Grihya Sutras

SR No.: 007685
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1886
Total Pages: 2642
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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VEDIC HYMNS.
Verse 6.
WILSON: Which is chief leader among you, agitators of heaven and earth, who shake all around, like the top (of a tree)?
BENFEY: Wer, Helden! ist der erste euch-ihr Erd- und Himmel-schütterer !-wenn ihr sie schüttelt Wipfeln gleich? LUDWIG: Wer ist der grösste bei euch, helden, wenn vom himel und der erde, schütteler, ihr am saume gleichsam rüttelt!
Note 1. Ántam ná, literally, like an end, explained by Sâyana as the top of a tree. Wilson, Langlois, and Benfey accept that interpretation. Roth proposes, like the hem of a garment, which I prefer; for vastrânta, the end of a garment, is a common expression in later Sanskrit, while anta is never applied to a tree in the sense of the top of a tree. Here agra would be more appropriate.
Verse 7.
WILSON: The householder, in dread of your fierce and violent approach, has planted a firm (buttress); for the many-ridged mountain is shattered (before you).
BENFEY: Vor eurem Gange beuget sich, vor eurem wilden Zorn der Mann; der Hügel weichet und der Berg.
LUDWIG Vor eurem anzug, eurem gewaltigen eifer, niederduckte sich der mensch, wich der festgeknotete [wolken]berg.
Note 1. Sâyana translates: Man has planted a firm buttress to give stability to his dwelling.' The reading ná for ní, which Aufrecht adopted, is untenable, as Ludwig shows. It has been altered in the second edition. See also VIII, 7, 5, ní yemiré. Nidadhré is the perfect Åtmanepada, and expresses the holding down of the head or the cowering attitude of man. I have taken ugraya manyáve over to gihîta, because these words could hardly form an apposition to yẩmâya. As the Vedic poets speak of the very mountains as shaken by the storms, we might translate párvato girih by the gnarled or rocky mount;
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