Note [5:2:3:2]2. On viprikvat, cf. Taitt. Samhita III, 1, 6, 2. yunagmi tisrah viprikah su'ryasya te; Vag. Samhita IX, 4. samprikau sthah sam ma bhadrena prinktam; viprikau sthah vi ma papmana prinktam. Vi-prik seems to mean, consequently, 'to free something from an admixture,' and amritam viprikvat seems to be ambrosia in which dwells the power of getting free from bad admixtures. Thus in the passage quoted from the Taitt. Samhita the Sun is referred to as thrice cleared from all impure elements. It is quite uncertain whether the expression used here refers or not to the myth of the churning of the ocean (Geldner, loc. cit.), and I do not think that we should translate amritam viprikvat, as Geldner does, 'das was sich als Nektar ausscheidet.'

Verse 4.

Note [5:2:4:1]1. I read with Bohtlingk-Roth sumadyutham.

Note [5:2:4:2]2. The young women seem to be hostile beings of

the same kind as the young woman mentioned in verse 2. They try to seize Agni, but he has been born already; his fiery, unassailable nature has been formed. I do not pretend to know what it means that then those female foes become grey with age. 'I think they are the Dawns who hold Agni in the dark; but when he escapes and is actually born, they, the Dawns, become grey.' M. M.

Verse 5.

Note [5:2:5:1]1. The relative pronoun yesham seems to refer both to the bull (maryakam) and to the cows (gobhih). The bull probably is Agni who has been separated from the cows, i. e. the oblations, prayers, &c. (?) 'Possibly the bull Agni, the rising sun, has been separated from the cows, the clouds or dawns.' M. M.

Verse 6.

Note [5:2:6:1]1. Vasa'm ra'ganam. I cannot follow the interpretation of Pischel, Vedische Studien, I, 210.

Note [5:2:6:2]2. Or ni daduh, 'they have bound him'? Cf. ava srigantu in the third Pada, and niditam in verse 7.

Verse 8.

Note [5:2:8:1]1. The whole verse is nearly identical with X, 32, 6.

Note [5:2:8:2]2. I consider aiyeh (cf. Bartholomae, Arische Forschungen, II, 72, 76; Studien zur Indogermanischen Sprachgeschichte, I, 21) as 2nd sing. pluperfect of the root i.

Note [5:2:8:3]3. Varuna?

Verse 11.

Note [5:2:11:1]1. With the second Pada compare I, 130, 6; V, 29, 15.

Verse 12.

Note [5:2:12:1]1. The bull of course is Agni.