Thy golden ships, O Pûshan, which move within the watery sky.

VII, 70, 2. yáh vâm samudrâ´n sarítah píparti.

He who carries you across the watery rivers.

I, 161, 14. at-bhíh yâti várunah samudraíh.

Varuna moves in the flowing waters.

In both these passages samudrá, as an adjective, does not conform to the gender of the noun. See Bollensen, Orient und Occident, vol. ii, p. 467.

II, 16, 3. ná samudraíh párvataih indra te ráthah (ná pari-bhvẽ).

Thy chariot, O Indra, is not to be overcome by the watery clouds.

Verse 8.

Wilson: Who spread (through the firmament), along with the rays (of the sun), and, with their strength, agitate the ocean: come, Agni, with the Maruts.

Benfey: Die mit Blitzen schleuderen machtig über das Meer hinaus—Mit diesen Marut’s, Agni! komm!

Ludwig: Die mit stralen ihre richtung nemen mit gewalt durchs mer, mit den Marut, Agni, kom.

Verse 9.

Wilson: I pour out the sweet Soma juice for thy drinking, (as) of old: come, Agni, with the Maruts.

Benfey: Ich giesse zu dem ersten Trank für dich des Soma Honig aus—Mit diesen Marut’s, Agni! komm!

Ludwig: Ich giesze dir zum ersten trunk madhu mit dem soma zu; mit den Marut, Agni, kom.

Note 1. Pûrvapîti, the early draught, implies at the same time the priority of the god to whom it is given.

Footnotes

58:a Mentioned in Lâty. Srauta Sûtras, X, 15, 1; Pañkavimsa Brâhm. XXV, 10, 1; see Hist. A. S. L., p. 12.

59:a See Wilson's Vishnu-purâna, ed. Hall, pp. 154, 155, 159, 160.

59:b See Wilson's Vishnu-purâna, ed. Hall, p. 161.

59:c L. c., pp. 123, 127. Instead of Pâriyâtra, other MSS. read Pâripâtra; see Baler, Vasishtha I, 8.

59:d Prâg dasârnât pratyak kâmpilyâd udak pâriyâtrâd, dakshinena himavatah. Gangâyamunayor antaram eke madhyadesam ity âkakshate. Medhâtithi says that Madhyadesa, the middle country, was not called so because it was in the middle of the earth, but because it was neither too high nor too low. Albiruny, too, remarks that Madhyadesa was between the sea and the northern mountains, between the hot and the cold countries, equally distant from the eastern and western frontiers. See Reinaud, Mémoire sur l’Inde, p. 46.

61:a See 'India, what can it teach us?' pp. 170, 171.

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