All this tends to raise the supposition that in our

passage also we should read manase varaya, which datives seem to depend on samtama. We should then translate, 'What supplication, what (pious) thought may be, O Agni, most agreeable to thy mind and to thy wish?'

Note [1:76:1:2]2. This seems to be a Pada of the defective type, with four syllables before the caesura and ending as if there were five syllables before the caesura; comp. my Prolegomena, 68 seq. It would be easy, however, to restore the normal metrical form, for instance, by reading tubhyam instead of te.

Verse 2.

Note [1:76:2:1]1. Purah-eta', literally, 'he who goes before somebody.'

Verse 4.

Note [1:76:4:1]1. It would be unnatural to give to the medium a' huve the passive sense and not to translate it, as it must be translated in so many passages, 'I call (thee) hither.' But, if so, it is very difficult to avoid the conclusion that vahnih asa' ('he who carries somebody with his mouth;' comp. I, 129, 5; VI, 11, 2; 16, 9; VII, 16, 9; X, 115, 3 see vol. xxxii, pp. 42 seq.) refers here not to Agni, the divine carrier, but to the human priest, who with his mouth, i. e. by his songs, carries Agni to his sacrifice. Vahni is used very frequently indeed of human worshippers, and generally the transferring of epithets of the divine priest Agni to human priests, and vice versa, is quite to the taste of Vedic poets.--Comp. on a' huve and vahnih asa', Neisser, Bezzenberger's Beitrage, XVIII, 320 seq.; XX, 69, and below, I, 127, 8, note 1; S. B. E., vol. xxxii, p. 42. See also Delbruck, Altindische Syntax, 473, who very rightly observes: es liegt kein Grund vor, dem huve den Character einer ersten Person zu versagen.

Note [1:76:4:2]2. On the accent of huve, on which Ludwig bases very bold conclusions, see Delbruck, Altindische Syntax, 41; Weber, Indische Studien, XIII, 73.

Note [1:76:4:3]3. Comp. X, 3, 3.--On the priestly functions of the

[paragraph continues] Potri, see Weber, Indische Studien, X, 141, 366, 376 seq.; H. O., Religion des Veda, 391.

Note [1:76:4:4]4. On these vocatives, see Delbruck, Altindische Syntax, 106.

Verse 5.

Note [1:76:5:1]1. Manus is here a proper name; comp. Bergaigne, I, 65 seq. On his priestly character, comp. H. O., Religion des Veda, 275.

Note [1:76:5:2]2. On guhva, comp. Pischel, Ved. Studien, II, 113. The ladle is meant for the flame of Agni.