MANDALA I, HYMN 99.

ASHTAKA I, ADHYAYA 8, VARGA 7.

1. Let us press Soma for Gatavedas . May he burn down the property of the niggard . May he, Agni, bring us across all troubles, across all difficulties, as across a stream with a boat.

NOTES.

The Rishi is Kasyapa Marika. Metre, Trishtubh.--Verse 1 = TA. X, 1.

Verse 1.

Note [1:99:1:1]1. This is one of the very rare passages in which Agni standing alone and not accompanied by Indra or the Maruts &c. is mentioned as drinking Soma. It seems as if this verse were not composed for the regular Soma sacrifice, but for a special occasion.

Note [1:99:1:2]2. Cf. Delbruck, Syntakt. Forschungen, I, 112.