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V. 27- BOOK V. THE ATHARVA-VEDA-SAMHITA. 2/0
2 [2 b]. A god among gods, the god anoints the roads with honey
(vidd/ui),
with ghee.
The end of this verse is the proper end of vs. 2 ;
MS., however, adds to it the first
pada of our 3
; and it reads for a devd devebhyo devayandn. In b, VS. MS. have
anaktit; TS., a 'nakti; and VS.TS. set the avasana-m-ixV. next \>&ioxe. pathds
3. With honey he attains the sacrifice, pleased, the praised of men
(ndrd^dnsa), Agni the well-doing, the heavenly impeller (savitdr), having
all
choice things.
All the other texts, including Ppp., read in a pn'nands, of which ovr prain- is doubtless
to be regarded as a blundering corruption. VS.TS. have before it naksase ; and,
in b, agne, with interpunction after it; Ppp. omits agne (or agnih) ; MS. adds as third
pada the first pada of our and the other texts' vs. 4. Our pada-text rightly divides the
verse into three padas [^10
: 8 :
9J,
though the Anukr. acknowledges only two.
4. Here he cometh with might {(dvas) unto the various ghees, praising,
he the carrier, with homage, —
It needs the first part of the next verse to end off this, and the other texts so divide.
They have also the much easier reading ghrtina iax ghrta cit ; Ppp. gives ghrtena ide
vahnim namasa 'gnim sruco etc. (adding 5 a). VS.TS. have a single interpunction
after ndmasaj MS. makes its verse out of our 4 b and J a, b, with interpunction after
5 a. LVS.TS.MS. accent fdand.\
5 [4 c]. Agni, unto the spoons, at the sacrifices (adhvard), the profferings
{fraydj). [5.] May he sacrifice his greatness, Agni's,
The Yajus-texts have at the beginning agnhn (also Ppp. : see under vs. 4), and later
praydtsu (which the TS. /arfiz-text divides praydt^su ; ours g\\e& pra°ydksit). MS's
verse is made of ours with our 4 b prefixed.
6 [5 b]. [He] crossing (.') among pleasant profferings ; both the Vasus
stood and the greater bestower of good [vdsu).
This whole verse in our text is corrupt, and the translation, of course, only a mechanical
one. The Yajus-texts have sd tin (TS. i) mandra sttpraydsah (TS. mandrasu
praydsah : this variation shows how uncertain the tradition was as to the sense of the
passage); and MS. makes here the insertion spoken of above, reading supraydsd
stdrlinan: barhlso milrdmahdh j all then finish the verse with vdsuf cetistho vasudhaiamag
ca. Ppp. is spoiled, but appears to read at the beginning svenamindrasu. The
makers of our texts perhaps understood -dhataras as plural of -dhdtr ; the padadivision
vasu°dhataras is specially prescribed by Prat. iv. 45. The metrical definition
concerns only the number of syllables :
8 -Hi 2 = 20. LPpp. ends with -dhdtamof ca.^
7 [6]. The heavenly doors all defend always after his course (vratd) —
This verse is doubtless corrupt in its second half ; the Yajus-texts, and also Ppp.,
read instead vrata dadante agndh (Ppp. 'gneli) ; and MS. has before it viqvd, and
Ppp. viqved. The Anukr. ignores the evident tristubh character of a.
8 [6 c]. Lording it with Agni's domain of wide expansion, [7.] dripping,
worshipful, close, let dawn and night favor this our inviolable (.'' adhvard)
sacrifice.