Let this, O Mitra-Varuna, let this, O Agni, be health and wealth to us; may this be auspicious!

V, 53, 14. vrishtvî´ sám yóh â´pah usrí bheshagám syâ´ma marutah sahá.

Let us be together with you, O Maruts, after health, wealth, water, and medicine have been showered down in the morning.

VIII, 39, 4. sám ka yóh ka máyah dadhe.

He gave health, wealth, and happiness.

VIII, 71, 15. agnim sám yóh ka dâ´tave.

We ask Agni to give us health and wealth.

X, 9, 4. sám yóh abhí sravantu nah.

May the waters come to us, as health and wealth, or may they run towards us auspiciously.

Note 3. If we retain the reading of the MSS. sûshmah iyarti, we must take it as an independent phrase, and translate it by 'my strength rises.' For sûshma, though in this and other places it is frequently explained as an adjective, meaning powerful, is, as far as I can see, always a substantive, and means breath, strength. There may be a few passages in which, as there occur several words for strength, it might

be possible to translate súshma by strong. But even there it is better to keep to the general meaning of súshma, and translate it as a substantive.

Iyarti means to rise and to raise. It is particularly applied to prayers raised by the poet in honour of the gods, and the similes used in connection with this, show clearly what the action implied by iyarti really is. For instance,

I, 116, 1. stómân iyarmi abhríyâ-iva vâ´tah.

I stir up hymns as the wind stirs the clouds.

X, 116, 9. su-vakasyâ´m iyarmi síndhau-iva prá îrayam nâ´vam arkaíh.

I stir up sweet praise, as if I rowed a ship on the river with hymns.

In the sense of rising it occurs,

X, 140, 2. pâvaká-varkâh sukrá-varkâh ánûna-varkâh út iyarshi bhânúnâ.

Thou risest up with splendour, Agni, thou of bright, resplendent, undiminished majesty.

We might therefore safely translate in our verse 'my strength rises,' although it is true that such a phrase does not occur again, and that in other passages where iyarti and súshma occur together, the former governs the latter in the accusative. Cf. IV, 17, 12; X, 75, 3.

Mahîdhara translates, my held-up thunderbolt moves on destroying everything,' but he admits another rendering in which adri would mean the stone used for pressing the Soma.

Verse 5.