Note [1:68:8:1]1. Some light is thrown on this obscure verse by the hymn, I, 72, a hymn belonging, as our hymn does, to the Parasara collection. It is shown by the second verse of that hymn (see below), that the searching ones, 'amurah,' are the gods who seek Agni. It seems probable, consequently, that the 'seed' is Agni (comp. I, 164, 35, where Soma is said to be vrishnah asvasya retah, 'the seed of the manly horse'). Of the same searching gods in I, 72, 5 the expression samganana'h is used; comp. sam ganata in our passage.

Verse 10.

Note [1:68:10:1]1. Ra'yah must be a genitive; comp. I, 72, 8. rayah durah vi ritagna'h aganan. Probably the accent should be rayah; comp., however, Lanman, 431.