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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XII, 4. COMMENTARY.
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Stanza 3. . For kûtá, cf. Geldner, Vedische Studien, I, 138. asya seems to refer to gấvah, understood from the context.
b. kåtám ardati is difficult: kätám is unquestionably a Prâkritic form for kartám, AV. IV, 12, 7 (cf. similarly kévate, RV. VI, 54, 7). For ardati one would expect some word for 'fall,' or 'push,' but the word means 'burst, go to pieces.' Perhaps kätám is the subject, 'the deep ground bursts' (cf. RV. IV, 17, 2; AV. XIX, 9, 8, descriptive of earthquakes), but this does not quite do justice to kâtám.
d. The Paippalâda has for dîyate the preferable reading giyate, ‘his property is wrung (from him).' For the interchange of the sound-groups di and gî (dy and gy), see the writer in Amer. Journ. Phil. VII, 482.
Stanza 4. a. vilohitá, designation of some disease, also IX, 8, 1; perhaps, 'flow of blood from the nose.' Henry, Les livres VIII et IX de l'Atharva-véda, pp. 105, 142, 'décomposition du sang. Both translations are purely etymological, but we may note that the word occurs in connection with other ailments of the head at IX, 8, 1. Cf. also 16hita VI, 127, 1, note.
C, d. The passage is not quite clear. sámvidyam, &r. dey., may mean 'possession.' Ludwig, 'name.' At any rate there seems to be an attempt to etymologise upon, or explain, vasá as a derivative from the root vas, 'control :' the character of the vasá, quasi'controller,' is such that she cannot be deceived (duradabhná). We should expect ukyate for ukyase: the Paippalâda also reads ukyase. The Pet. Lexs. translate duradabhna (also st. 19), by 'getting the better of gates,' i.e. not to be confined.' This is ingeniously improbable, and contrary to the more usual rendering of the perfect passive participle. The prefixes dur- and a- represent a double negative for emphasis; the word is a stronger version of dů-dábha. Stanza 4 may be suspected of having stood originally [42]
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