Rv. I, 91, 16; IX, 31, 4. 'O goddess of the moon, increase! may the vigour from everywhere (from every limb of the fire or the sun) go to thee! Help us in the attainment of food.' Rv. I, 91, 18. 'O goddess of the moon, may the streams of thy milk go well to our sons, those streams of milk which are invigorating, and help to conquer the enemy. O Soma-goddess, increasing for immortal happiness (for the birth of a son), do thou place the highest glory (the streams of thy milk) in the sky.' 'That ray (sushumna) which (as a woman) the Adityas gladden, that Soma which as imperishable the imperishable Adityas drink, may the guardian of the world (Pragapati), Brihaspati, and king Varuna gladden us by it.'

The translations are made by the commentator regardless of grammar and sense: yet they command a certain authority, and must be taken into account as throwing light on the latest development of Indian mysticism.

^288:1 Cf. Asvalayana Grihya-sutras I, 13, 7.

^288:2 Widely scattered, everywhere desired. Comm. Professor Cowell proposes unscattered, hoarded, or unconcealed.

^288:3 The original has asme, to us, not asmai, to him.

^288:4 Cf. Taitt. Up. III, 10, 4; Ait. Brahm. V, 28; Colebrooke, Miscellaneous Essays (1873), II, p. 39.

^290:1 For other versions of this story see Kh. Up. V, 1, note 2; Ait. Ar. II, 1, 4, 9; Brih. Ar. VI, 1, 1-14; and Kaush. Up. III, 3.

^290:2 Cf. Kh. Up. VII, 15, note.

^291:1 Cf. Brihad-aranyaka I, 5,17.

^292:1 Another sakha adds here dhiyah, the thoughts (active), vignatavyam, their object, and kamah, desires.

^292:2 I have taken samapayati in the sense of performing the last duties towards a dead person, though I confess I know of no parallel passage in which samapayati occurs in that sense. Professor Cowell translates: 'If he dies, then let them cause the son duly to receive the tradition, as the tradition is to be given.' The text itself varies, for the reading presupposed by the commentator is enam (putram) samapayati, instead of enam samapayeyuh.