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vi. 97- BOOK VI. THE ATHARVA-VEDA-SAKIHITA. 352
1. An overcomer {abhibhti) [is] the sacrifice, an overcomer Agni, an
overcomer Soma, an overcomer Indra ; that I may overcome (abhi-as) all
fighters, so would we, Agni-offerers, pay worship with this oblation.
The comm. paraphrases agnihotras by agnau juhvatah.
|_The Anukr. balances the
deficiencies of a, b by the redundancies of c, d.J
2. Be there svadhd, O Mitra-and-Varuna, inspired ones ; fatten {pitni)
ye here with honey our dominion, rich in progeny ;
drive off perdition far
away; put away from us any committed sin.
Ppp. has, in a, b, prajdpatis for vip. praj
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in c, dvesas for dfiram ; and, for d, as7ndi
ksatram vacd dhattam ojah. The second half-verse is RV. i. 24. 9 c, d, also found in
TS. (1.4.45') 3.nd MS. (i. 3. 39); all have bddhasva and mumugdhi, 2d sing.; for
diirdm in c, RV. has diir^, TS. (like Ppp.) dvhas, and MS. omits it, prefixing instead
drd to bddhasva. The comm. takes svadhd in a as havirlaksanatn annam. Only the
first half-verse is jagatt.
3. Be ye excited after this formidable hero; take hold, O companions,
after Indra, the troop-conqueror, kine-conqueror, thunderbolt-armed, conquering
in the course (djntan),
slaughtering with force.
This verse appears again as xix. 13.6, in the
midst of the hymn to which it belongs,
and which is found also in various other texts. The verse corresponds to RV. x. 103. 6,
SV. ii. 1204, VS. xvii. 38, and one in TS. iv. 6. 4', MS. ii. 10.4. They all reverse the order
of the two half-verses, begin our c with gotrabhidam govidam, and have, instead of our
a, imdm sajdtd dnu vlrayadhvam j TS. differs from the rest by reading 'nu for ami in
our b. The comm. explains djma by ajanaqilatk ksepanaqilarii qatrubalatn. [_The
word " in " were better omitted from the translation of d.J
98. To Indra: for victory.
\Atharvan. — dindram. trdistubham : z. brhatigarbhS "stSrapanitih-l
Found also in Paipp. xix. Besides the uses in Kau^. of hymns 97-99, as stated
under 97, hymn 98 is further applied, with vi. 67, in another battle rite (16.4); and the
schol. add it to vii. 86, 91, etc., in the indramahotsava (note to 140.6). Vait. also
(34. 13) has it in the sattra, when the king is armed.
Translated : Griffith, i. 299.
1. May Indra conquer, may he not be conquered; may he king it as
over-king among kings; be thou here one to be famed, to be praised, to
be greeted, to be waited on, and to be reverenced.
The verse is found also in TS. (ii. 4. 14^) and MS. (iv. 12.3), but with a very different
second half: c, TS. vifvd ht bhiiyah pftand abhisttr, MS. vl(;vd abhisHh pftand
jayaty ; d, both tipasddyo namasyb ydtha ^sat. In the first half, at end of a, V{?>. jayate
at end of b, TS. rdjayati, MS. -yate. The last pada occurs again as iii. 4. i d. The comm.
regards the king as identified with Indra through the hymn. LMS. \i2i&jayatiiox jaydti.\
2. Thou, O Indra, art over-king, ambitious {qravasyii), thou art the
overcomer of people ; do thou rule over these folk (vi^ds) of the gods
long-lived, unfading {ajdrd) dominion be thine.