{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe46/sbe46006.htm","path":"hin/sbe46/sbe46006.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe46/sbe46006.htm","text":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46), by Hermann Oldenberg [1897]\n1. Clothe thyself, with thy clothing (of light), O sacrificial (god), lord of all vigour; and then perform this worship for us.\n2. Sit down, most youthful god, as our desirable Hotri, through (our prayerful) thoughts 1, O Agni, with thy word 2 that goes to heaven.\n3. The father verily by sacrificing procures (blessings) for the son 1, the companion for the companion, the elect friend for the friend.\n4. May Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman, triumphant with riches (?) 1, sit down on our sacrificial grass as they did on Manu's.\n5. O ancient Hotri, be pleased with this our friendship also, and hear these prayers.\n6. For whenever we sacrifice constantly 1 to this or to that god, in thee alone the sacrificial food is offered.\n7. May he be dear to us, the lord of the clan, the joy-giving, elect Hotri; may we be dear (to him), possessed of a good Agni (i. e. of good fire).\n8. For the gods, when possessed of a good Agni, have given us excellent wealth, and we think ourselves possessed of a good Agni.\n9. And may there be among us mutual praises of both the mortals, O immortal one, (and the immortals) 1.\n10. With all Agnis (i. e. with all thy fires), O Agni, accept this sacrifice and this prayer, O young (son) of strength 1.\nThis hymn, as well as the whole collection to which it belongs, is ascribed to Sunahsepa \u00c2g\u00eegarti (comp. 24, 12.13). The metre is G\u00e2yatr\u00ee. Bergaigne (Recherches sur l\u2019histoire de la Samhit\u00e2, II, 7) divides this hymn into Trikas, with one single verse added at the end. I cannot find sufficient evidence for this; the appearance in the S\u00e2ma-veda (II, 967\u20139) of a Trika composed of the verses 10. 6. 7 of our hymn is rather against Bergaigne's opinion.\nNote 1. M\u00e1nmabhih may possibly mean, 'with thy (wise) thoughts;' comp., for instance, III, 11, 8. p\u00e1ri v\u00edsv\u00e2ni s\u00fadhit\u00e2 agn\u00e9h asy\u00e2ma m\u00e1nmabhih, 'may we obtain every bliss through Agni's (wise) thoughts,' or 'may we obtain all the blessings of Agni for our prayers.'\nNote 2. V\u00e1kas stands for v\u00e1kas\u00e2. See the passages collected by Lanman, Noun-Inflection, 562, and comp. Roth, Ueber gewisse K\u00fcrzungen des Wortendes im Veda, 5; Joh. Schmidt, Die Pluralbildungen der indogermanischen Neutra, 304 seq. Ludwig also takes v\u00e1kas as instrumental.\nNote 1. Agni is the father, the mortal whose sacrifice he performs, the son.\nNote 1. Can ris\u00e2das be explained as a compound of ri (Tiefstufe of rai, as gu is the Tiefstufe of gau) and *s\u00e2\u00b4das, from the root sad, 'to be triumphant'? Prof. Aufrecht (Bezzenberger's Beitr\u00e4ge, XIV, 83; see also Neisser, Bezz. Beitr. XIX, 143) connects ri- with the Greek \u1f10\u03c1\u03b9- (\u1f10\u03c1\u03b9\u03ba\u03c5\u03b4\u03ae\u03c2) &c.); our hypothesis has the advantage of not leaving the limits of Sanskrit.\u2014Comp. M. M.\u2019s note on V, 60, 7; Ludwig, Ueber die neuesten Arbeiten auf dem Gebiete der Rig-veda-Forschung (1893), p. 7.\nNote 1. On s\u00e1svat\u00e2 t\u00e1n\u00e2 see Lanman, 480, 515, 518.\nNote 1. The comparison of verse 8 and the expression \u00e1mrita m\u00e1rty\u00e2n\u00e2m in the second P\u00e2da of this verse seem to show that ubh\u00e1yesh\u00e2m does not refer to two classes of mortals, the priests and their patrons, but to the mortals and the immortals. A genitive amr\u00edt\u00e2n\u00e2m, which would make this meaning quite clear, can easily be supplied. A Dvandva compound amritamarty\u00e2\u00b4n\u00e2m, which one could feel tempted to conjecture, would have, in my opinion, too modern a character.\u2014Prof. Max M\u00fcller writes: 'I should prefer amrita marty\u00e2n\u00e2m, not exactly as a compound, but as standing for amrit\u00e2n\u00e2m marty\u00e2n\u00e2m. This seems to be Ludwig's opinion too.'\nNote 1. In the translation of sahasah yaho I follow Geldner, Kuhn's Zeitschrift, XXVIII, 195; Ludwig's translation is similar.","title":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46): I, 26","type":"page"}