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30I TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK VI. -vi. 29
2. These have taken fire about ; these have led the cow about ; they
have gained themselves fame {qrdvas) among the gods — who shall
venture to attack them
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The RV. has the same verse at x. 155. 5 (also VS., xxxv. 18, precisely the same text
with RV.), reading, for a, \i, piri ^mi gam anesata pdry agnim ahrsata. Ppp. transposes
a and b and reads pary agnim aharsata (a false form). The arsata of our text
is plainly nothing but a corruption ; and part of the mss. (including our P. M.W.I.) have
instead arisata |_or arlsata ; K. risaiiij.
3. He who first attained (a-sad) the slope [of heaven], spying out the
road for many, who is master of these bipeds, who of the quadrupeds —
to that Yama, to death, be homage.
With the former half-verse is to be compared RV. x. 14. i a, b : pareyivahsam
pravdto mahir dnu b.p. anupaspa^dndm (which is AV. xviii. i. 49 a, b); d is the last
pada also of RV. x. 165.4 (of which a, b are found here in 29. i); c is nearly equal to
RV. X. 121. 3 c (our iv. 2. i c ; xiii. 3. 24 c). Ppp. follows RV. in c in putting i^e before
asya (reading ii;ay asya'). Our padaAtxX. accents asyd : t(^e ; in RV. also asyd is
accented. The verse lacks two syllables of being a full jagatl. |_Pischel discusses
the verse, Ved. Stud. ii. 73 cf. : 66. J [Ppp. \i2& pravatasasada.\
29. Against birds of ill omen.
\Bhrgu. — ydniyam uta niirrtam. bdrhatam : /, 2. virdnndmagdyatrt ; j. ^-av. y-p. virddasti."]
Not found in Paipp. Used by Kaug. (46. 7) with the two preceding hymns.
Translated : Florenz, 287 or 39 Griffith, 260 ; i. ; Bloomfield, 166, 475.
1. Them yonder let the winged missile come upon ; what the owl
utters, [be] that to no purpose, or that the dove makes its track {padd)
at the fire.
The second and third padas are RV. x. 165. 4 a, b (we had d in the last verse of the
preceding hymn); RV. omits vd'xnc; its addition damages the meter of the pada, but
the Anukr. overlooks this. |_Padas b, C also occur at MGS. ii. 1 7. i d — cf. under h. 27.
2. Thy two messengers, O perdition, that come hither, not sent forth
or sent forth,
to our house — for the dove and owl be this no place.
The comm. reads etdit for elds in a ;
he renders dpadam by and^rayabhfitam.
3. May it fly hither in order to non-destruction of heroes ; may
it
settle (a-sad) here in order to abundance of heroes ; turned away, do
thou speak away, toward a distant stretch {?samvdi); so that in Yama's
house they may look upon thee [as] sapless, may look upon [thee as]
empty {dbhuka).
The sense would favor the accent dvairahatya in a ; and avlrahatyayai, which the
comm. reads, would be a further improvement. The comm. also h2i% papadyai at end of
a, and, for c, param eva paravatam. He explains dbhukam by dgatavantam. At the
end of e, grhi ought, of course, to be grhi; but most of the mss. (all of ours that are
noted) \\7ivt grhi, and SPP. also has admitted it into his text. LAs to Yama's house,
cf. Hillebrandt, Ved. Afythol., i. 512. For caiafdn, see Gram. § 1008 b.J