Satapatha Bramhana Part 03

SR No.: 007679
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 2382
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

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HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA.
read duhitraú (cf. Amer. Journ. Phil. V, p. 27). Similarly d may be perfected by reading pitrah. d. For the appeal to the Fathers for help, cf. II, 12, 4.
Stanza 2. &. For vidmá of the Saunakîya school the Paippalada reads véda val, and Grill and Hillebrandt adopt this version for metrical reasons. But the metre is not really improved by the change.
b. narssh tâ, 'mirth' (cf. XI, 8, 24), refers to the social not the political side of the sabha, which, in addition to being the meeting of the council, is also the occasion and place for gaming (cf. AV. XII, 3, 46), and social intercourse (cf. RV. VI, 28, 6). The word, too, perhaps conveys a double entente, nar, 'man,' and sthå, 'place,' or suggests a quasi-superlative, 'most favourable to men.' Thus the variant form narlshthâ, Våg. S. XXX, 6, presents the effect of this kind of folk-etymology upon the word. Såyana (as if the word were a compound na-ríshtà), ahimsitâ parair anabhibhâvya.
VII, 13. COMMENTARY TO PAGE 93. - According to Kaus. 48, 35-36, the hymn is spoken against the enemies that are to be deprived of power, the second stanza while fixing one's regard upon them. Cf. also Sântikalpa 15%. The hymn has been rendered by Ludwig, Der Rigveda, III, 241 ; Grill?, pp. 23, 179; Henry, Le livre VII de l'Atharva-véda, pp. 5, 56. The Anukramanî, saumyam.
Stanza 2. Cf. Ludwig, 1. c., p. 265. That the sun takes away the strength of those who are asleep while it rises or sets, is a notion abundantly elaborated in connection with all holy practices. Such persons are designated as sûryâbhyudita, and sûryabhinimrukta (-mlukta, -mlupta), and they are
Quoted erroneously by Sâyana as Nakshatrakalpa.
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