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10. With his feet treading down debility (sedi), with his thighs
(jdnghd) extracting (iit-khid) refreshing drink — with weariness go the
draft-ox and the plowman unto sweet drink {kildla).
The verse seems rather out of place here. As both ti and m final are assimilated to
an initial palatal, the pada-X&TA commits the blunder in b of understanding irath to be
for {ran; and, as is usual in such cases, a part of our mss. read Iranj- (so P.M. W.E.I.) ;
SPP. very properly emends his pada-\.e.JA to Irani. The comm. reads in d kinaqasya
for-faf ca (one of SPP's authorities following him "
: with the old accent," SPP. remarks,
as if the change of reading involved a change of accent), and xazS;.^^ gachaias a genitive
agreeing with it— against the accent; but this he regularly ignores. Iram, it may be
added, he glosses with bhuinim !
11. Twelve, indeed, they declare those nights of the vow {vrdtyd) of
Prajapati ; whoso knows the brdlivtan within them (tdti-6 'pa) — that
verily is the vow of the draft-ox.
Or, " those twelve nights they declare to be for the vow " etc. : it is uncertain what is
object and what objective predicate in the sentence. Ppp. reads and combines vrdtyd
" hits pr- in b ; for the unusual phrase iatro 'pa in c it gives tad vd 'pi; and in d it has
balam instead of vratam. For Weber's conjectures as to the twelve nights and the
draft-ox of this hymn, see his Omina utid Portenta, p. 388 ; compare also [_ Weber's
other references, Ind. Stud, xviii. 45, andj Zimmer, p. 366. The comm. gIo.sses vratya
by vratdrha, and quotes TS. v. 6. 7' as to the twelve nights of consecration.
12. He milks {dtili) at evening, he milks in the morning, he milks
about midday ; the milkings of him that come together, those unfailing
ones we know.
Ppp. has for a, b duhe vd 'nadvdn sdyath duhe prdtar duke divd, and at the end
(as above noted) anapadasyatas. The comm. supplies to duhe either anadvdham as
object (with the worshiper as subject), or anadvdn as subject (witli the performer of
the sava sacrifice as beneficiary) ;
satit yanti he explains hy phalena saihgacchante.
12. To heal serious wounds : with an herb.
\Jibhu. — vinaspatyatn . dnustubham
: i. j-p.gdyatri ; 6.3-p. yavamadhyd bhuriggSyatrl
7. brkati.\
Found in Paipp. iv. (in the verse-order 3-5, i, 2, 7, 6). Used by Kau^. (28. 5) in a
healing rite : Kegava and the comm. agree in saying, for the prevention of flow of
blood caused by a blow from a sword or the like ; boiled /disd--wa.teT is to be poured on
the wound etc. The schol. to Kau^. 28. 14 also regard the hymn as included among
the Idksdliiigds prescribed to be used in that rule.
Translated: Kuhn, KZ. xiii. 58, with Germanic parallels; Ludwig, p. 508; Grill, 18,
125; Griffith, i. 146; Bloom field, 19, 384 ; Weber, .xviii. 46. — Cf. Hillebrandt, Vedachrestomathie,
p. 48.
I . Grower art thou, grower
;
grower of severed bone ; make this grow,
O artindhatt.
Arundhaif, lit. 'non-obstructing,' appears to be the name of a climbing plant having
healing properties ; it is mentioned more than once elsewhere, and in v. 5 (vss. 5 and 9)
along with Idksd (vs. 7) ' lac ' ; and the comm. to the present hymn repeatedly declares