Note [1:141:3:3]3. The literal meaning of madhvah a-dhave is indicated by passages such as I, 109, 4. a' dhavatam madhuna; IX, 11, 5. madhav a' dhavata madhu. Comp. also adhavaniya. On the washing of the Soma which is technically designated by the verb a-dhav, see H. O., Gottinger Gelehrte Anzeigen, 1890, p. 426 seq.; Hillebrandt, Vedische Mythologie, I, 216.--The purification of the sweet drink, at which Agni is produced, was probably achieved by the tempest.

Verse 4.

Note [1:141:4:1]1. The highest father is Heaven.

Note [1:141:4:2]2. The meaning of prikshudhah is unknown.

Note [1:141:4:3]3. Yat is repeated twice, as yasya in X, 121, 2. yasya visve upa-a'sate pra-sisham yasya deva'h.

Note [1:141:4:4]4. On ghrina', comp. Lanman, Noun-Inflection, 335.

Verse 5.

Note [1:141:5:1]1. The mothers are the Waters.

Note [1:141:5:2]2. The reading, very probably, ought to be vivavridhe.

Note [1:141:5:3]3. Boehtlingk-Roth believe that the reading ought to be sanayuvah or sana-gurah. Sana-gurah (cf. sana-gura pitara, IV, 36, 3) seems to me quite possible, although there is no positive necessity for abandoning the traditional reading.--The 'former' mothers may be the heavenly Waters; the mothers in whom Agni runs down are the rivers. Prof. Max Muller adds that the former mothers may possibly be 'the burnt pieces of wood. Agni runs up in them, then leaves them to burn new pieces.'

Verse 6.

Note [1:141:6:1]1. On the whole verse, compare Pischel, Vedische Studien, I, 217.

Note [1:141:6:2]2. Comp. above, I, 45, 7, note 1.

Note [1:141:6:3]3. The second Pada is translated by Pischel: 'Wie in einen Konig drangen sie in ihn, wenn sie (Trank)opfer darbringen.' But verse 11 shows that bhagam depends on paprikana'sah.

Note [1:141:6:4]4. Comp. III, 16, 4. a' deveshu ... a' samse uta nrina'm.

Verse 7.

Note [1:141:7:1]1. The translation of hvarah is quite uncertain. The same must be said of the rest of this Pada.

Note [1:141:7:2]2. The sentence is incomplete.

Verse 8.

Note [1:141:8:1]1. On sikvan (or sikvas), comp. M. M.'s note, vol. xxxii, p. 318; Hubschmann, Vocalsystem, p. 186. The translation is only tentative.--Two syllables are wanting;

we may propose a reading like sikvabhih parishkritah (comp. H. O., Prolegomena, 76, note 3).

Note [1:141:8:2]2. This passage is most obscure. The first words of the Pada are the same as above, 140, 5. The 'black ones' probably are the dark clouds of smoke that surround Agni. But it is very strange that these clouds should be designated as surayah, 'liberal ones.' And the vocative (?) dakshi (Padapatha dhakshi), instead of which we should at least expect daksho or dakshin, is no less strange. The text seems thoroughly corrupt.

Note [1:141:8:3]3. See Lanman, p. 557.

Verse 10.