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MANDALA III, HYMN 6.
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to stand metri causa. Or is usádhak an accusative singular neuter, so that the literal translation would be: 'When the gods praised the work, burning in the forests, of the Hotri'?
Verse 8. Note 1. On Ama, comp. Pischel, Vedische Studien, I, 223.
Verse 10. Note 1. Comp. above, II, 2, 7.
Note 2. See Windisch in the Festgruss an Boehtlingk, p. 114.
Note 3. There is one syllable above the number; the metre and meaning would be all right if we were to read adhvaré (for adhvaréva): '(the two goddesses) stand at the sacrifice,' &c. Prof. Max Müller explains : Adhvara-iva, like two sacrifices, like two sacrificial altars, barhis.'
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