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iii. 14- BOOK III. THE ATHARVA-VEDA-SAMHITA. IIO
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'In my possession,' lit. witli me' (Ijei mir, chez moi). Tine comm. takes pusya/a
ss, = posayata ; and so do tlie translators, unnecessarily and therefore inadmissibly ;
or, we may emend to pusyatit, with vdsu as subject. " Unite " calls for the expression
of with what ; this is not given, but the verse may be regarded as (except d) a continuation
of vs. I. The three padas a-c are found as a. gdyalrl-wQTh^ in MS. (iv. 2. 10 : with
posd lor pilsd in b). Ppp. has i/ia pitsyati at beginning of d.
3. Having come together, iinaffrighted, rich in manure, in this stall,
bearing the sweet of soma, come ye hither, free from disease.
Three of the padas (a, b, d) again form, with considerable variants, ^.gayatrl in MS.
(ibid.) immediately following the one noted above : MS. has ivihntias for dbibhytisis,
purislnls for kar-, and, in place of our d, svdve(;a na a gata. Ppp. gives, as not seldom,
in part the MS. readings, corrupted : it begins samjananatii vi/irtain, has havis
for inadhii in c, and, for d, svdvei^dsa e/aiia. The combination of p. iipaaetana into s.
upetana is one of those aimed at by Prat. iii. 52, according to the comment on that rule ;
but it would equally well fall under the general rule (iii. 38) as to the order of combination
when d comes between two vowels {upa-d-Uana like indra-d-ihi etc.). LCf. also
Lanman, JAGS. x. 425.
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4. Come ye just here, O kine, and flourish here like qdkd ; also multiply
(fra-jd) just here ; let your complaisance be toward me.
Qdke \ia (p. (did°h>a) in b is very : obscure Weber renders " like dung " (as if
0kd=^dkrt)\ Ludwig, "with the dung" (as if (did = (aina); Grill, "like plants"
(implying qdkain iva or qdkd ti'a)\ the comm. says "multiply innumerably, like flies"
(^akd = jnaksikd); this last is, so far as can be seen, the purest guesswork, nor is anything
brought up in its support ; and the " dung " comparisons are as unsuitable as they
are unsavory. The explanation of the comm. accords with one among those offered by
the commentators on VS. xxiv. 32 (= MS. iii. 14. 13) and TS. v. 5. iS', where (dkd also
occurs. Ppp. reads sakd iva. SPP. reports his /rif/a-mss. as accenting _^ai/a/i in a, but
emends in his/a