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vi. 87- BOOK VI. THE ATHARVA-VEDA-SAMHITA. 346
2. Be thou just here; be not moved away; like a mountain, not
unsteady ; O Indra, stand thou fixed just here ; here do thou maintain
royalty.
RV.TB. have again -cacalis at end of b, and TB. has vyathislhas for dpa cyosthds
in a. The metrical contraction parvate 'va is not opposed by the Anultr. At beginning
of c, RV.TB.Ap. have the better reading indra ive 'ltd (to be read indre 've
'hd: whence, doubtless, the AV. version);
and, as the comm. gives the same, SPP. has
adopted it in his text, against all his authorities as well as ours. The AV. version
(found also in Ppp.) is not to be rejected as impossible ;
the person is himself addressed
in it as Indra : i.e., as chief. Ppp. has ni for u in d. ApQS. (xiv. 27. 7) has the RV.
version, except yajfiam for rdstram in d. In our text an accent-sign has dropped out
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under the sthe of -sthe 'hd in c-d.
3. Indra hath maintained this man fixed by a fixed oblation ; him may
Soma bless, and Brahmanaspati here.
RV. begins imdm indro ad-, and has, in d, tdsmd 11 for aydm ca. TB. (also ApQS.
xiv. 27. 7, which agrees with it throughout |_except bruvan for bravan^) has enam for
etdm in a, and tdsmai deva ddhi bravan for c. [_Our c, d occurred above, 5.3 c, d.J
88. To establish a sovereign.
\Atharvan. — dhrduvyam. dnustubham : j. trislui/i.]
The hymn does not occur in Paipp., but its first two verses are RV. x. 173. 4, 5 (continuation
of those corresponding to our 87). For its use by Kaug. with the preceding
hymn, see under the latter.
Translated: by the RV. translators and by Zimmer (p. 163), in part; and Ludwig,
p. 255 ; Griffith, i. 293.
1. Fixed [is] the sky, fixed the earth, fixed all this world of living
beings {jdgat), fixed these mountains ; fixed [is] this king of the people
(^iqdni).
RV. varies from this only in the order of padas, which is a, C, b, d. TB. (ii. 4. 2*)
and ApQS. (xiv. 27. 7) follow our order, but have dhruva ha for dhruvasas in c;
MB. (i. 3. 7) has our a, b, C.
2. Fixed for thee let king Varuna, fixed let divine Brihaspati, fixed for
thee let both Indra and Agni maintain royalty fixed.
The RV. verse differs in no respect from this.
3. Fixed, unmoved, do thou slaughter the foes ; make them that play
the foe fall below [thee] ;
[be] all the quarters {di^) like-minded, concordant
{sadhrydnc) ; let the gathering {sdmiti) here suit (kip) thee [who
art] fixed.
With d compare v. 19. 15 c. The comm. reads patayasva at end of b. The last
pada is jagatl. The comm. renders kalpatdm by samariha bhavatu.