Note [3:1:9:3]3. Here I believe we have an anacoluthon. The poet seems to have intended to say, 'Him who walked ... the daughters of Heaven saw.'--Prof. Max Muller translates this hemistich: 'He found him (the father) moving along with dear friends, with the young maidens of Heaven--he was not hidden.'

Note [3:1:9:4]4. Agni was hidden to the gods but not to the waters.

Verse 10.

Note [3:1:10:1]1. The verse X, 3, 2, though very obscure, seems to contain a similar idea. Should the meaning be that

[paragraph continues] Agni bears in his womb the Dawn, the daughter of Heaven?

Note [3:1:10:2]2. The waters.

Note [3:1:10:3]3. This phrase, which I have translated as literally as possible, is very obscure. The two wives seem to be wives of Agni. Are they Night and Dawn (the two sabardughe, III, 55, 12?), whose designation as 'belonging to men' seems not to be impossible? Or the two kindling-sticks (comp. V, 47, 5)? Or the two Darvis (V, 6, 9)?

Verse 11.

Note [3:1:11:1]1. Comp. V, 42, 17. urau devah anibadhe syama.

Note [3:1:11:2]2. This is feminine.

Note [3:1:11:3]3. The phrase yasasah sam hi purvi'h occurs also X, 46, 10. It may have been, as Geldner believes, a proverbial locution. But the verb which it is most natural to supply, seems to be gam (i, ya), so that the meaning may have been: 'Many superior (wives) are wont to assemble,' i. e. where one such wife is, there will be many. This is applied here to the waters, in X, 46, 10 to such beings as ishah, utayah or the like. That yasas may be meant for the waters is shown by VII, 36, 6, where the yasasah vavasana'h, mentioned by the side of Sarasvati, evidently are the waters.--It should be observed that several expressions of this hymn have been made use of by the author of X, 46.

Note [3:1:11:4]4. Or rather 'in the lap' (upasi). Comp. above, verse 3, note 3.

Verse 12.

Note [3:1:12:1]1. With regard to akrah I adopt the translation proposed by Geldner (Ved. Studien, I, 168).--On the accent of mahi'nam, see Lanman, p. 398.

Note [3:1:12:2]2. This seems to be the human worshipper. I cannot follow Prof. von Roth, Zeitschrift der D. Morg. Gesellschaft, XLVIII, 118, who explains sunave as a corrupt third person of the verb su.

Note [3:1:12:3]3. See above, I, 44, 3, note 1.

Note [3:1:12:4]4. The dawns.

Note [3:1:12:5]5. Comp. above, I, 36, 1, note 2.

Verse 13.

Note [3:1:13:1]1. Vana: the wood considered as a wife.

Verse 14.

Note [3:1:14:1]1. See verse 12, note 3.

Verse 18.

Note [3:1:18:1]1. The text has vidathani.

Verse 19.

Note [3:1:19:1]1. Comp. Kuhn, Kuhn's Zeitschrift, I, p. 445.

Verse 23.