Verse 7.

Note [4:1:7:1]1. Literally 'thrice.' But I think that we should correct tri' ('three'). The same blunder seems to occur in III, 56, 5. tri' sadhastha sindhavah trih (read tri') kavina'm, 'Three are your abodes. O rivers; three (are those) of the sages.' Comp. also III, 56, 8; I, 116, 4.

Note [4:1:7:2]2. This seems to mean, in the infinite sky.

Verse 9.

Note [4:1:9:1]1. Manushah seems to be acc. plur.; comp. VII, 86, 7. aketayat akitah, 'he has enlightened the unenlightened ones.' Bergaigne takes manushah as a genitive depending on yagnabandhuh, 'fils du sacrifice de Manus.'

Note [4:1:9:2]2. Bergaigne compares IX, 87, 1, where it is said that they lead Soma to the sacrificial grass like a horse by ropes (akkha barhih rasana'bhih nayanti). Sayana says, stutirupaya raggva, 'by a rope which has the shape of praises.'

Verse 10.

Note [4:1:10:1]1. Comp. below, verse 18.

Note [4:1:10:2]2. I. e. anointed, adorned. 'Poured down.' M. M.

Verse 11.

Note [4:1:11:1]1. Mahah budhne seems to mean, mahah ragasah budhne; comp. ragasah budhnam, I, 52, 6; budhne ragasah, II, 2, 3; mahah ragasah, I, 6, 10; ragasah mahah, I, 168, 6; mahi' ragasi, IX, 68, 3.

Note [4:1:11:2]2. With the second Pada, compare IV, 17, 14. tvakah budhne ragasah asya yonau.

Note [4:1:11:3]3. The bull seems to be Agni himself. Comp. verse 12.

Verse 12.

Note [4:1:12:1]1. The word sardha (or sardhah? see note 3), which in most passages is applied to the host of the Maruts (see vol. xxxii, p. 67 seq.), seems here to refer to the company of the Angiras or seven Rishis, alluded to in the fourth

[paragraph continues] Pada. The seven Rishis, 'our fathers' (verse 13), have, with the aid of Agni, rent the mountain and delivered the cows or dawns (verses 13 seqq.; IV, 2, 15 seq.). Comp. H. O., Religion des Veda, p. 145 seq.

Note [4:1:12:2]2. The bull again seems to be Agni. Comp. verse 11, note 3.

Note [4:1:12:3]3. Do these epithets (comp. verse 8, Pada 3) refer to the sardha (host)? Or are they applied to Agni, so that we would have to translate: 'Lovely was the young one (Agni), of marvellous appearance, and brilliant'? In this way Bergaigne interprets the passage. If this translation is right, sardhah may be considered as neuter, and the first Pada could be translated: The first host came forth wonderfully.

Note [4:1:12:4]4. Evidently the seven Rishis (see note 1). Bergaigne: Les sept prieres? ou les sept rivieres?

Verse 13.

Note [4:1:13:1]1. The seven Rishis sat down for chanting and sacrificing, by which they have opened the mountain-prison of the cows.

Note [4:1:13:2]2. The mention of Rita in this connection is both Vedic and Avestic. Comp. Darmesteter, Ormazd et Ahriman, p. 146; H. O., Religion des Veda, p. 144, note 2.