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vi. I- BOOK VI. THE ATHARVA-VEDA-SAMHITA. 282
I xi. 2 — so comm. and KegavaJ with offering thirteen different articles ; and again
(59. 25), in a rite for universal dominion (comm.), worshiping Atharvan ; further (note
to 42. II), a schol. adds it to vii.20. 6, to win wealth by Vedic knowledge. Vait. has
it in the agnistonia (17.2), repeated by the adhvaryu, as he looks at the udgatar.
None of the Kaug. uses seems at all characteristic.
Translated : Florenz, 249 or i ; Griffith, i. 245.
1. Sing at evening; sing greatly; put clearly, O son of Atharvan;
praise god Savitar.
All the mss. — and SPP., following them — put the avasana-xa3x\ after dhehi, thus
falsely dividing the irregular ^^^y/a^r/ into two padas 1 |_
2 : 12 J;
hence, of course, they accent
atharvana ; and most of the/ao'a-mss. (all save our Bp.) read -nah (as if the combination
-na st- were made by the common and allowable loss of the final h before st: but many
of our sam/iiid-mss. also have -fia/t si- ; SPP. makes no such report as to his). Both
the other texts make the proper division, after atharvana ; and so does Ppp., reading
aIso_gvJ>'a for the obscure dhehi. Both SV. and AQS. have a '_^a^ (which is better) for
the ivaKgaya; and SV. gives dytimadgdman for dyumdd dhehi. The comm. explains
doso Li.e. dosa (instr.) «J by ratrav api, understands brhat as the sdman of that name,
and supplies dhanam to dyuinat in b. In our edition, the accent-mark over the sa of
savitaram in c is lost.
2. Praise thou him who is within the river, son of truth (saiyd), [him]
the young, of unhateful speech, very propitious.
Again all the mss. spoil the structure of the verse by putting the division-mark after
siiniih. In both verses, SPP's text follows the mss., while ours emends in accordance
with the true sense—which is now further supported by the other text, and by Ppp.
An easier reading is offered by A^S., namely iam u stuhy antahsindhum sUnutk
satyasya yuvanam : adro-. Indra is called " son of truth " in RV. viii. 58 (69). 4 the
;
descriptions of the verse suit Savitar ill. The comm. understands the river {sindhu) ' ' as
" the ocean (saviudra'), in the midst of which the sun is seen rising," and foolishly gives
as alternative sense of yuvan " repeller (^yii) of darkness." The Anukr. apparently
scans 1 1 : 6-f 8 = 25.
3. May he, indeed, god Savitar, impel {su) for us many amrtas, both
the good praises, unto welfare.
The division of the mss. is this time that also of our text ; but the meter is pretty
hopeless (bhuri amrta would rectify b), and c apparently corrupt. Ppp. has, for b,
savisad vasztpatir vasiini (making a, b nearly equal RV. vii. 45. 3 a, b), and A^S. the
same with omission of vasiini. In c, Ppp. ends with siigdtum (perhaps ' to sing well
both good praises'); A(JS. reads ubhe suksiti sudhatuh. The Pet. Lex. l_vii.
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suggests, for c, tibhe srutl su gaiave: cf. RV. ix. 78. 2 ;
the varieties of reading show
that the pada was virtually unintelligible to the text-makers. The comm. takes susiutl
first as the brhat and rathantara samans, and then, alternatively, as the stuta and
(astra. Of course, if the verse is to be taken (as seems necessary) as a spoiled gayatri,
we ought to read savisat, with accent. The Anukr. seems to scan 1 1 -f6 : 9=26. [_See
p. Ixix, note 2.