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459 TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK VII. -vii.
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3. The eager gods, O god, that thou didst bring — them,' O Agni,
send forward in [thine] own station (sadhdstha) ; having eaten, having
drunk sweet things, assign to this man good things, ye good ones
(vdsn).
This and the following verse are given together in VS. (viii. 18, 19), TS. (i. 4. 44^-3),
MS. (i. 3. 38), but in different order and combination : namely, in VS., our 4 before 3,*
and in the others our 4 a, b and 3 c, d as one verse, and our 3 a, b and 4 c, d as a following
one. In our 3 a, VS. begins with yan av-, and TS. ends with devan ((-) ; in c, all
end with -sa( ca 7i{^ve, and after it VS. has asini, and TS.MS. 'sine. Ppp. reads, in b,
preraya punar agne sve sadhasthe. The fourth pada is deficient. *|_ More precisely,
our 4 a-C with 3 d before our 3 a-c with 4 d.J
4. We have made for you easily accessible seats, O gods, ye that have
come enjoying me at the libation ; carrying, bearing [your] own good
things, ascend ye to heaven after the good hot drink (.-').
TS. (as above) reads at the beginning svaga, and later in a sddanam, MS. sddand
krnomij in b, VS. MS. have -gmi^ddm sdvanam jus-, TS. sdvane 'ddm j-\ Ppp. also
has krnomi, followed by the unintelligible ^a casle 'dam savaiie jusaiiah j
the AV. text
(p. sdvane : md) is apparently a corruption of sdvane 'ma, which the comm. reads. In
C, VS. inverts the order of the two participles, and all read havtnsi for sva vdsiini; in
d, VS.MS. have dsum for vdsum, and VS. svar for dlvam, and all tisthata for rohata.
Ppp. gives, for c, d, z>. bh. dudhds tvam gharmam tarn u tisthata 'nu. All the AV.
pada-ms%. (except a single one of SPP's) read vdhamdnd : bhdramdnd, without final
visarga, and all the sarhhitd-mss. (except our P. p.m.) have -nd sva; both printed texts
make the necessary emendation in sarithitd to -ndh sva (which the comm. also reads),
and SPP. adds the visarga to both p'ples in his /ai/a-text. The pada reading in a is
sddand : akarma (our Bp. -ndh s. m.), and the irregular hiatus must be regarded as
falling under Prat. iii.
34, although the passage is not quoted by the commentary to that
rule; SPP. takes no notice of the anomaly. The comm. explains gharmdm in d by
ddityam. The Anukr. passes without notice the redundancy of c, due to the apparently
intruded sva.
5. O sacrifice, go to the sacrifice ;
go to the lord of sacrifice; go to
[thine] own source {yoni) :
hail
LProse.J The same formula is found, without variant, as VS. viii. 22 a, and in
TS. i. 4. 443 * and MS. i. 3. 38. The sam/titd-mss. add a stroke of punctuation before
svdm which is wanting in the other texts, and which our edition also omits ; SPP.
retains it. The comm. explains Vishnu as intended hy yajnatn. *LAlso vi. 6. 22.J
6. This [is] thy sacrifice, O lord of sacrifice, accompanied with songutterance,
of excellent heroism :
hail
|_Prose. J
Again the A V. mss. add a punctuation-mark before suviryah,* omitted in
our text, but given by SPP. ; the other texts (VS. viii. 22 b ; TS.MS. as above) do not
have it.
TS. differs only by reading suvirah; MS. does the same and omits svaha (adding
instead tSna sdm bhava bhrajam gacha) ; VS. ends with sdrvavtras tdj jusasva
svaha. Ppp. has a yet more different version : esa te yajtio yajamdnas svdhd suktanamovdkas
suvlrds svdhd. *LTo avoid taking the word as an adjective, BR., s.v., would
read with TS. suvirah.\