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oblations. Thee who extendest over wide spaces, who dwellest in ghee, into whom offerings are poured, they have made their eye, impetuous, stirring thoughts.
7. Thee, O Agni, on whom offerings of ghee are poured, (men) desirous of thy favour have kindled from of old with good fuel. Thus, grown strong, increased by the plants, thou spreadest thyself over the terrestrial spaces.
VEDIC HYMNS.
NOTES.
The same Rishi. Metre, Gagati.-Verse 3=TS. III, 3, II, 2. Verses 6, 7 = TB. I, 2, 1, 12.
Verse 2.
Note 1. The Padapâtha gives garat-visham. I prefer this explanation to gara-dvísham ('who hates decay').
Verse 3.
Note 1. Agni is, in the later ritual, worshipped as 'separator' (víviki), if the sacrificer's fires have become mixed with other fires. See Taittiriya Brahmana III, 7, 3, 5; Satapatha Brahmana XII, 4, 4, 2 (where this very verse is quoted), &c.
Verse 4.
Note 1. For yasásâ, Böhtlingk-Roth conjecture yásasâ, which seems to me a conjectura nimis facilis. I think that the adjective yasásâ is right, and that a noun, meaning 'offering' or the like, should be supplied. Cf. above, IV, I, 16, note 4.
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