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.
II, 34, 10.
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however, of no strictly analogous cases, and prefer to take tápushå as an instrumental, this being its usual employment.
Verse 10. Note 1. The second line is obscure. Neither Grassmann nor Ludwig nor Sayana can extract any intelligible meaning from it. I have translated it, but I am far from satisfied. There may be an antithesis between the friends (the Maruts themselves, see V, 53, 2), milking the udder of Prisni, and the Maruts coming to blame their friends for not offering them sacrifices, or for offering them sacrifices in common with Indra. In the first case when they, as friends, milk the cloud, their approach is brilliant and auspicious. In the second case, when they come to blame those who ought to celebrate them, or those who are actually hostile to them by causing the ruin or decay of a friend of the Maruts, such as Trita, their approach is likewise brilliant, but not auspicious. Trita is a friend of the Maruts whom they assist in battle, and it is possible that this legend may be alluded to here. Sometimes Trita seems also connected with the third libation which was offered at sunset, just as Vishnu represented the second libation which was offered at noon. Thus we read, VIII, 12, 16. yát sómam indra vishnavi yát và gha trite aptvẻ sát và marutsu mándase, whether you, Indra, enjoy the Soma near Vishnu, or near Trita Åptya, or among the Maruts.' Sakapuni, as quoted by Yaska (Nir. XII, 19), explains the three steps of Vishnu as earth, sky, and heaven; Aurnavabha distinguishes Samarohana, Vishnupada, and Gayasiras. But all this does not help us to disentangle our verse. It should be added that Bergaigne makes Tritám to be governed by duhúh (Rel. Véd. II, 327). We should then have to translate, or whether they milk Trita in order to blame the singer, to make them old who make
a Odinn is styled Thridi, by the side of Hâr and Tafnhậr (the high and the even high) as the Third High. At other times he is Tveggi (secundus). Grimm's Teutonic Mythology, vol. I, p. 162.
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