Note [3:1:1:5]5. I. e. cause the fire to flare up.

Verse 2.

Note [3:1:2:1]1. The verses 2, 3, and 4 have been translated by Bergaigne, Religion Vedique, I, 109.

Note [3:1:2:2]2. Many sacrificial rites are performed from west to cast; comp. with regard to the Barhis, I, 188, 4; X, 110, 4; with regard to the sacrificial ladle, III, 6, 1; V, 28, 1; to the Havirdhanas, Vagas. Samhita V, 17. Thus the whole sacrifice is spoken of as proceeding in an eastward direction; see X, 66, 12. pra'nkam nah yagnam pra nayata; X, 87, 9. yagnam pra'nkam ... pra naya.

Note [3:1:2:3]3. Comp. Mahabharata XIV, 280. tasmat svayam sadhi yagne vidha'nam. Vidatha indeed is here an equivalent of vidhana.

Verse 3.

Note [3:1:3:1]1. The meaning seems to be that Agni won vigour (mayah) by dwelling in the waters (see Pada 3); comp. the well-known words a'pah hi stha mayah-bhuvah (X, 9, I), 'for you, O waters, give vigour.'

Note [3:1:3:2]2. More exactly, of purified faculties.

Note [3:1:3:3]3. The accent apasi, instead of apasi, looks very suspicious. It is easy, but perhaps too easy, to correct apasi, as possibly in III, 6, 7. apah should be read for apah. (In I, 31, 8; 151, 4 Grassmann is wrong in assuming a neutral stem apas- 'die Arbeit.') To me Ludwig's conjecture upasi (in the lap of the sisters, i. e. of the waters) seems excellent. Upasi occurs in V, 43, 7; X, 27, 13 in the meaning of upasthe. Thus upasi svasrinam would be the same as apa'm upasthe; comp. I, 144, 2; VI, 8, 4; IX, 86, 25; X, 45, 3; 46, 1. 2, &c.--Comp. below, verse 11, note 4.

Verse 4.

Note [3:1:4:1]1. Of course the seven wives are the rivers or waters.

Note [3:1:4:2]2. I cannot adopt Prof. Weber's conjecture asvah (Altiranische Sternnamen, 10). His translation is: 'Die Gotter liefen zu dem wundersamen Agni bei seiner Geburt (neugierig) hinzu, wie die jungen Madchen zu einem neugebornen Kinde.'

Verse 5.

Note [3:1:5:1]1. For kratum punanah, cf. III, 31, 16; VIII, 12, 11; 13, I; 53, 6.

Note [3:1:5:2]2. I take pari as belonging to vasanah; sokih and a'yuh are objects. Comp. X, 16, 5. a'yuh vasanah; X, 53, 3. sah a'yuh a' aga't surabhih vasanah.

Verse 6.

Note [3:1:6:1]1. The number of the seven sounds (comp. Sten Konow, Das Samavidhana-bra'hmana, p. 33, note 3) seems to be connected with the seven Rishis, see IX, 103, 3. va'nih rishinam sapta (comp. IX, 62, 17). The seven sounds seem to be identified with the seven rivers also in III, 7, 1 (see below). Comp. Bergaigne, Religion Vedique, II, 132; H. O., Religion des Veda, 117, note 1.

Verse 7.

Note [3:1:7:1]1. Heaven and Earth.

Verse 9.

Note [3:1:9:1]1. Comp. Bergaigne, Religion Vedique, II, 99.

Note [3:1:9:2]2. See volume xxxii, 441 seq. (I, 2, 3, note 1).