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127 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK III. -HI. 23
emendation to ayan, and so does SPP. in his pada-text ;
but in samhita (perhaps by an
oversight) he reads dyan, unaccented ;
the comm. has dyati (accent doubtful) : of.
iv. 14. I c, where the mss. again read ayam for ayan in the same phrase. Ppp. has a
very different second half-verse : yena deva jyotisd dyam udayan tena md 'gne varcasd
sam srje 'ha. The comm. makes apsu in b mean either " [creatures] in the waters," or
else " [Yakshas, Gandharvas, etc.] in the atmosphere." The metrical definition of the
Anukr. is mechanically correct |_52
— 2 = 5oJ if we count 13 syllables in b Land combine
varcasdgne\ !
4. What great splendor becomes thine, O Jatavedas, from the offering
how great splendor there is of the sun, and of the aj«r«-like elephant —
so great splendor let
the (two) A^vins, lotus-wreathed, assign unto me.
All the mss. read in b bhavati, and SPP. accordingly adopts it in his edition ; ours
makes the necessary correction to bhdvati. The comm. reads dhule, vocative, at end
of b ; Ppp. has instead ahutam ; and then adds to it, as second half-verse, our 3 d, e
(with abhya for adyd, and krdhi for krnu), putting also the whole |_i.e. our 4 a, b -1- 3 d,
ej before our vs. 3 ;
and then it gives the remainder (C-f ) of our vs. 4 here, with krnutam
for a dhatidm, and in cyavad varcah siir-.
5. As far as the four directions, as far as the eye reaches (sam-aq), let
so great force {indriyd) come together, that elephant-splendor, in me.
The comm. reads sam etu in c.
6. Since the elephant has become the superior (atisthdvant) of the comfortable
{} susdd) wild beasts, with his fortune [and] splendor do I pour
{sic)
upon myself.
That is, ' I shed it upon me, cover myself with it.' The comm. understands the
somewhat questionable susdd nearly as here translated, " living at their pleasure in the
forest " ; and atisthdvant as possessing superiority either of strength or of position.
Weber entitles the hymn, without good reason, " taming of a wild elephant."
23. For fecundity.
[^Brahman. — cSndramasam uta yonidevatyam. dnustubham : j. uparistddbhurigbrhatl
6. skandhogrlvibrhati.\
Found in Paipp. iii. Used by KauQ. in the chapters of women's rites, in a charm
(35.3) to procure the conception of male offspring, with breaking an arrow over the
mother's head etc.
Translated: Weber, v. 223 ; Ludwig, p. 477; Zimmer, p. 319; Weber, xvii. 285 ;
Griffith, i. 1 16 ; Bloomfield, 97, 356.
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from thee ;
By what thou hast become barren
(vehdt), that we make disappear
that now we set down elsewhere, far away from (dpa) thee.
Vehdt is perhaps more strictly 'liable to abort'; the comm. gives the word here
either sense. Ppp. is defective, giving only the initial words of vss. i and 2.
2. Unto thy womb let a foetus come, a male one, as an arrow to a
quiver; let a hero be born unto thee here, a ten-months' son.
This verse and the two following occur in ^GS. (i. 19. 6), and this one without