Note 1. If we accept the text as it stands, we have to translate, 'The spy called out to you to grant welfare.' The spy is then either Agni (Bergaigne, II, p. 378) or the priest. See also VIII, 61, 15; X, 35, 8. But there are many objections to this. Pra-krand is not used in that sense, and we should expect pra krânt suvitâya. Pra-kar, when it is construed with a dative, means generally to prepare some one for something, to cause some one to do a thing. Thus, I, 186, 10. pró asvínau ávase krinudhvam. get the Asvins to protect. VI, 21, 9. prá ûtáye várunam mitrám índram marûtah krishva ávase nah adyá, make Varuna, Mitra, and Indra to protect, make the Maruts to protect us to-day. X, 64, 7. prá vah vâyúm—stómaih krinudhvam sakhyâ´ya pûshánam, make Vâyu by your praises to be your friend. I, 112, 8. prá andhám sronám kákshase étaye kritháh, whereby you make the blind and lame to see and to walk. The poet therefore seems to have said in our verse also, 'They (my men or priests) made you or wished you to give them welfare.' What spat can mean in such a sentence, is difficult to say. Till we know better, we must simply accept it as a particle of asseveration, like bat.

Note 2. Árkâ may also be the first person.

Verse 2.

Note 1. With regard to vyâthir yatî´, cf. I, 117, 15. samudrám avyathír gaganvâ´n, and VIII, 45, 19. vyáthir gaganvâ´msah; Bergaigne, Journ. As. 1884, p. 490.

Note 2. Mahé vidáthe must be taken as a locative sing. It occurs again X, 96, 1. We have similar forms in mahé ráne, IX, 66, 13. &c. The locative is governed by antáh,