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307 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK VI. -vi. 36
— Agni, unto our good praises.
1. Let Vai^vanara, for our aid, come forth hither from the distance
AQS. has this verse precisely as in our text, and so has VS. at xviii. 72 |_and (JQS.
has the pratlka, aj, but VS. xxvi. 8 has again the first two padas, with agnir ukthina
vahasa (see under the next verse) for third; and MS. iii. 16.4 has the latter version,
with the further variant of utya prd (i.e., doubtless, utya a prd) at the end of a.
Ppp. has the bad reading iltdyd pra; it further exchanges the third padas of i and 2,
and reads as 2 c upe 'mam sustutith mama.
2. Vaigvanara, our ally (sajus), hath come unto this our offering—
Agni, at our songs, in our distresses.
The two Sijtras have for c agnir ukthena %'ahasa (found in VS.MS. in combination
with I a, b); Ppp., as also noticed above, has for c our i c. The translation given
implies that dhhasu (which is read by all the mss. without exception, and is quoted so
in the commentary to Prat iv. 32) is the same with the usual dhhahsuj no stem dnhan
is found anywhere else ; the comm. foolishly explains it by abhigantavyesu, adj. to
ukihesu. The translation, moreover, represents the pada-tt\l reading of againat in a
as a : agamat; but it seems altogether likely that the true meaning is a : gamat ' may
he come.'
3. May Vaigvanara shape the praise and song of the Aiigirases ; may
he extend to them brightness (dyiimnd) [and] heaven (svar).
Of the two Siitras, CQS. supports our cdklpat (comm. cakrpat) in sense by reading
jijanat; AQS. has the better reading cakanat 'take pleasure in.' A(JS. also has
angirobhyas in a (both preserve the a of ang-^ ; Ppp. has no angirobhis. In b, Ppp.
and Q^QS. '\\3L\e. yajham for uktham; A(JS. has stoma for -mam, and in c omits a (if
is not a misprint);
Ppp. has/ra instead of at 'su.
it
36. In praise of Agni.
[Aiiarvan (svastyayanakdmah). — dgneyam.
gdyatram.^
Found also, imperfect, in Paipp. xix., and in other texts, as SV. (ii. 1058-60), etc.,
mentioned under the several verses. For the use of the hymn with its predecessor by
Kaug. (31. 5), see under the latter.
Translated : Florenz, 296 or 48 ; Griffith, i. 264.
1. To Vai9vanara, the righteous, lord of right, of light, we pray for
unfailing heat {gharntd).
The Saman version, as also that in VS. (xxvi. 6), in MS. (iv. ll.i), and AQS.
(viii. 10. 3), is precisely accordant with ours ;
that in ^(JS. (iii. 3. 5) has bhanum instead
oigkarmdm in c.
2. He shaped himself unto all things ; he, the controlling one, sends
out the seasons, drawing out the vigor (vdyas) of the sacrifice.
The verse is corrupt in Ppp., but the second and third padas in it exchange places,
as they do in the SV. version. S V. also reads, for a, yd iddm pratipaprathd, and has
svdr for vdyas in c ; it and all the other versions read rtun; our rtunr is quoted in
Prat. ii. 29, and in the comment to i. 68. The comm. reads in a vii^vah and cakrpe, and
some of our authorities (P.I.K.), with the great majority of SPP's, also have vtqvah;