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267 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK V. -V. 26
9. Go apart, O Barhatsama ; let an embryo lie unto thy womb (j/c^m);
the gods, soma-drinkers, have given thee a son partaking of both.
Ludwig understands the last epithet as meaning 'belonging to us both,' which is not
impossible; Weber, ' der doppelt schafft'; it is literally 'possessing what is of both.'
Ppp. has for c dadan te puirath devd. Bdrhatsdme (p. -liatosd-') is an anomalous formation
: a stem -md is against all analogy as fern, of a vrddhi-derivative, while -mi (which
Ludwig assumes) is equally wrong as a feminine ;
Ppp. has the same form ; it doubtless
means 'daughter of Brhatsaman.' To make c of full meter is impossible without
harshness.
10. O Dhatar, with best form, in the two groins of this woman do
thou set a male [ptimdns) son, to be born in the tenth month.
This verse also (like 2, above) occurs in the additions to RV. x. 184 and to AGS.
i. 14.3 [_p. 37, transl.J and in MP. |_i.
12.6J,
with the variants: vlsnoh* iox dhatah in a,
and asyam narydm gavinyam (MP. -nyam [_in mss. E. and W., -nyam in the Oxford
text J)
for b; AGS. \\2iS piitrdii and MP. gdrbhain in c.
Ppp. begins here a new hymn
reading savituq\ qresthena I qresthena 2; visnoh (resihena: tvastuh qrcsthena
; 3.
The other texts omit any such variants of vs. 10. |_Cf. also MGS. ii. 18. 4 c and p. 1 56,
%.y. visnoh. \ *[_Oxford text, z/Zjwo.J \\0x A%^bhagaox bhagah. Roth sent W. three
notes on this vs. and they do not seem to agree.
11. O Tvashtar, with best etc. etc.
1 2. O Savitar (' impeller '), with best etc. etc.
13. O Prajapati, with best etc. etc.
In b Ppp. has ndbhd for ndryd.\
The Anukr., though taking no notice of the extra syllable in 12 a, feels that it cannot
pass over the two in 13 a, and defines accordingly, with mechanical correctness.
26. Accompan3dng a sacrifice.
\Brahman. — dvSdafakam. vdstospatyam uta mantroktabahudevatyam . 1, j. 2-p. drey usnth ;
2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, II. 2-p. prdjdpatyd brhati ; J.jp. virdd gdyatri ; g. 3-p. pipilikamadhyd
purausnih : i-ii. ekdvasdna ; 12. pardlifakvari 4-p.jagati.'\
LPartly unmetrical.J Found also in Paipp. ix. (in verse-order 1-3, 5, 4, 6-8, 11, 10,
9, 12). Quoted in Kau^. 23. i, in a ceremony of consecration of a new house, and given
in tht paddkati (see note to Kaug. 19. i) among the pustika mantras. Used in Vait.
16. 6 in counteracting an enemy's soma-offering {agnistoma') ;
and vs. 12 a, b in 19.4,
also in the agnistoma, with a cup for the Agvins. Neither treatise teaches us anything
whatever as to the real meaning of the hymn. The matter is in considerable part
metrical, though in part also too irregular to be so called.
Translated: Ludwig, p. 27 ;
Griffith, i. 231 ; Weber, xviii. 267.
I. The sacrificial formulas {ydjus) at the sacrifice, the fuel, hail! let
Agni, foreknowing, here join for you.
Or 'join {yuj) you.' 'Join' is probably used in the sense of 'duly use or apply'
(Ludwig, " anwenden "). The verse is plainly composed of two tristubh padas, but the
Anukr. refuses to resolve sudhS, and so reckons only 21 syllables.