{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe32/sbe3255.htm","path":"hin/sbe32/sbe3255.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe32/sbe3255.htm","text":"Vedic Hymns, Part I (SBE32), by Max M\u00fcller, [1891]\n1. What could we say to Rudra, the wise, the most liberal, the most powerful, that is most welcome to his heart,\u2014\n2. So that Aditi 1 may bring Rudra's healing to the cattle, to men, to cow, and kith,\n3. So that Mitra, that Varuna, that Rudra hear us, and all the united Maruts 1.\n4. We implore Rudra, the lord of songs, the lord of animal sacrifices 1, the possessor of healing medicines 2, for health, wealth 3, and his favour.\n5. He who shines like the bright sun, and like gold, who is the best Vasu among the gods,\n6. May he bring health to our horse, welfare to ram and ewe, to men, to women, and to the cow!\n7. Bestow on us, O Soma, the happiness of a hundred men, great glory of strong manhood 1;\n8. O Soma 1, let not those who harass and injure overthrow us; O Indu, help us to booty!\n9. Whatever beings are thine, the immortal, in the highest place of the law, on its summit 1, in its centre, O Soma, cherish them, remember them who honour thee.\nAscribed to Kanva Ghaura, and addressed to Rudra (I, 2, 4-6), to Rudra and Mitr\u00e2-Varunau (3), and to Soma (7-9). Metre, G\u00e2yatr\u00ee (1-8); Anushtubh (9). Verse 2 in TS. III, 4, 11, 2; MS. IV, 12, 6.\nThe hymn may be divided into two, the first from 1-6, the second from 7-9. See, however, Bergaigne, III, 32, n. 1; and Recherches sur l\u2019hist. de la Samhit\u00e2, I, 65. He would prefer to divide the whole into three hymns.\nSee T\u00c2. X, 17, I; Delbr\u00fcck, Synt. Forsch. I, 246.\nNote 1. Ludwig takes Aditi here as a name of Rudra; also Hillebrandt, \u00dcber die G\u00f6ttin Aditi, p. 6.\nNote 1. The v\u00edsve sag\u00f3shasah, following on Rudra, can hardly be meant for any but the Maruts, who are often called sag\u00f3shasah. But it may also have been intended for all the gods together.\nNote 1. G\u00e2th\u00e1patim and medh\u00e1patim are both difficult. We expect g\u00e2th\u00e2\u00b4patim and medh\u00e2\u00b4patim. If, as Ludwig maintains, g\u00e2tha in Zend is equivalent to ritu, season, then g\u00e2thapati might be ritupati, a name of Agni, X, 2, 1. But this is extremely doubtful. We must derive g\u00e2th\u00e1pati from g\u00e2th\u0103, I, 167, 6, and medh\u00e1pati from medh\u0103, animal sacrifice, till we know more on the subject.\nNote 2. G\u00e1l\u00e2sha-bheshagam, an epithet of Rudra; see VIII, 29, 5, where Rudra is intended. In II, 33, 7, the arm of Rudra is called bheshag\u00e1h g\u00e1l\u00e2shah; in VII, 35, 6, Rudra himself is called g\u00e1l\u00e2shah. G\u00e1l\u00e2sha seems connected with gala, water. Bergaigne, III, 32, translates it by adoucissant.\nNote 3. On samy\u00f3h, see note 2 to I, 165, 4.\nNote 1. Tuvi-nrimna would seem more appropriate as a vocative. In verse 8, too, I should prefer to take Soma as a vocative, like Benfey and Grassmann.\nNote 1. I read Soma, parib\u00e2\u00b4dhah. See Delbr\u00fcck, Synt. Forsch. p. 116.\nNote 1. Unless we can take m\u00fbrdh\u00e2\u00b4 for a locative, attracted by n\u00e2\u00b4bh\u00e2, I should propose to read m\u00fbrdh\u00e1n n\u00e2\u00b4bh\u00e2. It can hardly be an adverbial Dvandva, m\u00fbrdh\u00e2-n\u00e2bh\u00e2, nor do I see how it can be applied as a nominative to Rudra. The whole verse is difficult, possibly a later addition. On rit\u00e1sya amr\u00edtasya dh\u00e2\u00b4man, see IX, 97, 32; 110, 4 (dh\u00e1rman).","title":"Vedic Hymns, Part I (SBE32): Vedic Hymns: I, 43. To Rudra","type":"page"}