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277 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK V. -v. 30
3. In that thou hast shown malice {dru/i), hast cursed at woman [or]
at man through thoughtlessness, deliverance and etc.
4. In that thou art prostrate (p) from sin that is mother-committed
and that is father-committed, deliverance and etc. etc.
Grohmann and Zimmer (p. 395) understand here
'
sin committed against mother or
father ' : doubtless wrong.
5. What thy mother, what thy father, sister (Jami), and brother shall
infuse {1 sdrjaias) — heed {sev) thou the opposing remedy; I make thee
one who reaches old age.
Sdrjatas is a puzzle, as regards both form and sense ; 'give (Ludwig) and ' 'offer'
(Muir) are wholly unsatisfactory
'
; weave witchcraft ' (Pet. Lex.) is quite too pregnant.
Ppp. gives no help ; it reads in c chevasya after pratyak. The translation takes the
word as a root-aorist subj. from srj.
6. Be thou here, O man, together with thy whole mind ;
go not after
etc.
Yama's (two) messengers ;
go unto the strongholds of the living.
The Anukr. takes no notice of the defective first pada ; the addition of evd (cf. i c)
after ihd would be an easy and natural filling-out. Ppp. has for a ehi ehi punar ehi,
and reads hi for ihi in d.
7. Being called after, come thou again, knowing the up-going of the
road, the ascent, the climb (akrdmana), the course (dyand) of every living
man.
8. Be not afraid ; thou shalt not die ; I make thee one who reaches
old age ; I have exorcised {nir-vac) the ydkpna, the waster of limbs, from
thy limbs.
Ppp. reads for \> jaradastir bhavisyasi.
9. The splitter of limbs, the waster of limbs, and the heart-ache that
is thine, the ydksma hath flown forth like a falcon, forced (safi) very far
away by [my]
voice.
The form sddhd is noted in Prat. iii. 7. Ppp. has for a qlrsarogam angarogam,
combines fyenai 'va in c, and reads nuttas for sadhas in d |_and vdcd?\. The Anukr.
ignores the abbreviation of iva to 'va in c.
I o.
The two seers, Wakeful-and-Vigilant, sleepless and he that is watchful
— let them, the guardians of thy breath, watch by day and by night.
Ppp. reads, for c, d, te ie prdnasya goptaro diva svapnam ca jagratzi. Pada-X^fX
bodhaapratlbodhau, by Prat. iv. 96. LCf. viii. i. 13; MGS. ii. 15. i and p. 153, s.v. bodha-.\
11. This Agni [is] to be waited on; here let the sun arise for thee;
come up out of death's profound black darkness.
In c, udehi is a mis-reading for uddhi, which is found in all the mss. except Bp.>
12. Homage to Yama, homage be to Death; homage to the Fathers,
and [to them] who conduct [away] ; that Agni who understands (vid)