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VEDIC HYMNS.
NOTES
The same poet and deity. Metre, 1-6 Gagatî; 7, 8 Trishtubh. None of its verses occurs in SV., VS., AV., TS.; verse 6 in MS. IV, 11, 4.
Verse 3. Note 1. Dhd is construed with two accusatives, see RV. III, 45, 4; otherwise vasu might be connected with dâsúshe. The third pada is almost literally repeated soon after, V, 60, 2; see note 1 to 1, 37, 7.
Note 2. Yamanah bhiya may be from fear of your approach.
Verse 6. Note 1. In divah arkah even Bergaigne allows that arká may mean singer, not song.
Note 2. Nấma, name, is here as elsewhere what is meant by the name, therefore immortal being or immortality.
Verse 8. Note 1. Brthadgirayah cannot well mean with a powerful voice. The Maruts are called girishtha, VIII, 94, 12, dwelling on mountains, and like brihaddiva, brihadgiri seems to have been intended for dwelling on high mountains.
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