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MANDALA III, HYMN 27.
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Verse 11. Note 1. 'Setting to work the Right (Rita)' means here 'performing the sacrifice.' The sacrifice is considered as a sphere especially pervaded by the power of Rita. Comp. H. O., Religion des Veda, 197..
Note 2. Yantúram (comp. VIII, 19, 2. agním lishva yantúram ; Lanman, 486) must be the same as yantáram (comp. páptup? [M. M.] See de Saussure, Mémoire sur le Système Primitif des Voyelles, p. 207; but comp. also Kretschmer, Kuhn's Zeitschrift, XXXI, p. 447). To me it seems to be an accommodation to aptúram, facilitated probably by the influence of the genitive yantúr. See Lanman, Noun-Inflection in the Veda, p. 486; Wackernagel in Kuhn's Zeitschrift, XXV, 287.
Note 3. See Pischel, Vedische Studien, I, 122 seq. ; H. O., Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen, 1889, p. 4 seq.
Verse 12. Note 1. The text has île. In the same way îlénya) verse 13, ilate verse 14.
Verse 18. Note 1. Observe sám idhyate here and verse 14, sám idhîmahi verse 15. The verses 13-15 form one Trika.
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