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433 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK VII. -vii. 68
of the sacred texts (referring to ApQS. xv. 21. 8), and regards it as a spell for recovering
what has been lost by being learned under wrong circumstances— in cloudy weather,
in sight of green barley, within hearing of cattle, etc.
67 (69). For recovery of sense, etc.
[Brahman.— itmadevatyam. purahparosnig brhati^
Not found in Paipp. Employed by Kaug. for several purposes: first (45. 17, 18),
after the end of the va^agamana, in a rite of due acceptance of sacrificial gifts, after
any ceremony performed ; second, in the goddna ceremony (54. 2), with vi. 53. 2 ; third,
in the Vedic student ceremonies (57.8), when supplying the place of a staff lost or
destroyed ; fourth, in the savayajtlas (66. 2), with v. 10. 8 and vi. 53, with the direction
iti pratitnantrayate ; it is also reckoned (9. 2), with 66 etc., to the brhachanti ganaj
and the schol. add it (note to 6.2) to hymn 106 in a rite of expiation for anything spilt
or forgotten in the parvan sacrifices, and further, in the upanayana, in the reception of
girdle and staff (notes to 56. i and 3). In Vait. (18.4) it appears in the agnistoma,
following the distribution of the fires.
Translated: Henry, 26, 90; Grifiith, i. 359.
I. Again let sense (indriyd) come to me, again soul, property, and
brdhmana (sacred knowledge) ; let the fires of the sacred hearth again
officiate just here in their respective stations.
The verse occurs in QQS. viii. 10. 2, with mam for 7nd in a, and, in c, d, dhisnyaso '
yathdsthanath dharayantdm ihdi'va; and the prattka piinar mam dltv indriydm is
found in TA. i. 32. I, but might rather be intended to quote the parallel but quite different
verse found at AGS. iii. 6. 8 : punar mdm ditv indriyam pitnar dyuh putiar bhagah ;
punar dravinam aiiu mdm punar brdhmanam ditu mdm ; which MB. (i. 6. 33) also
has, with md in c and d. |_Cf. TA. i.30. i ; also MGS. i. 3. i, and p. 152.
J AGS. adds
a second verse, of which the first half corresponds with our c, d : ime ye dhisnyaso
agnayo yathasthdnam iha kalpatdm [_cf. MGS. i. 3. ij. The Anukr. seems to scan a
and c as 7 syllables each.
68 (70, 71). Praise and prayer to Sarasvati.
[/-^. Qathtdti. — dvyrcam. sdrasvatam. i.anustubh; 2. tristubh. — j. Qathtdti. —
sdrasvatam.
gdyatrt.'\
None of the verses are found in Paipp. Here again the Anukr., the comm., and
some mss. differ in division from our first mss., and make our third verse a separate
hymn.* In Kaug. (81.39) the first two verses (= hymn 70) come in with other Sarasvati
verses in the piirmedha ; the third verse (= hymn 71) not with them, in spite of
its kindred character, but in both the brhat and laghuqdnti ganas (9. 2,4). Vait. introduces
the hymn (doubtless the two verses) twice (8.2, 13), once with hymn 40, once
with hymn 9 and other verses, in praise of Sarasvati. *LSo also SPP's text. The
decad-division cuts the hymn between vss. 2 and 3 : cf. p. 389.J
I
Translated: Henry, 26, 90; Grifiith, i.3S9-
I. O Sarasvati, in thy courses, in thy heavenly domains, O goddess,
enjoy thou the offered oblation ;
grant us progeny, O goddess.
The second half-verse is the same with 20. 2 c, d, and nearly so with 46. i c, d.