Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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NOTES. X, 121.
in XXV, 10, followed by verse 3 (XXV, 11), by verse 4 (XXV, 12), and then by verse 2 (XXV, 13).
We have verses 5.6.7.8 in VS. XXXII. 6 and 7, and verses 7 and 8 in VS. XXVII. 25 and 26, while verse o is found in XII, 102 only, and the last verse in X, 206, and XXIII. 65.
In the Taitt. Samhita the verses follow more regularly, still never quite in the same order as in the Rig-veda. In TS. IV, 1, 8, 39, we have verses i to 8, but verse 3 before verse 2, and verse 6 before verse 5, while verse 9 follows in IV, 2, 7, 1.
In TS.v. 3 stands before v. 2, in VII,5,16,1, and VII, 5, 17, 1.
In TS. II, 2, 12, the pratîkas of verses 1, 7, 10 are quoted in succession.
Verse 7 occurs with important various readings in TA. 1, 23, 8, apo ha yád brihatîr gárbham ayan dáksham dádhana ganayantîh svayambhúm, táta imés dhyásrigyanta sárgah.
Lastly in the AV. we find verses 1 to 7 from IV, 2, 1, to IV, 2, 7, but arranged in a different order, viz. as 2, 3, 6, 5, 4, 7, 1, and with important various readings.
Verse 2, yố' 3 syése dvipado yás kátushpadah, as third pâda; also in XIII, 3, 24.
Verse 3, ekó råga; yásya khayamritam yasya mrityuh, as third påda.
Verse 4, yasya vísve; samudré yásya rasãm id ahúh; imåska.
Verse 5, yasya dyaúr urvi prithivi ka mahî yasyâdá urvai ntáriksham, yásya saú sűro vítato mahitvã.
Verse 6, avatas kaskabhâné bhiyáså ne rodasî áhvayethâm (sic), yasyàsaú panthå ragaso vimânah.
Verse 7, apo ágre visvam aván gárbham dádhanà amrità ritagñáh, yâsu devishv ádhi devá asit.
Verse 10, visva rapāni paribhữr gagana, see VII, 79, 4, and 80, 3.
We are justified, therefore, in looking upon the verses, composing this hymn, as existing before the
a Var. lect. mã ma, satyadharma vyanal, prathamo for brihatih. b Var. lect. růpáni for bhatấni.
c Var. lect., ver. 5, dridhé, dual for drilhã; ver. 6, úditau vyeti for údito vibhäti; ver. 8, agním for yagñám.
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