Note [1:72:10:3]3. It is not necessary to change the text; I believe, however, that the conjecture adhah ksharanti (they stream downwards) would not be quite improbable. Comp. my Prolegomena, p. 369, note 1.--The subject seems to be the streams of sacrificial libations.

Note [1:72:10:4]4. Both expressions, 'the red ones' and 'those which are directed downwards,' are feminine. The red ones may be the dawns. But these cannot be called 'directed downwards.' I take, therefore, the one noun as a nominative, the other as an accusative. Cannot 'those which are directed downwards' be the libations of Ghrita and the like, which the dawns see?--Prof. Max Muller translates: 'People recognised the red netherward mares (of thee), O Agni.' He supplies gvalah or takes arushih as mares, cf. V, 56, 6.