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MANDALA IV, HYMN 5.
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15. The face of this kindled, manly Vasu has shone gloriously in the house. Clothed in brilliancy, with his shape beautiful to behold, the bountiful has shone like a house with its wealth.
NOTES.
The hymn is addressed to Vaisvânara. The same Rishi and metre.- No verse occurs in the other Samhitås.
Verse 1. Note 1. Cf. especially I, 45, 8 (above, p. 42). brihát bhah blbhratah havih.
Note 2. Cf. vol. xxxii, p. 93 (1, 38, 11, note 2).
Verse 2. Note 1. See above, I, 36, 1, note 2.
Verse 3. Note 1. Dvibárhåh is neuter. See Lanman, p. 560; Joh. Schmidt, Pluralbildungen der Indogermanischen Neutra, p. 132.
Note 2. Agni has discovered the Såman which he proclaims to the mortal, like the track of a last cow.
Verse 5. Note 1. See H. O., Religion des Veda, p. 539.
Note 2. Abhràtárah cannot be accusative plural fem., as Zimmer (Altindisches Leben, p. 419) seems to take it. The correct interpretation has been given by Pischel, Vedische Studien, I, p. 299. Note 3. I.e. hell.
Verse 6. Note 1. In the younger Vedic ritual certain Stotras are technically designated as prishtha or 'backs' of the liturgies
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