fursorger.' But visva does not mean 'allgemein,' and Ludwig omits na, 'like.' One should expect a phrase like visa'm na vispatih, which of course is metrically impossible. Is it too bold to correct visvah into vispa'h, a word hitherto not found in the texts, but formed exactly like stipa', pasupa', tanupa' and others?--Prof. Max Muller takes asmai as dependent on svadhi'h and visvah as belonging at the same time to amritah and to visa'm. He translates: 'To him also who dwells in the rock and in the house, every immortal like every one among men is well disposed.'

Verse 5.

Note [1:70:5:1]1. Comp. VII, 10, 5. sa hi kshapavan abhavat rayina'm.

Verse 6.

Note [1:70:6:1]1. Most probably we have here not the accusative martan but the genitive martam, which was confounded by the arrangers of the traditional text with the accusative and treated according to the Sandhi rules which govern the ending -an. See . Lanman, Noun-Inflection, 353 Bartholomae, Studien zur indogermanischen Sprachgeschichte, I, 48.

Verse 7.

Note [1:70:7:1]1. Lanman (p. 422) takes kshapah virupah as accusatives, and translates, 'Whom through many nights and mornings all beings worship.' I believe that they are nominatives, and that we should accentuate kshapah. As virupa is a regular epithet of naktosha'sa, I think that kshapah is to be understood as an elliptic plural similar to the elliptic duals usha'sa or ahani (comp. Delbruck, Altindische Syntax, 102), and that it means, 'the nights (and mornings).'--Comp. VI, 38, 4. vardhan ma'sah saradah dya'vah indram, 'May months, years, days increase Indra's greatness.'

Note [1:70:7:2]2. Of course ka ratham is a mistake for karatham, as first pointed out by Benfey.

Verse 8.

Note [1:70:8:1]1. On the locative svar, see Lanman, 488; Joh. Schmidt in Kuhn's Zeitschrift, XXVII, 306; Bartholomae in Bezzenberger's Beitrage, XV, 42. Comp. X, 61, 14. svah na ye trishadhasthe nisheduh.

Note [1:70:8:2]2. Comp. X, 53, 2. aradhi hota nishada yagiyan.

Verse 9.

Note [1:70:9:1]1. Is it not more probable that tribute was brought to Agni (comp. V, 1, 10) than to the human worshippers? Possibly we should change svah nah (svar nah of the Samhitapatha) into svarnah, a vocative of the stem svarnri = svarnara. The translation would be, 'All men have brought tribute to thee, O sun-hero!'

Verse 10.

Note [1:70:10:1]1. Comp. V, 11, 4. agnim narah vi bharante grihegrihe.

Note [1:70:10:2]2. Regarding the metre, comp. above, 69, 8, note 1.

Verse 11.

Note [1:70:11:1]1. This verse may possibly be a later addition. See Bergaigne, Recherches sur l'Histoire de la Samhita, I, 61.

Note [1:70:11:2]2. On gridhnu, comp. Pischel, Ved. Studien, I, 231.