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VEDIC HYMNS.
seq.); we have no reason, in such a case, to resort to such an expedient as changing the traditional order of verses in the Rig-veda text.
Verse 1.
Note 1. We have first the indicative, then the optative.
Verse 2. Note 1. Divisprísah no doubt is genitive sing. referring to Agni, not nominative pl. referring to the worshippers.
Verse 3. Note 1. Ludwig is right in observing here: 'eigentlich er spreche die yâgyâs als einladung für die götter.'
Verse 6. Note 1. On riñgase, comp. Bartholomae, Indogermanische Forschungen, II, 281; Neisser, Bezzenberger's Beiträge, XX, 59. I take the form here as 2nd singular.
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