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III, 12. COMMENTARY.
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Stanza 3. Hillebrandt and Grill regard the first two Pädas as defective, but they are anushtubh, no poorer than many others in the AV. The Anukr., brihati.
. dharuni is in intentional relation with dhruva, hence 'a supporter ; ' cf. Tait. S. IV, 3, 7, 2. Grill, vielfassend, vielbergend;' Zimmer and Hillebrandt, geräumig.' The Pada is catalectic. . b. brihákkhandah, with broad roof. The translation is problematic, the word being &. dey. khándas does not by itself ever occur in the meaning 'roof' (khadis, khadman). Some support may be derived from st. 5 C, trinam váså nå, since in Hir. Grih. the roof is smoothed with a stanza containing the same Pàda. The words there used are khannam (sc. sålàm) abhimrisati. Sayana, prabhůtakhadana, mahadbhis khandobhir devair upetå vå. For påtidhânya ? of the text of the Saunakîya-sâkhå, the Paippalada reads patadhânyå; this underlies our translation. Cf. pariputeshu dhânyeshu, Manu VIII, 331, and perhaps also the expression krită dhânáh, RV. III, 35, 7.
d. Cf. Sankh. Grih. III, 3, 9, å syandantâm dhenavo nityavatsah. The majority of Shankar Pandit's MSS. (both Padapatha and Samhita) read aspandamanah.
Stansa 4. 0. Most MSS., and the editio princeps, read ukkhántu; Såyana, Shankar Pandit, with some MSS., and the Paippalåda, ukshántu, the basis of our translation. Again, our translation presupposes the reading udná for unna of the edition: the MSS. read utná (cf. VII, 45, 2 ; VII, 18, 1, and the Index Verborum, p. 67). The Paippalada, Shankar Pandit with some of his MSS., and Sayana have udná; cf. RV. I, 85, 5, (marútah) udábhir vy undanti bhúma.
· Sâyana, with desperate literalness, pūligandhopetagîrnadhânyayukta, endowed with evil smelling, old, grain l' Ludwig suggests pratidhânya or prâtidhânya, 'gut zu verschliessen.'
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| SR No. | 007681 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1890 |
| Total Pages | 2695 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 47 MB |