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265 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK V. -V. 2$
1 1. Indra is overlord of heaven ; let him favor etc. etc.
In Ppp. (9) Indra is overlord of acts or rites (^kdrman) ;
in TS. and Q'JS., of chiefs
(^jyesihd).
12. The father of the Maruts is overlord of cattle; let him favor
etc.
etc.
In Ppp. (13) and in TS., this overlordship is ascribed, equivalently, to Rudra ; it is
wanting in Q^S.
13. Death is overlord of creatures {prajd) ; let him favor etc. etc.
In Ppp. (18) it is Prajapati instead of death ; and so also in ^^S. ; TS. has nothing
corresponding.
14. Yama is overlord of the Fathers ; let him etc. etc.
This item is number 19 in Ppp.; but in ^(JS. it is wanting; and in TS. Yama
is set over the earth. Here, again, the reading pitrenam is found in one ms. (Bp.).
Additional items in TS. are bfhaspdtir brdhmatiah, mitrdh satyanSm ( 3i 4> 7. '°i 8, 6, 9). The hymn is quoted in Kau;. (35. 5) in the ceremony for
male conception {puthsavana) ; and vs. 7 (unless it be rather vi. 95. 3, which the comm.
to vi. 95 holds) in Vait. 28. 20.
Translated: Weber, Ind. Stud. v. 22J
; Ludwig, p. 478 ;
Griffith, i. 229 ; Weber,
xviii. 264.
I .
Brought together from the cloud (
}pdrvatd), from the womb {yoni)
of the sky, from every member, let the virile organ, seed-placer of the
embryo, set (a-dhd) [it] like the feather on the shaft.
Or from the sky ' [as] womb.' That which is brought together ' ' is the thing (seed)
to be 'deposited.' The translation of d implies emendation to (drau; Weber conjectures
tsardu. The insertion of the feather in the arrow-shaft is elsewhere also the
subject of comparison as a work of effective skill ; cf. RV. x. 18. 14 b. The verse is