Indra thou goest in the sky between the heavenly lights and the earthly.

VIII, 94, 9. â´ yé vísvâ pâ´rthivâni papráthan rokanâ´ diváh.

The Maruts who stretched out all the earthly lights, and the lights of heaven.

VI, 61, 11. â-paprúshî pâ´rthivâni urú rágah antáriksham.

Sarasvatî filling the earthly places, the wide welkin, the sky. This is a doubtful passage.

Lastly, pâ´rthivâni by itself seems to signify earth, sky, and heaven, if those are the three regions which Vishnu measured with his three steps; or east, the zenith, and west, if these were intended as the three steps of that deity. For we read:

I, 155, 4. yáh pâ´rthivâni tri-bhíh ít vígâma-bhih urú krámishta.

He (Vishnu) who strode wide with his three strides across the regions of the earth.

These two concluding verses might also be taken as containing the actual invocation of the sacrificer, which is mentioned in verse 8. In that case the full stop at the end of verse 8 should be removed.

Footnotes

20:a Chips from a German Workshop, 2nd ed., vol. ii, p. 137 seq. Selected Essays, vol. i, p. 444.

21:a Chips from a German Workshop, vol. ii, p. 139.

22:a Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1867, p. 204.

25:a See V, 1, 4. svetáh vâgî´ gâyate ágre áhnâm. X, I, 6. arusháh gâtáh padé ílâyâh.

39:a Cf. I, 58, 7. saptá guhvãh.

40:a See Taitt. Brâhm. I, 1, 6, to. vahnir vâ anadvân, vahnir adhvaryuh.