{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe32/sbe3258.htm","path":"hin/sbe32/sbe3258.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe32/sbe3258.htm","text":"Vedic Hymns, Part I (SBE32), by Max M\u00fcller, [1891]\n1. Soma and Rudra, may you maintain your divine dominion, and may the oblations reach you properly. Bringing the seven treasures to every house, be kind to our children and our cattle.\n2. Soma and Rudra, draw far away in every direction 1 the disease 2 which has entered our house. Drive far away Nirriti 3, and may auspicious glories belong to us!\n3. Soma and Rudra, bestow all these remedies on our bodies. Tear away and remove from us 1 whatever evil we have committed, which clings to our bodies.\n4. Soma and Rudra, wielding sharp weapons and sharp bolts, kind friends, be gracious unto us here! Deliver us from the snare of Varuna, and guard us, as kind-hearted gods!\nAscribed to Bh\u00e2radv\u00e2ga B\u00e2rhaspatya. Verse 2 occurs TS. I, 8, 22, 5; AV. VII, 42, 1; verse 3, TS. I, 8, 22, 5; AV. VII, 42, 2. All the four verses, but in a different order (3, 1, 2, 4), in MS. IV, 11, 2; see also K\u00e2th. XI, 12. Metre, Trishtubh.\nThis is the only hymn addressed to Soma and Rudra. In the Kh\u00e2ndogya Up. III, 7 and 9, the Rudras are said to have Indra, while the Maruts have Soma at their head.\nIt is translated by Geldner and Kaegi.\nThe whole hymn betrays its secondary character; first by violating the law of decrease, secondly by duals in au before consonants, and thirdly by using a very large number of passages from other hymns. Compare verse 1, p\u00e2da c, with V, 1, 5, c; verse 2, p\u00e2da c, with I, 24, 9, c; verse 2, p\u00e2da d, with VI, 1, 12, d. Phrases like verse 1, p\u00e2da d, s\u00e1m nah bh\u00fbtam dvip\u00e1de s\u00e1m k\u00e1tuhpade, occur again and again, with slight modifications; see I, 114, 1; 157, 3; VII, 54, 1; X, 165, 1. Sumanasy\u00e1m\u00e2n\u00e2 also is suspicious. It occurs again in the next hymn, the last of the Mandala, in VII, 33, 14, likewise a suspected hymn, and in the tenth Mandala, X, 51, 5; 7.\nNote 1. On v\u00edsh\u00fbk\u00eem, see II, 33, 2.\nNote 2. \u00c1m\u00eev\u00e2 has been identified with \u1f00\u03bd\u1fd1\u03b1 by Fick, Orient und Occident, III, p. 121. The difficulty is m = n.\nNote 3. The AV. reads b\u00e2\u00b4dheth\u00e2m d\u00fbr\u00e1m n\u00edrritim, the AV. and TS. read par\u00e2ka\u00edh krit\u00e1m kid \u00e9nah pr\u00e1 mumuktam asm\u00e1t.\nNote 1. AV. reads asm\u00e1t for asm\u00e9, and \u00e1sat for \u00e1sti. Verse 4. In the Maitr. S. the second half of this verse is, mumukt\u00e1m asm\u00e2\u00b4n grasit\u00e2\u00b4n abh\u00ee\u00b4ke pr\u00e1 yakkhatam vrishan\u00e2 s\u00e1ntam\u00e2ni.","title":"Vedic Hymns, Part I (SBE32): Vedic Hymns: VI, 74. To Soma and Rudra","type":"page"}