Note 1. We might also translate, 'protect men from the stronger one,' as we read I, 120, 4. pâtám ka sáhyasah yuvám ka rábhyasah nah; and still more clearly in IV, 55, 1. sáhîyasah varuna mitra mártât. But I doubt whether nrîn by itself would be used in the sense of our men, while narah is a common name of the Maruts, whether as diváh nárah, I, 64, 4, or as nárah by themselves, I, 64, 10; 166, 13, &c.

Note 2. On the meaning of avayâ in ávayâtahelâh, see Introduction, p. xx.

Note 3. On dadhânah, see VIII, 97, 13, &c.

Footnotes

290:a See Sanskrit Grammar, § 372, note.

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