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. 1, 87, 6.
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honours will occur again and again : cf. I, 6, 4; 72, 3. A similar expression is used of the Ribhus, I, 20, 8, &c. But while originally the expression of obtaining sacred names meant no more than obtaining a sacred or divine character, it was soon taken literally, and a number of names were invented for the Maruts which even in the Vagasan. Samhita XVII, 80–85 amount to 49, i.e. 7* 7. Yagñlya, properly
worthy of sacrifice,' has the meaning of divine or sacred. The Greek dycos has been compared with yagya, sacrificio colendus, which is not a Vedic word.
Verse 6. Note 1. Sriyáse kám seems to be the same as the more frequent sriyé kám. Sriyase only occurs twice more, V, 59, 3. The chief irregularity consists in the absence of Guna, which is provided for by Panini's kasen (III, 4, 9). Similar infinitives, if they may so be called, are bhiyáse, V, 29, 4; vridháse, V, 64, 5; dhruvase, VII, 70, 1; tugase, IV, 23, 7; riñgáse, VIII, 4, 17; vriñgáse, VIII, 76, 1; rikáse, VII, 61, 6. In VI, 39, 5, rikase may be a dat. sing. of the masculine, to the praiser.
Note 2. Mimikshire from myaksh, to be united with. Rasmi, rays, after bhånú, splendour, may seem weak. It might be possible to assign to rasmi the meaning of reins, and take rikvabhir in the sense of sounding or tinkling. In V, 79, 8, arkl is used in juxta position with rasmi.
Note 8. The bearing of this concluding verse is not quite clear, unless we take it as a continuation of the preceding verse. It was there said that the Maruts (the rikvanah) obtained their holy names after having joined Indra in his work, which means that they then and there became what they are. Having thus obtained their true character and a place among the gods, they may be said to have won at the same time splendour, and worshippers to sing their praises, and to have established themselves in what became afterwards known as their own domain, their own place among the gods who are invoked at the sacrifice. See VII, 58, 1.
The metre requires that we should read dhamanah.
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