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zu wissen.'—Prof. Max Müller believes that navishthåya makes navamam for navatamam excusable : 'to the newest god the newest song.'
Note 4. Såyana supplies to yuktena, not rathena, but manaså.
Verse 4. Note 1. I do not think that Ludwig is right in believing that with verse 4 a new, independent section begins. — Comp. on this verse, vol. xxxii, p. 304 (II, 34, 7, note 3).
Note 2. Me may be accusative, as it frequently is. Should it be a dative, we should have to translate: Who inay tell Asvamedha for my sake.'
Note 3. Medhấm can scarcely depend on dádat; wisdom is not a gift which liberal princes may bestow on singers.
Verse 5. Note 1. Of milk, curds, and barley. See Hillebrandt, Vedische Mythologie, I, p. 209.
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