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iii. 12- BOOK III. THE ATHARVA-VEDA-SAMHITA. I06
let the Maruts sprinkle it with water, with ghee ; let king Bhaga deepen
{ni-tan) our ploughing.
Ppp. reads in a, b vayiir agnis tvasta hota ni, and has so>nas (which suits raja
better) for bhagas in d. In c it begins with the true reading uksaiiiu; this is so naturally
suggested as emendation of the uchdntu of the mss. that all the translators assume
it (Weber, strangely mistaking the plain statement of the Index Verborum, accuses us
of having wrongly altered uksdntu in our edition to uchdntu!') ;
uksdntu is also read
by the comm., and by two or three of SPP's mss. that follow him ; and SPP. very
properly admits it into his text. SPP. also reads after it udna, with the comm., but
against all his mss. [_except the grotriya KJ ; there is no instance where udna and udnds
are correctly read in any of them (here, our Bp.O.Op. have uina, P.M. utva, the
rest * unna : our edition gives unna, and Weber has failed to see that it was corrected
in \.\\& Index Verborum Lunder uddn\). The comm. makes d refer to the ploughing
of the site of the house : gdldbhumeh karsanath nitaram karotu. |_*E.H.D.K.Kp. and
Ppp. have ttnna; I. has utta ; W. has -tu tva.\ [_For uchantu, see x. 9. 23 n.J
5. O mistress of the building (.' mdna), as sheltering, pleasant, hast
thou, a goddess, been fixed by the gods in the beginning; clothing thyself
in grass, mayest thou be well-willing; then mayest thou give us
wealth together with heroes.
Ppp. has, for c, d, ftnnaih vasand sitmand ya(as tvam rayiih no dhi subhage suviram.
" Grass " in c refers probably to a thatched roof. Mana the comm. gives two explanations
for : either " of the reverend {inananiya) lord of the site {vdstupati),'" or else
"of the spoiling (J miyaindna') grain etc." {patnt in this case s,\gn\iy\ng pdlayitri).
b the comm. reads nirmitd. HGS. (i. 27. 8) has a, b, c (with a wholly different d) in
a corrupt form : 7nd nah sapatnah ^aranah syond devo devebhir vimitd 'sy agre: trnaih
vasdndh sumand asi tvam ; but our d (with -virdih r) occurred just before (i. 27. 7).
6. With due order, O beam [vaufd), ascend the post ; formidable,
bearing rule, force away (apa-vrj) the foes ; let not the attendants (iipasattdr)
of thy houses be harmed, O dwelling ; may we live a hundred
autumns with all
our heroes.
Ppp. reads sthund 'dhi in a, and in c, d has -tdro ' tra virdjdih jlvdm qaradaq
^atdni. Both meter and sense indicate thzt grhanam is an intrusion in c; and stivirds
at the end would rectify the meter of d. The first pada is the beginning of a verse in
AGS. ii.9 ; and HGS. (i. 27. 7) has the first half-verse, with sthundu in a, and ilrdhvas
and apa sedha in b Lcf. MP. ii. 15.6; MGS. ii. 11. 14 is corrupt J.
The comm. reads
arsan for risan in c ; he explains rthta by abddhyena rupena saha, and upasattdras by
upasadanakartdras. The verse (11 + 11 : 144-12 =48) is defined by the Anukr. with
mechanical correctness.
to it
7. To it the tender boy, to it the calf, with moving creatures {j'dgat),
the jar of parisrut, with mugs of curd, have come.
Ppp. has tvd for imdtn in a and C, and in t, pariqrias ; and it ends d with kala(;a^ ca
yd. The mss. vary between parisrutas and -(nit- (our Bp.H.O.Op.Kp. have f)
;
the
comm. has s, and renders the word by parisravanaqtlasya madhunah
'
foaming over
sweet.' The word is quoted in the comment to Prat. ii. 106 as an example of s after i
protected from lingualization by a following r. The comm. reads in c kumbhds, and
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