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p. 478. Others take vana for a mere suffix like vat. Prava, rushing forward, would have been a good name for a spring. This, of course, is a mere conjecture. Others derive prava-s from vå, to blow. As a substantive prava as well as upavå occurs AV. XII, 1, 51. vátasya pravám upavám ánu vâty arkih. But these words mean the blowing before and the blowing after, and not blowers. . There are the verbs prava and anuvâ in Tândya Br. I, 9, 7; TS. III, 5, 2, 3; IV, 4, 1, 1. They are there referred to dawn and night. These passages, however, seem too technical to allow us to fix the original meaning of prava-h. Prava in RV. I, 34, 8, remains unexplained.
Verse 7. Note 1. On udriki, see Ludwig's note.
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