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Note 2. Dadhiré purák: they have made him Purohita.
Note 3. Comp. above, V, 9, 6.
Verse 2. Note 1. On Bhaga, the divine Bestower or Dispenser of riches, cf. Herbert Baynes. The Biography of Bhaga (Actes dų huitième Congrès intern. des Orientalistes, Sect. II, fasc. I, pp. 83 seq.).
Verse 4. Note 1. To them, i.e. the Maghavans. Compare below, 18, 3. 4.
Note 2. Mamhánå seems to be instrumental. Comp. 10. 2; 18, 2.
Note 3. Agni is himself yahvá; so ná cannot be the comparative particle, but it must be the negation. Similarly it is said in II, 16, 3 that Heaven and Earth cannot encompass the indriya of Indra; cf. also X, 27, 7.
Verse 6. Note 1. Váryam seems to depend on a bhara. With the whole phrase compare the first Pâda of V, 17, 5.
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