Note [3:6:2:1]1. On prayagyu, see M. M., vol. xxxii, p. 335, and Pischel, Ved. Studien, I, 98.

Note [3:6:2:2]2. The flames of Agni.

Note [3:6:2:3]3. Comp. below, 7, 10. The meaning seems to be: by thy (Agni's) greatness which is equal to that of Heaven and Earth.

Verse 3.

Note [3:6:3:1]1. I refer yagniyasah, though it is a plural, to Heaven and Earth. Comp. Delbruck, Altindische Syntax, 103.

Verse 4.

Note [3:6:4:1]1. The Padapatha has dhruvah. I think it should be dhruve, comp. II, 41, 5. dhruve sadasi uttame ... asate; IX, 40, 2. dhruve sadasi sidati.

Note [3:6:4:2]2. I. e. Heaven and Earth.

Note [3:6:4:3]3. A'skra seems derived from a-sak (Joh. Schmidt, Kuhn's Zeitschrift, XXV, 71).

Note [3:6:4:4]4. Or 'the two milch-cows which instantly give milk,' if sabar- is to be connected with the Greek afar; comp. Bartholomae, Bezzenberger's Beitrage, XV, 17.

Note [3:6:4:5]5. Vishnu is not the only god who is called urugaya, and there is no reason therefore why the epithet should not be referred here to Agni.

Verse 6.

Note [3:6:6:1]1. Comp. Lanman, Noun-Inflection, pp. 402, 413.--See below, IV, 2, 3.

Verse 7.

Note [3:6:7:1]1. See Geldner, Vedische Studien, I, 114 seq.

Note [3:6:7:2]2. Should the accent be apah? Comp. III, 1, 3, note 3.

Note [3:6:7:3]3. It is very probable that usadhak (comp. III, 34, 3; VII, 7, 2) is an epithet of Agni. We should expect the genitive; usadhak, which violates the construction, seems

to stand metri causa. Or is usadhak an accusative singular neuter, so that the literal translation would be: 'When the gods praised the work, burning in the forests, of the Hotri'?

Verse 8.

Note [3:6:8:1]1. On u'ma, comp. Pischel, Vedische Studien, I, 223.

Verse 10.

Note [3:6:10:1]1. Comp. above, II, 2, 7.

Note [3:6:10:2]2. See Windisch in the Festgruss an Boehtlingk, p. 114.

Note [3:6:10:3]3. There is one syllable above the number; the metre and meaning would be all right if we were to read adhvare (for adhvareva): '(the two goddesses) stand at the sacrifice,' &c. Prof. Max Muller explains: 'Adhvara'-iva, like two sacrifices, like two sacrificial altars, barhis.'