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Ill TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK III. -Ul. 15
Bhdvantas in c would be a desirable emendation. Upa-sad may be rather wait
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upon ' (so Grill), only then we should expect rather sadama (comm., upagacchemd).
|_W's implied difference between sadema and sadd?>ia is not clear to me. J Ppp. reads
in a gopatya, and its b is mayi vo gostha iha posayati. [_The epithet arsi seems to be
as meaningless here as at iii. 12. 7 — see note, end. J
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15. For success in trade.
\Atharvan (fanyakdmak). — astarcam. vdifvadevam utdi"ndrdgnam. trSistubham :
I. bhurij ; 4. ^-av. 6-p. brhatlgarbhd virddatyasti ; J. virddjagati
7. anustubh ; 8. niirr/.]
Four of the verses are found in Paipp. xix. (i, 4, 6, 2, in this order). The hymn is
used by Kaug. in a rite for good-fortune in trading (50. 12), and again (59. 6) for a similar
purpose; also (or vs. i) in the indramahotsava ceremony (140. 16); also vss. 7 and
8 in the appeasing of the flesh-eating fire (70. 13, 14). In Vait. (6. 9), vs. 7 is employed
in the ceremony of establishing the sacrificial fire. The usual statement of these various
uses appears to be lacking in the manuscript of the comm., and is supplied, only in part,
by its editor.
Translated: Ludwig, p. 215 ; Zimmer, p. 258 (except vss. 7, 8); Weber, xvii. 247 ;
Grill (vss. 1-6), 69, 113; Griffith, i. 102 ; Bloomfield, 148, 352. — Cf. Hillebrandt,
Veda-chrestomathie, p. 38.
1. I Stir up (cud) the trader Indra; let him come to us, be our forerunner;
thrusting [away] the niggard, the waylaying wild animal, let
him, having the power (ff),
be giver of riches to me.
Or paripantMnam and mrgdm in c may be independent of one another (so comm.,
and translators except Weber and Zimmer). Ppp. has, for a, b, indram vayam vanijam.
havamahe sa nas trata pura etu prajanan. The Anukr. notices c as jagati pada.
|_" Indra, the trader": cf. Bergaigne, Rel. vdd., ii. 480. — Many Jataka tales (e.g. no's
I, 2) give vivid pictures of the life of the trading caravans.
2. The many roads, travelled by the gods, that go about {sam-car)
between heaven-and-earth — let them enjoy me with milk, with ghee,
that dealing (krl) I
may get (a-hr) riches.
Ppp's version is very different : ihdi 'vas panthd bahavo devaydnam anu dydvdprthivi
supranitih : tesdm ahndih varcasy a dadhdtni yathd klitvd dhanatn diiahdni.
The comm. allows us alternatively to understand deva- in a as " by traders "; he renders
jusantdm in c by sevantam, as if it were causative. His text has at the beginning ye
ie panth: The emendation, suggested by Weber, of md in c to me would help the
sense. The first half-verse is found again below as vi. 55. i a, b. To make a regular
tristubh, we must contract to -prthvi in b, and expand to kri-tu-a in d ;
the Anukr. perhaps
regards the two irregularities as balancing one another.
order to energy {tdras), to strength —
; revering with worship (brdhnian),
3. With fuel, O Agni, with ghee, I, desiring, offer the oblation, in
so far as I am able — this divine prayer (dht), in order to hundred-fold
winning.
The verse is RV. iii. 18.3, without variant — save that RV. accents of cowrsc juhdmt,
as does our edition by necessary emendation, while SPP. follows all the mss. in giving