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11/ TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK III. -iii. l8
6. Successfully let the draft-animals, successfully the men, successfully
let the plow {Idngala) plow ; successfully let the straps be bound
successfully do thou brandish the goad.
This is RV. iv. 57. 4, without variation ; it is also found, with the two following
verses, in TA. (vi. 6. 2, vss. 6-8), which reads 7ia>as instead of ndras at end of a. Part
of our mss. (P.M.W.E.) have ustram in d. The coram, declares (Juna to be addressed
in the last pada. Ppp. has in xii. qutiaih vrtratn ayaccha qunam astram ud ingayah
qunath tu tapyatdm phdlaf (unafh vahatu Idngalam; and in xix. the same a, b Lending
-ya\, but, for c, d, ^unarit vahasya quklasyd 'strayd jahi daksinam.
7. O Cunasira, do ye (two) enjoy me here ; what milk ye have made
in heaven, therewith pour ye upon this [furrow].
' Milk,' i.e. nourishing fluid. Weber implies at the end "earth" (instead of "furrow"),
which is perhaps to be preferred. RV. (iv. 57. 5) reads for a qundsirdv imam
vacath ju-; TA. (as above) the same, except that it strangely omits the verb, and thus
reduces the tristubh pada to a gdyatrl; both texts mark the principal pada-division
after b. The comm. changes all the three verbs to 3d dual. The Anukr. forbids in a
the resolution -slrd ihd. In our edition the verse is numbered 6, instead of 7.
8. O furrow, we reverence thee; be [turned] hitherward, O fortunate
one, that thou mayest be well-willing to us, that thou mayest become of
good fruit for us.
RV. (iv. 57. 6) inverts the order of a and b, and both it and TA. (as above) end
c and d respectively with subhdgi 'sasi and suphdla 'sasi. All the pada-mss. have the
blundering reading suophalah in d. The Anukr. perversely refuses to make the resolution
lu-d in a.
9. With ghee, with honey {vtddhu) [is] the furrow all anointed,
approved {anu-man) by all the gods, by the Maruts ; do thou, O furrow,
turn hither unto us with milk, rich in refreshment, swelling with fulness
of ghee.
The verse is found also in VS. (.xii. 70), TS. (iv. 2. 5*), and MS. (ii. 7. 12). VS. MS.
read -ajyaldm for -aktd in a ; all make c and d exchange places, and at the beginning
of c read asman for sa nas; and VS.TS. put pdyasd in place of ghrtdvat in d, while
MS. gives iirjd bhdgdm mddhumat plnv-.
18. Against a rival wife : with a plant.
\Atharvan. — vdnaspatyam. dnuslubhani : 4. 4p.anustubgarbhd usnih ;
6. usniggarbhd fathyapanktil\
This peculiarly Atharvan hymn has found its way also into the tenth book of the
Rig-Veda (as x. 145, with exchange of place between vss. 3 and ;
4 it is repeated in RV.
order at MP. i. 15. 1-6). Only three verses (our 4, 2, i, in this order) are found in
Paipp. (vii.). Kauq. uses it, among the women's rites, in a charm (36. 19-21) forgetting
the better of a rival ; vs. 6 a and b accompany the putting of leaves under and upon
the (rival's) bed. And the comm. (doubtless wrongly) regards vss. 5 and 6 to be
intended by the pratika quoted in 38.30, instead of xii. 1.54, which has the same
beginning.