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103 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK III. -m. II
13. Thou whose son is Indra, whose son is Soma, daughter art thou
of Prajapati ; fulfil thou our desires ; accept our oblation.
Wanting in Ppp., as above noted.
The second anuvdka contains 5 hymns, 40 verses ; and the quotation from the old
Anukr. is simply da^a.
II. For relief from disease, and for long life.
\Brahmatt and Bhrgvangiras. — astarcam.
ditidrdgndyusyam^ yaksmaiid^anadevatyam.
trdistubham : 4. fakvarigarbhd Jagati ; j, 6. anustubh ; 7. usnigbrhatigarbhd
pathydpahkti ; 8. J-av. 6-p. brhatigarbhdjagati^
The first four verses are found in Paipp. i., with the bulk of the 4-verse hymns ; they
are also RV. x. 161. 1-4 (RV. adds a fifth verse, which occurs below as viii. 1.20).
The hymn is used by Kau?. (27. 32, 33) in a general healing ceremony (without specification
of person or occasion ;
the schol. and comm. assume to add such), and, in company
with many others (iv. 13. i etc. etc.), in a rite for length of life (58. 11); and it is
reckoned to the takman^ana gana (26. I, note) and to the ayusya gana (54. II, note;
but the comm., ignoring these, counts it as one of the ahholinga gana). In Vait.
(36. 19), vs. 8 accompanies the setting free of the horse at the at;vamedlia sacrifice ; and
the hymn (the edition says, i. 10.4; the pratikas are the same) is employed, with ii.
33
etc., in the purusamedha (38. i).— |_See also W's introduction to ii. 33.
Translated: Weber, xvii. 231 ; Griffith, i. 95 ; Bloomfield, 49, 341.— In part also by
Roth, Zur Litteratur und Geschichte des Weda, p. 42.
1. I release thee by oblation, in order to living, from unknown ^«^/;«a
and from royal ydksma ; if now seizure {grdki) hath seized him, from it,
O Indra-and-Agni, do ye release him.
RV. inserts vd after yddi in c. Ppp. has, in the second half-verse, grahya grhlto
yady esa yatas tata ind-. The comm. explains rdjayakstna as either " king oi yaksmas "
or else "the^. that seized king Soma first," quoting for the latter TS. ii. 5. 65 [_see ref-
The first pada \s jagati.
erences in Bloomfield's comment J.
2. If of exhausted life-time, or if deceased, if gone down even to the
presence (antikd) of death, him I take from the lap of perdition ; I have
won {spr) him for [life] of a hundred autumns.
The translation implies in AdspSrsam, which is the reading of our edition, supported
by RV., and also by the comm. {j= prabalaiit karomH), and two of SPP's mss. that
follow the latter ; the dspar^atn of nearly all the mss. (hence read by SPP.), and of Ppp.,
can be nothing but a long-established blunder. Ppp. has at the beginning ^«rf ukhardyur
y-. LAt ii. 14. 3 SPP. used the " long/" to denote the ksaipra circumflex ; with
equal reason he might use it here for 'Cc\e. praqlista of nlta = n{-ila.\
3. With an oblation having a thousand eyes, a hundred heroisms, a
hundred life-times, have I taken him, in order that Indra may lead him
unto autumns, across to the further shore of all difficulty (diiritd).
RV. has in a qatdqdradena for faidvtryena, and makes much better sense of c, d by
reading (atdm for indras, and indras for dti (it also has imdm for enam).
4. Live thou increasing a hundred autumns, a hundred winters, and a