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VEDIC HYMNS.
MANDALA I, HYMN 149. ASHTAKA II, ADHYÅYA 2, VARGA 18. 11 Towards, great wealth this lord of the house advances, the strong one in the abode of strong wealth. Let the stones honour him as he speeds forward.
2. He the manly (bull) as of men so of the two worlds, whose stream is drunk by living beings? in consequence of his renown-he who running forward has ripened in (his mother's) womb .
3. He who lighted up the ... stronghold, the racer, the sage, like a .... horse, shining like the sun, endowed with hundredfold life.
4. He who has a twofold birth (celestial and terrestrial), the flaming one has approached the threefold light, all spaces of the atmosphere, the Hotri, the best sacrificer, in the abode of the Waters.
5. This is the Hotri having a twofold birth? who has bestowed all the best gifts, out of desire of glory, on the quick mortal who worships him.
NOTES. The same Rishi. Metre, Virág.–Verses 3-5 = SV. II, 1124-1126.
Verse 1. Note 1. My translation of this verse differs from that of Pischel, Ved. Studien, II, 100.
Note 2. On pátih dán, comp. Hübschmann, Vocalsystem, 142; Bartholomae, Arische Forschungen, 1,70; Joh. Schmidt, Kuhn's Zeitschrift, XXVII, 309; Pischel, Vedische Studien,
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