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V. 20- BOOK V. THE ATHARVA-VEDA-SAMHITA. 256
That is, ' what is pleasant to us,' apparently. Pilrva in a might also mean ' in front,
in our van.' Ppp. reads in a, b visahasva qatrun: vada bahu rocatnanah; and it
makes the second half-verse exchange places with 8 c, d.
7. Let there be noise between these two firmaments {ndbhas) ;
severally
let thy sounds (dhvant) go swiftly ; roar at [them], thunder, truculent
Q), resounding {qlokakrt) unto the victory of our friends, a good
partizan.
Mitra in mitraturya has to be taken as subjective instead of objective genitive.
only with difificulty {iantu ?) that b can be made metrically complete Lunless we read /dva
for Uj. Ppp. reads at the end qraddhi. LBloomfield discusses utpipana, AJP. xii. 441 .J
8. Made by devices {dht), may it speak forth its voice ;
excite thou
the weapons of the warriors ; allied with Indra, call in the warriors ; by
friends smite mightily down the enemies.
'By devices' : i.e., apparently, with art. Emendation of vadati to vadasi in a is
very desirable ; Ppp. has the 2d pers. bharasva instead ;
and, as noted above, it substitutes
our 6 c, d for the second half-verse. There is a syllable lacking in a.
9. A vociferating herald {}fravadd), with bold army, making proclaim
in many places, sounding through the villages, winning advantage, knowing
the ways, do thou distribute {vi-hr) fame to many in the [battle] of
two kings.
The verse seems to relate to the proclamation of victory and of the desert of those
to whom it is due : see Roth, Festgruss an Bohtlingk, p. 99. Ppp. reads prasraveM
ioK pravado in a, and bhaja for hara in d. L^^"" "vayiina, Pischel, Ved. Stud. i. 297.
10. Aiming at advantage, conquering good things, very powerful,
conquering a host, thou art sharpened by brdhman; as the pressingstone
on the [soma-] stalks in the press, do thou, O drum, dance on
[their] possession, seeking booty {gavydn).
The translation implies emendation of gavydm (read by all our mss.) in d to gavydn^
as made in our edited text ; but gavydm ve'das might perhaps mean ' their possession in
kine.' Prat. ii. 62 prescribes ^reyahketas (not -yask-). Bp. alone reads ddhrih in c,
which Pet. Lexx. prefer; adris is, to be sure, superfluous beside j^ra^'a, and can hardly
be translated. Ppp. has, for b, mitram dadhanas tvisito vipai^cit ; and it reads adhi
(not 'dhi) in d. The first pada is defective, unless we make the violent resolution ^r-eat
the beginning ;
in the third we have to read 'va [or 'drih^.
11. Overpowering foes, overpowering and putting down, overpowering
hostile plotters, seeking kine, overpowering, up-shooting, bring forth
thy voice as a speaker (vdgvtn) his discourse {mdntrd) ; speak up force
(?/j) here in order to the conquering of the host.
Samgram- in our text is a misprint for samgrdm-. Ppp. offers no variants. The
words qatrusat and nisat (both unchanged in /a^^a-text) fall under Prat. ii. 82 ; iii. I ;
iv. 70. Gavisana (p. goaisanaK) is by Prat. ii. 23. The second pada is defective by
one syllable.
It is