Note [1:65:3:1]1. Regarding the construction, see Gaedicke, 192.--Professor Max Muller's opinion on this phrase differs from

mine. He writes: 'I should prefer parishti. But parishti seems to mean a running about, reconnoitring, searching. "There was searching on earth as in heaven," lit. earth, like heaven, was reconnoitring-ground.'

Verse 5.

Note [1:65:5:1]1. Comp. VIII, 50, 2. girih na bhugma'. I believe that Boehtlingk-Roth, Bollensen, and Grassmann are right in correcting our passage accordingly; ranva', prithvi', sambhu follow the gender of the corresponding substantives, and the same may be expected here. Comp. Lanman, 530. The meaning is that Agni yields nourishment to all beings as a mountain fertilises the country by the waters which come down from it; comp. VIII, 49, 2. gireh iva pra rasah asya pinvire datrani purubaogasah.

Verse 6.

Note [1:65:6:1]1. Regarding the construction, comp. Gaedicke, 252 seq.; Bergaigne, Melanges Renier, 95. Joh. Schmidt (Die Pluralbildungen der indogerm. Neutra, 305) and Ludwig (V, 524) are wrong in taking kshodah as a locative or as an instrumental respectively.

Verse 7.

Note [1:65:7:1]1. Comp. Pischel-Geldner, Vedische Studien, I, p. xvi.

Verse 10.

Note [1:65:10:1]1. Can sisva be the nominative of a stem sisvan which stands by the side of sisu as ribhvan of ribhu? Prof. Max Muller proposes: 'Large like a cow with young, like a pregnant cow.'