Satapatha Bramhana Part 03

SR No.: 007679
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 2382
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

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HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA.
The latter change results in the best metre. Sâyana, coolly, âyati prâpnuvanti.
VI, 64. COMMENTARY TO PAGE 136.
This hymn is rubricated in the gana, or series, entitled sâmmanasyâni in Kaus. 12, 5, and the practices are the same as those employed in connection with III, 30, above. The entire hymn is repeated with many variants in RV. X, 191, 2-4, in Maitr. S. II, 2, 6, and in Tait. Br. II, 4, 4, 4 ff. It has been translated by Ludwig, Der Rigveda, III, 372; Grill 2, pp. 31, 164; cf. also Zimmer, p. 175, and the wellknown translations of RV. X, 191.
Stanza 1.
a. The RV. and Tait. Br. read, sám gakkhadhvam sám vadadhvam; the Maitr. S., sám gakkhadhvam sám gânîdhvam.
d. Cf. Pank. Br. II, 2, 4; Âsv. Sr. II, 11, 10.
Stanza 2.
Of the four texts, cited above, no one has precisely the same readings, though the sense is essentially the same in all. For the samânám havíh, cf. the introduction to VI, 39, and the foot-note on VI, 39, 1.
Stanza 3.
d. All the texts read yátha vah súsaha-sati; the Padapâthas of the RV. and AV. resolve súsaha ásati. This leaves upon our hands a compound adverb súsaha, which I have translated 'perfectly in common.' Ludwig resolves susahâ asati, translating 'that you may have easy victory. It is possible, too, to ignore the Padakâra, and read sú sahá ásati, and translate again as we have done. I had thought also of emending yáthâ vásu sahấ sati, 'that you may have possessions in common,' and found later that the Padapâtha of the Maitr. S. had something similar in mind, reading, vasú sahá âsati. Cf. also the simple saha-sati at AV. VII, 36.
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