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VEDIC HYMNS.
Note 6. The prayers? The oblations ?
Note 8. Api-sthitám may have active or passive meaning, 'he who stands on somebody or something,' and 'he on whom somebody or something stands.'
Verse 6. Note 1. The first Påda (and probably also the fourth) belong to the metrical type described by H. O., Prolegomena, p. 68 seq.: the first part, before the caesura, consists of four syllables; and then the Påda goes on as if it had the pentasyllabic opening.
Note 2. After Agni's abode in the Waters and in the wood has been mentioned in the first Pâda, the second Pada possibly refers to his heavenly abode to which the adjective upamá (highest ') seems to point. Thus the
highest skin' would be the sky. But Sâyana, who refers it to the Vedi, may possibly be right. His explanation would very well agree with the second hemistich.
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