Note [1:189:8:2]2. On the last words of the hymn--the regularly repeated conclusion of the Agastya hymns--see M. M., vol. xxxii, p. xx, and also Bartholomae, Bezzenberger's Beitrage, XV, 212. I do not think it very probable that isha is here the name of an autumn month, as found iii the Satapatha Brahmana and others of the more modern Vedic texts; to me it would seem rather strange that such a prayer for the fertility of that month should have formed, among the Agastyas, the standing conclusion of their sacrificial hymns. But the names of the two months isha and urga seem to point to the existence of two adjectives meaning 'giving food' and 'giving sap.'--Then follows vrigana, used as a masculine. Geldner (Vedische Studien, I, 151) indicates the following passages, in which he believes that this masculine vrigana occurs: V, 44, 1; VI, 35, 5; VII, 32, 27; X, 27, 4; and the concluding Pada of the Agastya hymns. Of these passages the two first seem to be open to doubt as to the correctness of the text. In V, 44, 1 the true reading may be pratikinam vrishanam dohase; comp. verse 3, vrisha sisuh, and I, 173, 6, where possibly vrishanam should be read instead of vriganam (Gottinger

[paragraph continues] Gelehrte Anzeigen, 1890, 417). In VI, 35, 5 I propose to read vrinagam (Gott. Gel. Anzeigen, loc. cit., 416). In VII, 32, 27 and X, 27, 4 vrigana (Padap. vriganah; the letter d follows) and vriganeshu seem to be masculine, though it is not absolutely impossible to see in these forms the nom. plur. and loc. plur. of the neuter vrigana. But I believe that any attempts to derive conclusions from these three passages on the meaning of the masculine vrigana are hopeless.