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Note 2. Are the stones and the grass identical with the stones and grass-blades occurring in the later ritual of the agnyâdheya and agnimanthana (Satapatha Br. II, 1, 1, 8; III, 4, 1, 21; Kâtyâyana IV, 8, 16, &c.) ?
Verse 9. Note 1. Literally, a manly, strong, or bull-like smoke.
Verse 11.
Note 1. This is a play upon words (Mâtarisvä and ámimita mâtári,' he has been shaped in the mother ').
Note 2. Von Bradke (Dyâus Asura, p. 51): des Windes Heerde (?) wird er, wenn er dahingleitet.
Verse 12. Note 1. This Pâda is identical with I, 15, 12. It is a galita.
Verse 13. Note 1. The meaning of asremán (comp. X, 8, 2. asremã vatsáh [i.e. Agni) símivan arâvît) is unknown.
Note 2. The ten fingers.
Verse 14.
Note 1. Comp. von Bradke, loc. cit., 50.
Verse 15. Note 1. Or prathamagấm bráhmanah vísve it viduh: ‘all (people) know him the first-born (son) of the sacred spell’? Comp. I, 34, 2. sómasya venấm ánu vísve st viduh.-Prof. Max Müller writes : ‘Prathamàgåh is the wind, X, 168, 3. It might here refer to the Maruts, who are often said to sing prayers; they know all about Brahman (prayer).”
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