati means " the place where trees grow," and vanaspatya the trees
themselves — which is an explanation quite after his kind.
7. Let them float forth downward, like a boat severed from its mooring
{bdndhatia) ; of them, thrust forth by the expelling one, there is no
returning again.
Ppp. reads in c nurbadha ; our Op. has vdibddhd : pra°nu//andm. As/u in d, foi'
as/t, would be an improvement. The comm. gives a double explanation of bandhana, as
either place or instrument of fastening. [_The vs. recurs at ix. 2. 12, with sayaka- for
vaibadhd-. — W's collation of Op. gives /rao, not/rrfo!J
8. I thrust them forth with mind, forth with intent and incantation
forth with branch of tree, of agvatt/td, we thrust them.
Ppp. has in a prdi 'nan nudami (which makes the meter easier), and at the end correspondingly
the active nudamasi ; for b it gives /r