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315 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK VI. -vi. 47
thou ; so, O sleep, do we comprehend thee here ; do thou, O sleep,
protect us from evil-dreaming.
This verse is repeated below as xvi. 5. 6.
The comm. renders -jdmi by -stri.
3. As a sixteenth, as an eighth, as a [whole] debt they bring together,
so do we bring together all evil-dreaming for him who hates us.
' Bring together,' i.e. 'pay off, discharge.' This verse is RV. viii. 47. 17 a-d, where,
however, is read sam-ndyatnasi also at end of b (instead of -yanii), and apiyd for
dvisati in d ; it is also found again below, with slight differences, as xix. 57. i .
' Eighth
is literally 'hoof (^aphd), from the eight hoofs of cattle etc. The sixteenth or eighth
is possibly the interest. All the authorities, for once, agree in reading ydtha rndm
(instead oi ydtha rndm), and it is accordingly received in both published texts.
47. For blessings : at the three daily libations.
[Aiigiras (!). — dgneyam ; z, vdifvadevl ; j. sdudhanvand. trdistubham.']
Found also in Paipp. xix. and in TS. (iii. 1.9'-^), and K^S. Not used by Kaug.
appears in Vait. (21. 7) in the agnistoma, with vi. 48 and ix. 1. 1 1-13, at the savanas.
Translated : Ludwig, p. 429 ; Florenz, 308 or 60 ; Griffith, i. 270.
1. Let Agni at the morning libation (sdvana) protect us, he that
belongs to all men (vdiqvdnard), all-maker, all-wealful; let him, the
purifier, set us in property (drdvina); may we be long-lived, provided
with
draughts.
Ppp. ends b mih pathikrd vifvakrstih, and TS. has tnahina, KQS. (ix. 3. 21) mahinam,
and MS. (i. 3. 36) v^vaqris, for v^vakft; all have drdvinam (for -ne) in c ; and
MS. reads pratdh sdvanat in a. LAs to the morning invocation of Agni, see Bloomfield,
JAOS. xvi. lo.J The comm. explains sahdbhaksds by samdnasomapandh ptitrapantradibhih
sahabhojand vi.
2. May all the gods, the Maruts, Indra, not leave us at this second
libation ; long-lived, speaking what is dear to them, may we be in the
favor of the gods.
Neither Ppp. nor TS. nor K^S. (ix. 14. 17) have any variant in this verse.
3. This third libation [is] of the poets (kavt), who rightfully {rt^na)
sent out the bowl ; let those Saudhanvanas, who have attained heaven,
conduct our happy-offering unto what is better.
That is (a), of the Ribhus, one of whose merits, leading to the conferral of immortality
upon them, was their service to the ceremonial in connection with the libational
bowl, which they made four. |_For this the comm. gives ample citations, e.g. RV.
i. 161. 2. J Ppp. combines, in c, sdudhanvand 'mrtd "nafdnSs, and ends the verse with
nayatha. TS. has the insignificant variants of suvar in c, and vdslyas in d; K^S.
(x. 3. 21) reads trtiya-savanam in a, and no 'bhi vasiyo n- in d.