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283 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK VI. -vi. 3
2. Praise and prayer to Indra.
lAtAarvan. — vdnaspatyam sdumyam. dusniham : i-j.f>arosnik.'\
Found also in Paipp. xix. (in the order i, 3, 2). The second verse is used by Kaug.
(29. 27) in a remedial rite against demons, while partaking of a rice-mess boiled over
birds' nests. Vait. (16. 13) has the hymn in the agnistoma, when the soma is turned
into the large wooden vessel.
Translated : Florenz, 251 or 3 ;
Griffith, i. 245 ; Bloomfield, 66, 458.
1. For Indra, O priests, press the soma, and add the water; [Indra]
who shall hear the praiser's words and my call.
Or, 'the words and call of me the praiser.' With b compare RV. vii. 32. 6 d. Ppp.
has, for b, C, ^rnolana tu dhdvata : stotriyam havarit (rnavad dhavath tu nah.
The comm. regards a dhdvata as referring to the process called ddhavana, performed
for the addbhya graha, and refers to ApQS. xii. 8. 2 : or, alternatively, to the general
purification of the soma. The concluding four syllables of each verse seem like
secondary appendages.
2. Unto whom enter the drops of soma-plant (dndhas) as birds a tree
thou exuberant one, drive away the demon-possessed scorners.
Ppp. reads tvd for yain in a. The comm. takes andhasas as nom. pi., explaining it
by annabhutds.
3. Press ye the soma for the soma-drinker, for the thunderbolt-bearing
Indra ;
young, conqueror, lord [is] he, greatly praised.
The first two padas are RV. vii. 32. 8 a, b ; S V. i. 285 a, b. Ppp. reads in a -pdvane,
humoring the meter.
3. To various divinities : for protection.
\Atharvan (svastyayanakdmah). — ndndddivatam. jdgatam : i. pathydbrhati^
Found also in Paipp. xix. In Kaug. (50.13) hymns 3-7 (^pdtath na iti pahca;
the comm. says it means ' with five verses ') are directed to be used with vi. I etc. for
success in traffic (see under h. i). Hymn 3 is connected with i. 26, 27 and vi. 76 at the
beginning of the welfare-rites (50. 4), and it is reckoned (note to 25. 36) to the svastyayana
gana. By Vait. (16.9), hymns 3-6 are muttered in the agnistoma by the hotar after
the prdtaranuvdka.
Translated : Florenz, 251 or 3
; Griffith, i. 246.
1. Protect us, O Indra-and-Pushan ;
let Aditi, let the Maruts protect;
O child of the waters, ye seven rivers, protect ; let Vishnu protect us,
also the heaven.
The accent of c is in part against all rule and analogy, and doubtless corrupt ; we
ought to read sindliavah sapta pdtdna.
2. Let heaven-and-earth protect us in order to assistance {abhisti);
let the pressing-stone protect, let Soma protect us from distress ; let
the fortunate goddess SarasvatI protect us ; let Agni protect us — the
propitious protections that are his.