Note [1:142:4:2]2. The text has akkha ... vakyate. To me there seems to be no doubt that this is the passive of vak, not of vank. Comp. the name of the priest akkhavaka, and the phrase akkhoktibhih matina'm, I, 61, 3; 184, 2. The same passive of vak is found III, 39, 1. matih hridah a' vakyamana (then follows akkha ... gigati); X, 47, 7 (stomah) ... manasa vakyamanah.--It may be observed that in our passage as well as in III, 39, 1 and X, 47, 7, the forms vakyate, vakyamana, vakyamanah are preceded by a vowel; and we may infer that the poet did not say ukyate, &c., in order to avoid the hiatus.

Verse 5.

Note [1:142:5:1]1. The poet begins as if he intended to say, 'Priests ... lay down the sacrificial grass.' But he continues, I lay down.' Dr. Neisser (Bezzenberger's Beitrage, XX, 60) tries to explain the difficulty in a way in which I cannot follow him.

Note [1:142:5:2]2. On the verb vrig technically connected with barhih, see Geldner, Vedische Studien, I, 152 seq., and compare vol. xxxii, I, 38, 1, note 2; I, 64, 1, note 2.

Verse 6.

Note [1:142:6:1]1. With the whole verse compare I, 13, 6.

Verse 7.

Note [1:142:7:1]1. Pischel's opinion (Vedische Studien, II, 113 seq.) that pesah means 'Gestalt,' 'Form,' 'Farbe,' 'rupa,' does not convince me.

Note [1:142:7:2]2. See Geldner, Kuhn's Zeitschrift, XXVIII, 195.

Note [1:142:7:3]3. Comp. VIII, 87, 4. a' barhih sidatam sumat. Geldner (Vedische Studien, II, 190) translates: 'das schone Opfergras.'

Verse 9.

Note [1:142:9:1]1. 'Should we read marteshu for marutsu?' M. M. This conjecture seems perhaps rather bold.

Note [1:142:9:2]2. Hotra Bharati, i. e. the personified Offering of the Bharatas, seems to be one goddess, more usually called simply Bharati. Comp. I, 22, 10; II, 1, 11; III, 62, 3; Bergaigne, Religion Vedique, I, 322; H. O., Religion des Veda, 243, note 2. Pischel's opinion (Vedische Studien, II, 85) is different.

Note [1:142:9:3]3. See above, I, 13, 9, note 1.

Verse 10.

Note [1:142:10:1]1. On the navel as the symbol of the connection between father and son, see Bergaigne, I, 35, 36, and comp. the well-known name Nabhanedishtha.

Note [1:142:10:2]2. For puru va'ram very probably puruva'ram should be read (Grassmann). See II, 40, 4. puruva'ram ... rayas posham vi syatam na'bhim asme.

Note [1:142:10:3]3. With the last Pada compare II, 40, 4, quoted in note 2, and II, 3, 9. praga'm Tvashta vi syatu na'bhim asme; see also Taittiriya Samhita IV, I, 8, 3. Tvashtri is generally considered as giving sons; see H. O., Religion des Veda, 234.

Verse 11.

Note [1:142:11:1]1. Comp. I, 13, 11, note 1.

Note [1:142:11:2]2. The second hemistich recurs I, 105, 14.

Note [1:142:11:3]3. See Neisser, Zur Vedischen Verballehre, 22.