15. The face of this kindled, manly Vasu has shone gloriously in the house. Clothed in brilliancy, with his shape beautiful to behold, the bountiful has shone like a house with its wealth.

NOTES.

The hymn is addressed to Vaisvanara. The same Rishi and metre.--No verse occurs in the other Samhitas.

Verse 1.

Note [4:5:1:1]1. Cf. especially I, 45, 8 (above, <page 42>). brihat bha'h bibhratah havih.

Note [4:5:1:2]2. Cf. vol. xxxii, p. 93 (I, 38, 11, note 2).

Verse 2.

Note [4:5:2:1]1. See above, I, 36, 1, note 2.

Verse 3.

Note [4:5:3:1]1. Dvibarhah is neuter. See Lanman, p. 560; Joh. Schmidt, Pluralbildungen der Indogermanischen Neutra, p. 132.

Note [4:5:3:2]2. Agni has discovered the Saman which he proclaims to the mortal, like the track of a lost cow.

Verse 5.

Note [4:5:5:1]1. See H. O., Religion des Veda, p. 539.

Note [4:5:5:2]2. Abhratarah cannot be accusative plural fem., as Zimmer (Altindisches Leben, p. 419) seems to take it. The correct interpretation has been given by Pischel, Vedische Studien, I, p. 299.

Note [4:5:5:3]3. I. e. hell.

Verse 6.

Note [4:5:6:1]1. In the younger Vedic ritual certain Stotras are technically designated as prishtha or 'backs' of the liturgies

[paragraph continues] (see, for instance, Weber, Indische Studien, X, 385). Does the word stand here in the same sense? Or should we correct preshtham?

Note [4:5:6:2]2. The seven tones of the scale?

Verse 7.

Note [4:5:7:1]1. This passage is obscure. The text runs thus: sasasya karman adhi ka'ru prisneh agre rupah arupitam (a'rupitam Samhitapatha) gabaru. As to the first words, see III, 5, 6. To ka'ru possibly a noun like na'ma should be supplied (cf. below, verse 10). The last Pada (cf. above, III, 5, 5, note 1) is simply untranslateable.

Verse 8.

Note [4:5:8:1]1. Of the milk alluded to in the third Pada?--On ninik, cf. Lanman, p. 436; Job. Schmidt, Pluralbildungen der Indogerm. Neutra, p, 397.

Note [4:5:8:2]2. The water of the cows is the milk, cf. X, 12, 3. Roth (Zeitschr. der D. Morgenl. Gesellschaft, XLVIII, 682): als sie den Schatz der Kuhe entdeckt hatten (var iva = varam iva).

Note [4:5:8:3]3. Rupah agram.

Note [4:5:8:4]4. Comp above, III, 5, 5 with note 1; III, 5, 6, note 2.

Verse 9.

Note [4:5:9:1]1. The sun, the face of the great gods (cf. I, 115, 1), accompanied by the dawn?

Verse 10.

Note [4:5:10:1]1. Is the meaning of all this that Agni, shining on the altar between heaven and earth, desires, and consumes with his flames, the oblation of butter which has its home in the udder of the cow?

Verse 11.

Note [4:5:11:1]1. On asasa, see Lanman, p. 492 seq.; Bartholomae Indogermanische Forschungen, I, 182 seq.; Bechtel, Hauptprobleme