{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe46/sbe46020.htm","path":"hin/sbe46/sbe46020.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe46/sbe46020.htm","text":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46), by Hermann Oldenberg [1897]\n1. May we, the poor 1, succeed in many (pious) thoughts 2. May Agni with his pure splendour attain everything\u2014\n2. He who understands the divine laws and the birth of the human race.\n3. He who is the child of the waters, the child of the trees, the child of that which stands, and the child of that which moves.\n4. Even in the rock (they have done homage [?]) to him, in his dwelling 1. (He is) like a protector [?] 2 of the clans, the immortal one, he who is of a good mind.\n5. For he, Agni, (shows himself as) an earth-protecting (lord) of riches 1 to the man who satisfies him with well-spoken (prayers).\n6. Protect, O knowing one, these beings, thou who knowest the birth of gods and men 1.\n7. He whom many nights (and dawns), in their different forms 1, may increase, whom that which moves 2 and that which stands (increases), the god penetrated by Rita\u2014\n8. That Hotri who has sat down in the sun 1, has been successfully worshipped 2 (by the human sacrificers), he who truly accomplishes all his works.\n9. On the cows, on the trees thou hast conferred excellence. May all men bring us tribute in the sun 1.\n10. In many places men have worshipped thee. They have brought (thee) to different places 1 as sons (divide) the property of an aged father 2.\n11 1. (He is) like a greedy man 2 who goes straight (to his aim), like a mighty archer, like a fearful avenger [?] 3, impetuous in contests 4.\nThe same Rishi and metre.\nNote 1. I adopt Bergaigne's opinion on the word ar\u00ed (see Religion V\u00e9dique, II, 218 seq.).\nNote 2. The Padap\u00e2tha has man\u00eesh\u00e2\u00b4 instead of man\u00eesh\u00e2\u00b4h. See my Prolegomena, 385; Lanman, 363. Prof. Max M\u00fcller proposes to translate: 'May we by wisdom overcome many enemies!' He writes: 'Is not vanema almost a standing formula as applied to enemies? Let us conquer the enemies. The enemies are masculine in VII, 48, 3. v\u00edsv\u00e2n ary\u00e1h \u2026 vanvan, feminine in VI, 16, 27. vanv\u00e1ntah ary\u00e1h \u00e1r\u00e2t\u00eeh. VIII, 39, 2. v\u00edsv\u00e2h ary\u00e1h \u00e1r\u00e2t\u00eeh. X, 133, 3. v\u00edsv\u00e2h \u00e1r\u00e2tayah ary\u00e1h. IV, 50, 11. gagast\u00e1m ary\u00e1h van\u00fash\u00e2m \u00e1r\u00e2t\u00eeh (repeated VII, 97, 9; cf. I, 29, 4).' For my translation I refer to II, 5, 7. st\u00f3mam \u2026 van\u00e9ma; II, 11, 12. dh\u00edyam vanema; I, 122, 14. ary\u00e1h g\u00edrah; X, 148, 3. ary\u00e1h v\u00e2 g\u00edrah abh\u00ed arka vidv\u00e2\u00b4n.\nNote 1. Or: even in the rock (they have done homage) to him, and in the (human) dwelling? I believe we must supply a verb on which the dative asmai depends. Ludwig proposes to read duron\u00e1m: 'within the stone is his dwelling.' Comp. II, 1, 1; VI, 48, 5.\nNote 2. I do not understand vis\u00e2\u00b4m n\u00e1 v\u00edsvah. Ludwig translates 'er ist der menschen allgemeiner, unsterblicher\nf\u00fcrsorger.' But v\u00edsva does not mean 'allgemein,' and Ludwig omits n\u00e1, 'like.' One should expect a phrase like vis\u00e2\u00b4m n\u00e1 visp\u00e1tih, which of course is metrically impossible. Is it too bold to correct v\u00edsvah into visp\u00e2\u00b4h, a word hitherto not found in the texts, but formed exactly like stip\u00e2\u00b4, pasup\u00e2\u00b4, tan\u00fbp\u00e2\u00b4 and others?\u2014Prof. Max M\u00fcller takes asmai as dependent on sv\u00e2dh\u00ee\u00b4h and v\u00edsvah as belonging at the same time to amr\u00edtah and to vis\u00e2\u00b4m. He translates: 'To him also who dwells in the rock and in the house, every immortal like every one among men is well disposed.'\nNote 1. Comp. VII, 10, 5. s\u00e1 h\u00ed ksh\u00e1p\u00e2v\u00e2n \u00e1bhavat ray\u00een\u00e2\u00b4m.\nNote 1. Most probably we have here not the accusative m\u00e1rt\u00e2n but the genitive m\u00e1rt\u00e2m, which was confounded by the arrangers of the traditional text with the accusative and treated according to the Sandhi rules which govern the ending -\u00e2n. See . Lanman, Noun-Inflection, 353 Bartholomae, Studien zur indogermanischen Sprachgeschichte, I, 48.\nNote 1. Lanman (p. 422) takes kshap\u00e1h v\u00edr\u00fbp\u00e2h as accusatives, and translates, 'Whom through many nights and mornings all beings worship.' I believe that they are nominatives, and that we should accentuate ksh\u00e1pah. As v\u00edr\u00fbpa is a regular epithet of n\u00e1ktosh\u00e2\u00b4s\u00e2, I think that ksh\u00e1pah is to be understood as an elliptic plural similar to the elliptic duals ush\u00e2\u00b4s\u00e2 or \u00e1han\u00ee (comp. Delbr\u00fcck, Altindische Syntax, 102), and that it means, 'the nights (and mornings).'\u2014Comp. VI, 38, 4. v\u00e1rdh\u00e2n m\u00e2\u00b4s\u00e2h sar\u00e1dah dy\u00e2\u00b4vah \u00edndram, 'May months, years, days increase Indra's greatness.'\nNote 2. Of course ka r\u00e1tham is a mistake for kar\u00e1tham, as first pointed out by Benfey.\nNote 1. On the locative s\u1e7dar, see Lanman, 488; Joh. Schmidt in Kuhn's Zeitschrift, XXVII, 306; Bartholomae in Bezzenberger's Beitr\u00e4ge, XV, 42. Comp. X, 61, 14. s\u1e7dah n\u00e1 y\u00e9 trishadhasth\u00e9 nished\u00fah.\nNote 2. Comp. X, 53, 2. \u00e1r\u00e2dhi h\u00f3t\u00e2 nish\u00e1d\u00e2 y\u00e1g\u00eey\u00e2n.\nNote 1. Is it not more probable that tribute was brought to Agni (comp. V, 1, 10) than to the human worshippers? Possibly we should change s\u1e7dah nah (s\u1e7dar nah of the Samhit\u00e2p\u00e2tha) into svarnah, a vocative of the stem s\u1e7darnri = s\u1e7darnara. The translation would be, 'All men have brought tribute to thee, O sun-hero!'\nNote 1. Comp. V, 11, 4. agn\u00edm n\u00e1rah v\u00ed bharante grih\u00e9grihe.\nNote 2. Regarding the metre, comp. above, 69, 8, note 1.\nNote 1. This verse may possibly be a later addition. See Bergaigne, Recherches sur l\u2019Histoire de la Samhit\u00e2, I, 61.\nNote 2. On gridhn\u00fa, comp. Pischel, Ved. Studien, I, 231.\nNote 3. Comp. I, 32, 14. \u00e1heh y\u00e2t\u00e2\u00b4ram.\nNote 4. See above, 66, 6.","title":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46): I, 70","type":"page"}