Note [3:5:6:2]2. There seems to be no doubt that sasa (comp. sasya) means 'herb' or possibly 'grain' in X, 79, 3; the text there has sasam na pakvam; comp. I, 66, 2. yavah na pakvah. The same meaning is quite admissible in I, 51, 3; V, 21, 4; VIII, 72, 3; though these passages are too uncertain for deciding anything. I cannot find any reason for believing that we have here and in IV, 5, 7; 7, 7 (see below), another word derived from the root sas, and meaning 'the sleeper.' At all events I neither pretend to know what mysteries are hidden under the 'skin of the herbs,' nor what stories may have happened to the 'peau du dormeur' (Bergaigne, II, 78 seq.).

Note [3:5:6:3]3. See verse 5, note 1.

Verse 7.

Note [3:5:7:1]1. Yonim, literally 'womb.'

Note [3:5:7:2]2. Probably Heaven and Earth.

Verse 8.

Note [3:5:8:1]1. Prof. Max Muller refers this to the grass of the barhis, or the tender blades in which the spark is caught and kept alive by ghee.

Verse 9.

Note [3:5:9:1]1. Comp. above, I, 36, 1, note 2.

Verse 10.

Note [3:5:10:1]1. I have adopted, though I do not believe it certain, Grassmann's opinion on the meaning of pari in this connection. Comp. H. O., Religion des Veda, 123, note 4.