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VEDIC HYMNS.
Verse 2. Note 1. Comp. II, 16, 1. sndram aguryám garáyantam.
Verse 4. Note 1. As to agáraih, the undecaying (flames), comp. III, 18, 2; VI, 5, 4; 6, 2; VII, 3, 3; X, 87, 20.
Verse 5. Note 1. That Agni should be identified here with the Rishi Atri (see Bergaigne, II, 468) is very improbable. Possibly átri means simply the eater' (from ad), though the poet in calling him so may have intended to allude to the name of the Rishi.
Note 2. Comp. I, 80, i seq. árkan ánu svarágyam ; 84, 10 seq. vásvih anu svarágyam.
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