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7. Be ye just here; go not after; adorn yourselves with all forms; I
shall come along with what is excellent ; become ye more abundant
through me.
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Go not after': that is, 'do not follow me as I go away' (so the comm.). The
verse is used in Kaug. (23. 6) in the ceremony of house-building, on the breaking of
previous silence; and again'(24. 16), in a rite for prosperity, by one setting out on a
journey, contemplating the house and its occupants.
61 (63). For success of penance.
[Aiharvan. — dvyrcam. dgneyam. dnustuhham.'\
In Paipp. (xx.) is found only the second half * of vs. i. The hymn is, according to
Kau^. (10. 22), to be pronounced at agrahayana full-moon, in a medhajanana rite (for
acquisition of sacred knowledge) ; also (57. 23), in the ceremony of reception of a Vedic
student, in the \jig7iikarya\, next after hymn 33 (both verses are quoted, each by its
pratlka) ; and the schol. (note to 53. 4) introduce both verses in \}a& godana ceremony.
* [_But R's notes give a variant for i b, as below !J
Translated: Henry, 24,87; Griffith, i.357.
1. In that, O Agni, penance with penance, we perform additional (.')
penance, may we be dear to what is heard, long-lived, very wise.
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What is heard ' (frw/i), the inspired or revealed word. Nearly all the mss. (all
ours save Bp.' M.) read priya instead of priyah at beginning of c. Ppp- has for b
upa preksamahe * vayajn. The comm. gives several diverse guesses at the sense of
the obscure first half-verse. |_The vs. recurs with variants at MGS. i. i. J 1 *|_R. sug-
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gests \k\-!i\ prksamahe (root pre) may be intended.
2. O Agni, we perform penance, we perform additional penance — we,
hearing things heard, long-lived, very wise.
It is questionable whether tipa-tapya in both these verses has not a more pregnant
meaning l_as above : BR., simply, Kasteiung leiden ' : Henry takes it as equivalent
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to simple tapya.
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62 (64) . To Agni : against enemies.
\Kafyapa Mdrlca. — Sgneyam.
JagaiJ-l
Found also, almost without variant, in Paipp. xx. Kaug (69. 7) uses it, with xii. 2,
in the preparation of the house-fire, with scattering of holy water. In Vait. (29.9) it
appears in the agnicayana.
Translated : Henry, 24, 88 ; Griffith, i. 357.
I. This Agni, lord of the good, household priest, conquered them of
increased virility (.'), as a chariot-warrior [conquers] footmen ; set down on
earth in the navel, brightly shining, let him put under foot them who
desire to fight [us].
Our padas a, c, d are b, c, d of a verse that is found in VS. xv. 51, TS. iv. 7. 133,
MS. ii. 12.4 with the following first pada : a vac6 mddhyam aruhad bhuranyus ; they
also read cdkitanas for vrddhdvrsnas, and, at beginning of c, prsthdprthivyas, and TS