Note [3:3:1:1]1. A meaning like 'prayer' seems to recommend itself for most of the passages in which the substantive vip occurs, for instance, V, 68, 1. pra vah mitra'ya gayata varunaya vip gira'; IX, 22, 3. ete puta'h vipaskitah somasah ... vipa' vi a'nasuh dhiyah; IX, 65, 12. aya' kittah vipa' anaya harih pavasva dha'raya; III, 10, 5 (see below), &c. As the verb vip means 'to be in trembling agitation,' the same word as a substantive may designate enthusiastic thoughts or prayers. Comp. vepate mati', IX, 71, 3; X, II, 6, and the nouns vipra, vipaskit, vipodha'. We need not enter here upon the question, whether some concrete trembling or shaking objects also were designated as vipah, and whether Bergaigne (Religion Vedique, I, p. vii) is right in taking the vip ayah-agra, with which Trita killed the boar (X, 99, 6), as a 'priere a pointe de fer' (comp. Macdonell, Journ. R. Asiatic Society, 1893, p. 431; 1895, p. 185).--In our verse vipah may be either nominative or accusative. I have translated it as an accusative; in the case of the nominative the translation would be: 'The prayers have worshipped Vaisvanara with treasures.'

Verse 3.

Note [3:3:3:1]1. The text has vidathasya.

Verse 4.

Note [3:3:4:1]1. Asurah vipah-kitam. On the meaning of asura, which implies the possession of secret, supernatural power, see H. O., Religion des Veda, 162 seq.--Comp. von Bradke, Dyaus Asura, pp. 64-65.

Note [3:3:4:2]2. 'Richtschnur und Weg der Opferer,' Pischel, Vedische Studien, I, 306.

Verse 5.

Note [3:3:5:1]1. Literally, 'whose rules are yellow.' The meaning is that Agni's whole sphere of activity bears the golden

yellow colour. Sayana gives the interesting remark 'haritvakam iti sakhantaram,' but no doubt harivratam is right.

Verse 7.

Note [3:3:7:1]1. Comp. Neisser, Bezzenberger's Beitrage, XIII, 297.

Verse 8.

Note [3:3:8:1]1. Comp. I, 36, 1, note 2.

Verse 9.

Note [3:3:9:1]1. Comp. II, 4, 1, note 1.

Verse 11.

Note [3:3:11:1]1. Prof. Max Muller proposes to translate, 'has sent forth his great song,' and observes, 'Might not brihat be like brihat sa'ma, a name of a hymn?'