Note 1. Ghrínîva, divided into ghríni-iva, is a difficult form. Various attempts have been made to explain it. Grassmann translates: 'Wie Schatten von der Gluth mög unversehrt ich des Rudra Huld erreichen,' preferring to write ghriner va. Ludwig, in his notes: 'Bei hitze,' taking ghrini as a locative. Muir: 'Shade in the heat.' Geldner: 'Vor Sonnengluth den Schatten,' taking ghrinî as an instrumental. Lanman (p. 379) takes the same view, though he admits that this would be the only example of an instrumental in the masculine, contracted to î. He translates: 'As by the heat unharmed, to shelter bring me.' He adds: 'It may be ablative with elision and crasis,' and this is likewise Roth's view. Weber thinks that we may retain ghrinîva in the Samhitâ text, but should divide it into ghrinî-iva, 'like a man suffering from heat' (Ind. Stud. XIII, p. 58). I think we must take into account a parallel passage, VI, 16, 38. ûpa khâyâ´m iva ghríneh áganma sárma te vayám, see M. M., Preface to translation of Rig-veda, p. cxliii. Probably the apparent irregularity of the metre led to the change of ghríner iva to ghrínîva, but ghríner iva can be scanned   ̆  ̄  ̆; see M. M., l. c., p. cxlviii.

Verse 7.

Note 1. Gálâsha by itself occurs but once more as an epithet of Rudra, VII, 35, 6, and twice in composition, gálâshabheshaga; see I, 43, 4. The second pâda begins with hástah.

Verse 8.

Note 1. Namasyá is difficult, but we can hardly take it for namasyâmasi, masi being supplied from grinîmasi. Nor do we gain by taking namasyâ´ for an instrumental. Perhaps it is best to take it as a 1st pers. of the imperative.

Note 2. The meaning of kalmalîkin is unknown.

Note 3. I think it is best to translate nâ´ma by name, though, no doubt, it implies more than the mere name. Geldner's 'majestätisch Wesen' is right, but it is only one side of nâma. See VIII, 20, 13, note 1.

Verse 9.

Note 1. On vai, see Delbrück, Syntax, p. 483. On asurya, see von Bradke, Dyaus Asura, pp. 29, 34.

Verse 10.

Note 1. I have changed yagatám into yagata.