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VEDIC HYMNS.
Verse 6. Note 1. Práshti is explained by Sayana as a sort of yoke in the middle, when three horses or other animals are harnessed to a car; róhita as a kind of red deer. Hence Wilson remarks that the sense may be, 'The red deer yoked between them aids to drag the car. But he adds that the construction of the original is obscure, and apparently rude and ungrammatical. Benfey translates, 'Sie führt ein flammenrothes Joch,' and remarks against Wilson that Sayana's definition of práshti as yoke is right, but that of róhita as deer, wrong. If Sayana's authority is to be invoked at all, one might appeal from Sayana in this place to Sayana VIII, 7, 28, where práshti is explained by him either by quick or by pramukhe yugyamanah, harnessed in front. The verse is
yát esham préshatih ráthe práshtih váhati róhitah.
When the red leader draws or leads their spotted deer in the chariot.
VI, 47, 24. práshtih is explained as tripada ådhårah; tadvad vahantîti prashtayo-svah. In I, 100, 17, práshtibhih, as applied to men, means friends or supporters, or, as Sayana explains, pārsvasthair anyair rishibhih.
Ludwig (IV, ad 25, 8) adds some useful information. He quotes from the comm. on Taitt. S. 1,7,8; vamadakshinayor asvayor madhya îshådvayam prasarya tayor madhye saptyákhyagåtiviseshopetam asvam yungyât. The right horse is said to be the arva, the left vågî, the middle saptik. Latyayana II, 7, 23, calls the two side-horses prashti. According to Sayana (Taitt. S. I, 7, 8, p. 1024) prashti means originally a tripod for holding a pot (see above), and afterwards a chariot with three horses. In that case we should have to translate, the red chariot moves along.
Note 2. Aufrecht derives asrot from sru, to shake, without necessity, however ; see Muir's Sanskrit Texts, IV, p. 494.
Ludwig also remarks that asrot might be translated by the earth trembled or vibrated. Similar passages occur RV. I, 127, 3. vîlú kit yásya sám-ritau srúvat vána-iva yát sthirám, at whose approach even what is firm and strong
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| SR No. | 007673 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 03 |
| 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 |