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I05 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK III. -iii. 12
at MGS. ii. Ii.l2ff. (cf. p. 148 ikdiva).] The hymn is reckoned by Kaug. (8.23) to
the vastospatiya hymns, and is used with them in a house-building ceremony (43. 4 if.
the " two dhnivas" mentioned in 43. 1 1 [_are doubtless the same as the " two dhruvas "
mentioned inj 136. 7 ;
[_and the latter J
are, according to the comm. to vi. 87, not vss.
I and 2, but hymns vi. 87 and 88) ; vss. 6 and 8 are specially quoted (43.9, 10). Vait.
(i6. 1, in the agnistoma sacrifice) gives a pratlka which is nearly that of vs. 8, but
with adhvaryo for nari. |_Vs. 9, q. v., occurs in Ppp. with others of our ix. 3.J
Translated: Ludwig, p. 463; Zimmer, p. 150; Weber, xvii. 234 ;
Grill, 59, 108;
Griffith, i.97; Bloomfield, 140, 343. — Cf. Hillebrandt, Veda-chrestomathie, p. 44; and
Bloomfield's references ; also M. Winternitz, Mittheilungen der Anthropologischen
Gesellschaft in Wien,\o\. xvii, p. [38].
1. Just here I fix {ni-7ni) [my] dwelling {qdla) firm; may it stand in
security, sprinkling ghee ; unto thee here, O dwelling, may we resort
{sam-car) with all our heroes, with good heroes, with unharmed heroes.
Ppp. reads abhi instead of upa in d. Padas a, b are found in PGS. iii. 4. 4, with
tisthatu for -ati\ and b in ^GS. iii. 3, with iistha for the same ; HGS. (i. 27. 2) has the
whole verse, with tisthati in a, ami (for upd) in d, and suviras before sarvav- in c.
2. Just here stand thou firm, O dwelling, rich in horses, in kine, in
pleasantness, in refreshment, in ghee, in milk; erect thyself (tit-qri) in
order to great good-fortune.
Ppp. leaves the a of aqvavatl in b unelided. PGS. (ibid.) has padas b and d, making
one verse of them with 3 c, d; padas a, b are also found in (JGS. (ibid.), with considerable
variants : sthiine for dhruva, dhruvS, for qale, and silamavatt for stmr- ; and
HGS. (ibid.) has again the whole verse, with firjasvatt payasa pinvamana for c.
The comm., with the usual queer perversion of the sense of siinria, renders silnrtavatt
by bahubhih priyasatvavdgbhir bdlddiiiatii vdnlbhir yiiktd.
Padas b and c art jagati.
3. A garner (.' dJianint) art thou, O dwelling, of great roof, of cleansed
grain ; to thee may the calf come, may the boy, may the kine, streaming
in at evening.
This translation of the difficult and doubtless corrupt first half-verse implies emendation
of -chandas to -chadis, and oi putt- topiltd which latter is, in fact, the Ppp. reading.
In d, SPP. adopts the bad reading dspaudamdnds, claiming to find it in the
majority of his mss. ;
but the scribes are so .wholly untrustworthy in their distinction of
sy and sp that the requirement of the sense is suflScient to show that they intend sy
here ;
the comm. reads -syand-, and so does QGS. (iii. 2) in the parallel passage : eiiaih
(iquh krandaty d kumdra d syandanidik dhenavo nityavatsdh ; PGS. (ibid.) has d
tvd qiqur a krandatv a gdvo dhenavo vdqyamdndh. |_MGS. ii.
11.12b reflects our
vs. 7. J The comm. lets us understand by dhaniiit either bhogajdtasya dhdrayitrt or
pra(astdi stambhair upeti; and by brhachandds t\\htT prabhiltdchddana or tnahadbhig
chandobhir veddir upetd; piitidhdnya is "having corn malodorous from age" — a
sign of stores unexhausted. The Anukr. apparently scans as 74-8: io-t-ii=36: a
very poor sort of brhatl. [_Note that of SPP's authorities for dsyand-, K and V were
men, not mss. ; none of his living authorities gave dspand-. The blunder is easy for
the eye, not for the ear. J
4. This dwelling let Savitar, Vayu, Indra, Brihaspati fix, foreknowing