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329 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK VI. -vi. 64
They read, in c, i^ yamina ivdth yamya (TS.MS. -yti) samvidand 'tiam^ (TS. -mdm~)
nake (TS. -kani) ddhi rohayai 'nam (TS. -ye 'indiit). Ppp., as noticed above, has c, d
of this verse as 2 c, d, reading -dano 'itame ndke (like V.S.MS.). The last pada is
found also as that of i. 9. ;
2, 4 xi. 1.4. With the contraction bedhise 'ha, the verse
would be a good tristubh.
|_The vs. recurs at vi. 84.4.J
4. Thou coUectest together for thyself, O Agni, bull, all things from
the foe (.''); thou art kindled in the track of sacrifice {id); do thou bring
to us good things.
This is a RV. verse, found at x. 191. i (vss. 2-4 are our next hymn), and is also to
be met with at VS. xv. 30, TS. ii. 6. 11 4, and MS. ii. 13. 7 — in all its occurrences offering
precisely the same text. It was noticed above that it occurs in Ppp., but not in
connection with the three preceding verses of this hymn — with which, indeed, it has
nothing to do as regards sense. It was pointed out in the note to Prat. ii. 72 that the
prescription in that rule of J as the final of only iddyds heiore pada seems a strong indication
that this verse was not a part of the AV. text as recognized by the Prat. The
comm. explains tdas by iddya bhumydh. |_For consistency, sdm sant ought to be
printed sdm-sam.\
64. For concord,
\^Atharvan. — sdmmanasyam. vdifvadevam. dnustubham: \2. tristubh'\^
The first two verses are found in Paipp. xix. The whole hymn is RV. x. 191. 2, 3, 4,
and is also read in TB. ii. 4. 44-5, and (with the order of the verses inverted) in MS.
ii. 2. 6. In neither of these texts does the first verse of the RV. hymn (our 63. 4) stand
in connection with the other verses ; and as the situation of the RV. hymn is one that
calls for three verses only, it is pretty evident that the first verse (which also has nothing
to do with the others in point of sense) is a later addition, and has also, by an
extremely curious process, not paralleled elsewhere in our text, been added at the end
of our 63, in order to stand in its RV. relation to the other verses. See Oldenberg,
Die Hymnen des RV., i. 244. The hymn is used by Kaug. (12. 5) in a rite for harmony,
with iii. 30, V. i, etc.
Translated: by the RV. translators; and, as an AV. hymn, by Ludwig, p. 372;
Grill, 31, 164; Griffith, i. 280 ; Bloomfield, 136, 492.
1. Do ye concur; be ye closely combined; let your minds be concurrent,
as the gods of old sat concurrent about their portion.
The other texts begin sdm gachadhvam sdm vadadhvam (but M^S. j'anidhvam');
at the end, TB. reads (if it be not a misprint) upasata; the purve gives, at any rate, a
past meaning to -te.
LPoona ed. has -ata.\
2. [Be] their counsel {mdntra) the same, their gathering the same, their
course (vratd) the same, their intent alike (sahd); I offer for you with the
same oblation ;
do ye enter together into the same thought {c^tas).
The other texts differ from ours in the first half-verse only in this, that RV.TB. read
mdnas instead of vratdm in b ; but our c is their d (TB.* having sathjnanena for samdnina),
and their c agrees nearest with our d, TB. reading s. kMo abhi sdm rabhadhvam,
RV. s. mdntram abhi mantraye vah, and MS. s. krdttim abhi mantrayadhvam.
Ppp. has, for b, samanam cittath saha vo mandnsi, and omits d. The Anukr. omits
to describe the verse, as a tristubh. *LTB. has 3\&o yajdtnas iorjuhomi.j