Note [4:7:7:1]1. On sasasya, cf. above, III, 5, 6, note 2. Viyuta seems to be a locative standing parallel with the locative u'dhan. We have here sasasya viyuta ... ritasya dha'man, quite as in V, 21, 4 the two accusatives ritasya yonim and sasasya yonim stand parallel. The meaning of viyuta, however, seems to me quite uncertain. Is it an action-noun derived from vi-yu, 'to separate,' 'to keep off,' or from (vi-) va, 'to weave'? Professor Max Muller proposes: 'at the removal of the grass or tinder in which the spark is kept. '

Note [4:7:7:2]2. sasmin u'dhan; cf. below, 10, 8.

Note [4:7:7:3]3. Cf. above, I, 147, 1.

Verse 8.

Note [4:7:8:1]1. With this verse, compare below, hymn 8, verse 4.

Verse 9.

Note [4:7:9:1]1. The wood, the child of which is Agni.

Verse 11.

Note [4:7:11:1]1. I take anna here as an instrumental.--Compare with our passage VII, 3, 4. trishu yat anna samavrikta gambhaih; X, 79, 5. yah asmai annam trishu adadhati; X, 91, 7. trishu yat anna vevishat vitishthase; X, 113, 8. agnih ni gambhaih trishu annam avayat.

Note [4:7:11:2]2. melim; cf. above, III, 26, 9.