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28/ TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK VI. -vi. 9
Ppp. has, for a, yebhis soma sahantya, and, for c, tend no 'vita |_that is, avita\
bhuvah, thus relieving the embarrassing change of number [_in the verbj from a, b to C
emendation to vocatdt in our c would accomplish the same result.
3. By what, O gods, ye did repel {vr) the mights of the Asuras, by
that do ye yield refuge unto us.
Ppp. begins \i'\\!a yani, and has correspondingly tebhis for tena in c.
This facilitates
the rendering of avrnldhvam by its natural meaning 'did choose'; there is no other
known example of a «a-form from vr ' repel.' The comm. renders it tatah prthakkrtya
yiiyatk sambhaktavantah.
LPpp. has for c tebhir na adhi vocata.\
8. To win a woman's love.
\^Jamadagni. — kdmdtmaddivatam.
pathydpankti.']
Not found in Paipp. Used by Kaug. (35. 21), in the rites concerning women, with
vi. 9 and 102 and ii. 30, for bringing a woman under one's control.
Translated: Weber, Ind. Stud. (1862) v. 261 ; Florenz, 257 or 9; Grill, 54, 158;
Griffith, i. 248 ; Bloomfield, 100, 459.
1. As the creeper (libiijd) has completely embraced the tree, so do
thou embrace me — that thou mayest be one loving me, that thou mayest
be one not going away from me.
The refrain of the hymn is found twice above, at the end of i. 34. 5 ; ii. 30. i. SPP.
The Anukr.
here again, in opposition to his mss., gives the /a«/a-reading dpa°gdh in e.
takes no notice of the metrical deficiency of a |_but see note to 7. i J.
do I
2. As the eagle, flying forth, beats down his wings upon the earth, so
beat down thy mind — that thou etc. etc.
The comparison here is a strikingly ineffective one, and the attempts of the translators
to give it aptness are to no purpose.
3. As the sun goeth at once about heaven-and-earth here, so do I go
about thy mind — that thou etc.
etc.
Part of SPP's mss. read paryditi m b. The comm. gives qlghram 'swiftly' as the
meaning of sadyas.
9. To win a woman's love.
\_Jamadagni. — kdmdtmaddivatam.
dnustubham.'\
Found also in Paipp., but in ii. (not in xix., like the hymns that precede and follow).
Used by Kauq. (35. 21) with the preceding hymn, for the same purpose.
Translated: Weber, Ind. Stud. v. 264 ; Florenz, 258 or 10; Griffith, i. 249 ;
Bloomfield,
1 01, 459.
1. Want (vdfich) thou the body of me, the feet ; want the eyes ;
want the
thighs ;
let the eyes, the hair of thee, lusting after me, dry up with love.
Ppp. puts tanvdm (not -am) after paddu in a, reads vdccha in b, begins c with
;
akso,
adds osthdu after kegas, and ends with dsyatdm. Read aksyaii in c in our text (an
accent-sign omitted over the ck). LDelbriick, Vergleichende Syntax, i.386, joins mam
with kamena :
so Gr^goire, KZ. xxxv. 83.
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