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vii. 83- BOOK VII. THE ATHARVA-VEDA-SAMHITA. 450
1. In the waters, O king Varuna, is built for thee a golden house;
thence let the king of firm courses release all bonds {ddman).
All the authorities have mithds at end of b, and SPP. admits this in his text,
although it is a palpable misreading for mitis \c.i. Roth, ZDMG. xlviii. 107 J, which is
given by Ppp. and by A^S. in the corresponding verse (iii. 6. 24) our text has by emendation
niitds ; the comm. makes for j/iiiJias the forced interpretation ananyasadharanah
;
paresdm anabhigamyo vd. Our text also makes the clearly called-for emendation of
dhamani to datnani LRoth, I.e., p. in
108J d (the translation is made accordingly),
and of dhamno-dhdmnas in 2 a to da-
;
yet not only all AV. authorities, but also
Ppp. and AQS., are opposed to it in both verses and a whole series of texts in vs. 2
;
it is not without sufficient reason, then, that SPP. retains dhd-, although we can only
wonder at the wide-spread corruption of the text. The comm. explains dkdmdni
muruatu by sthandny asmadlydni tyajatu. The AQ!S. version of the verse reads:
dvipe rdjho vartinasya grho miio hiranyayah : sa no dhrtavrato rdjd dhdmno-dhdmna
iha muhcaiu. Ppp. has its t(.like A(JS. ; in d it reads dhdmd vi no suce.
2. From every bond, O king, here, O Varuna, release us ;
if "O waters,
inviolable ones!" if "O Varuna!" we have said, from that, O Varuna,
release
us.
The whole verse is found in many other texts : VS. vi. 22 b, C ; TS. i. 3. 1
1 ' ; MS.
i. 2. 18; AgS. iii. 6. 24; ggS. viii.12.11; LgS. v. 4. 6: TB. 11.6.6^ and VS. xx. i8
have padas c-€; Land MGS., ii. 1. 1 1, has "Cat pratlka : of. p. 151, under dhdmno\. All,
including also Ppp., as noted above, begin with dhamno-dhdmnah (so SPP. : the comm.
explains by sarvasmdd rogasthdndt; our text emends to da-: |_see note to vs. ij);
VS.ggS.LgS. have (in a-b) rdjahs tito ; all, as also Ppp., have no tnutica in both b
and e ; VS. unaccountably gives dhiis instead of apas in c (but it has apas in xx. 18) ;
TS.MS.TB. accent dghnyds and, with LQS., omit the iti after it; for ydd iicimd in
d, VS.TS.TB.AgS.ggS.LgS. read qdpdmahe (printed sayd-, LQS.), while MS. has
(^dpdrnahdi. The accent aghnyas (as nom.) and the reading vdruna (voc.) are inconsistent,
and dghnyds of TS. etc. seems to be preferable ; but all the AV. pada-ms,&.
(except a single one of SPP's) read vdrunah, though all the samhitd-mss. without
exception combine vdriind 'ti. Our translation implies dghnyds (or aghnydS) ;
the
comm. says he aghnydh. Padas c, d are repeated below as xix. 44. 9 a, b ; they relate
doubtless to adjurations made in support of what is false. |_The Anukr. seems to sanction
our pronouncing the dmredita as six syllables.J
3. Loosen up the uppermost fetter from us, O Varuna, [loosen] down
the lowest, off the midmost ; then may we, O Aditya, in thy sphere
(vratd), be guiltless unto Aditi.
The verse is RV. i. 24. 1 5, and found also as VS. xii. 12, and in TS. (i. 5. 1 1 3 et al.),
MS. (i. 2. 18 et al.), SV. i. 589 (Naigeya appendix 1.4), and MB. (i. 7. 10). All
agree in reading dthd at beginning of c instead of
our ddhd (the comm. has aiha), and
SV. and MB. further put vaydm after vratd in c, while SV. accents andgdsas in d.
|_Knauer, Index to MGS., p. 148, cites many occurrences of the verse. J
below as xviii. 4. 69. J
[_ Repeated
4. Release from us, O Varuna, all fetters, that are uppermost, lowest,
that are Varuna's ; remove from us evil-dreaming [and] difficulty ; then
may we go to the world of the well-done.