bodhati. No one will doubt that the operation of this 'Hauchdissimilationsgesetz' could be annihilated by opposite forces, but it must be admitted that the forms with 'Hauchdissimilation' could also remain intact. The verb vi-dha means 'to distribute, to arrange, to ordain;' thus the original meaning of vidatha must be, like the meaning of vidha'na, 'distribution, disposition, ordinance.' In V, 3, 6 we read vidatheshu ahnam: this phrase receives its explanation by VII, 66, 11. vi ye dadhuh saradam ma'sam a't ahah; ahoratra'ni vidadhat, X, 190, 2; masa'm vidha'nam, X, 1.38, 6; ritu'n ... vi dadhau, I, 95, 3. We may call attention also to VI, 51, 2. veda yah tri'ni vidathani esham deva'nam ganma, 'he who knows their threefold division, the birth of the gods;' VI, 8, 1. pra nu vokam vidatha gatavedasah, 'I will proclaim the ordinances of Gatavedas.' Within the sphere of the Vedic poets' thoughts, the most prominent example of something most artificially 'vihita' was the sacrifice (comp. vi ye dadhuh ... yagnam, VII, 66, 11; samsati uktham yagate vi u dhah, IV, 6, 11; [the moon] bhagam devebhyah vi dadhati a-yan, X, 85, 19; and the following very significant passage: yagnasya tva vidatha prikkham atra kati hotarah ritusah yaganti, Vag. Samh. XXIII, 57). Thus yagna and vidatha, 'sacrifice' and 'ordinance,' became nearly synonymous (comp. III, 3, 3, &c.). It would be superfluous to quote the whole number of passages which show this, but I believe that an attentive reader will discern at least in some of them the traces of the original meaning of vidatha; see, for instance, II, 1, 4; III, 28, 4.--Finally vidatha seems to mean 'the act of disposing of any business' or the like; this meaning appears, I believe, in passages like the well-known phrase, brihat vadema vidathe suvi'rah (comp. suvi'rasah vidatham a' vadema): 'may we with valiant men mightily raise our voice at the determining (of ordinances, &c.).' Thus the words vidatha and sabha' approach each other in their meaning; a person influential in council is called both vidathya and sabheya (see Boehtlingk-Roth, s. v. vidathya).

Note [1:31:6:3]3. The exact meaning of paritakmya is not quite

free from doubt. Comp. Bartholomae, Bezzenberger's Beitrage, XV, 203, note 1.

Note [1:31:6:4]4. Prof. Max Muller translates this verse: 'Thou savest the man who has gone the wrong way in the thick of the battle, thou who art quick at the sacrifice; thou who in the strife of heroes, when the prize (or the booty) is surrounded (beset on all sides), killest,' &c.

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