{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe46/sbe46040.htm","path":"hin/sbe46/sbe46040.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe46/sbe46040.htm","text":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46), by Hermann Oldenberg [1897]\n1. Being inflamed, Agni, bring hither to-day the gods to the man who holds forth the (sacrificial) ladle. Spin out the ancient thread (of sacrifice) 1 for the sacrificer who has prepared Soma.\n2. Measure out, O Tan\u00fbnap\u00e2t 1, the sacrifice rich in ghee, rich in honey, of a priest like me, of a sacrificer who has toiled hard.\n3. The brilliant, purifying, wonderful Nar\u00e2samsa 1 mixes the sacrifice with honey three times a day, the god worthy of worship among the gods.\n4. Agni, magnified 1 by us, bring hither the bright, beloved Indra. For this my prayer is addressed 2 to thee whose tongue is good.\n5. (Priests) hold forth the (sacrificial) ladle, strewing the sacrificial grass at the decorous service of the sacrifice;\u2014I 1 trim 2 (the sacrificial grass) which best receives the gods with its wide extent, a big shelter for Indra.\n6 1. May the divine doors open themselves, the increasers of Rita, the never sticking, large ones, the purifying, much-desired (doors), that the gods may come forth.\n7. May Night and Dawn, of glorious appearance, the two neighbouring (goddesses), wearing beautiful ornaments 1, the young 2 mothers of Rita, sit down together on the sacrificial grass 3.\n8. May the two divine Hotris, eager in praising (the gods), the sages with lovely tongues, perform\nfor us to-day this successful sacrifice which attains to Heaven.\n9. The brilliant (goddess) placed among the gods, among the Maruts 1, Hotr\u00e2 Bh\u00e2rat\u00ee 2, Il\u00e2, Sarasvat\u00ee, and Mah\u00ee 3: may these worshipful (goddesses) sit down on the sacrificial grass.\n10. May Tvashtri, inclined towards us, pour forth for us, in our navel 1, that wonderful seed with many treasures 2, plentiful by itself, for the sake of prosperity and wealth 3.\n11. Letting go (the sacrificial food to the gods) sacrifice by thyself to the gods, O tree 1. May 2 Agni make the offerings ready 3, the god among the gods, the wise one.\n12. For Him who is accompanied by P\u00fbshan and by the Maruts, by the Visve dev\u00e2h, (by) V\u00e2yu 1, who is moved by the G\u00e2yatra song, for Indra pronounce the Sv\u00e2h\u00e2 over the offering.\n13. Come hither to the offerings over which the Sv\u00e2h\u00e2 has been pronounced, in order to feast. Indra! Come hither! Hear our call! Thee they call at the worship.\nThe hymn is an \u00c2pr\u00ees\u00fbkta. The same Rishi. Metre, Anushtubh. The whole hymn is closely related to I, 13.\u2014Verse 10: cf. VS. XXVII, 20; TS. IV, 1, 8, 3; MS. II, 12, 6.\nNote 1. The third P\u00e2da of this verse is identical with VIII, 13, 14.\nNote 1. Comp. I, 13, 2, note 1.\nNote 1. 'Magnified' is \u00eelit\u00e1h; comp. the note on I, 1, 1. The verse is addressed to the Idah.\nNote 2. The text has \u00e1kkha \u2026 vaky\u00e1te. To me there seems to be no doubt that this is the passive of vak, not of va\u00f1k. Comp. the name of the priest akkh\u00e2v\u00e2ka, and the phrase \u00e1kkhoktibhih mat\u00een\u00e2\u00b4m, I, 61, 3; 184, 2. The same passive of vak is found III, 39, 1. mat\u00edh hrid\u00e1h \u00e2\u00b4 vaky\u00e1m\u00e2n\u00e2 (then follows \u00e1kkha \u2026 gig\u00e2ti); X, 47, 7 (st\u00f3m\u00e2h) \u2026 m\u00e1nas\u00e2 vaky\u00e1m\u00e2n\u00e2h.\u2014It may be observed that in our passage as well as in III, 39, 1 and X, 47, 7, the forms vaky\u00e1te, vaky\u00e1m\u00e2n\u00e2, vaky\u00e1m\u00e2n\u00e2h are preceded by a vowel; and we may infer that the poet did not say uky\u00e1te, &c., in order to avoid the hiatus.\nNote 1. The poet begins as if he intended to say, 'Priests \u2026 lay down the sacrificial grass.' But he continues, I lay down.' Dr. Neisser (Bezzenberger's Beitr\u00e4ge, XX, 60) tries to explain the difficulty in a way in which I cannot follow him.\nNote 2. On the verb vrig technically connected with barh\u00edh, see Geldner, Vedische Studien, I, 152 seq., and compare vol. xxxii, I, 38, 1, note 2; I, 64, 1, note 2.\nNote 1. With the whole verse compare I, 13, 6.\nNote 1. Pischel's opinion (Vedische Studien, II, 113 seq.) that p\u00e9sah means 'Gestalt,' 'Form,' 'Farbe,' 'r\u00fbpa,' does not convince me.\nNote 2. See Geldner, Kuhn's Zeitschrift, XXVIII, 195.\nNote 3. Comp. VIII, 87, 4. \u00e2\u00b4 barh\u00edh s\u00eedatam sum\u00e1t. Geldner (Vedische Studien, II, 190) translates: 'das sch\u00f6ne Opfergras.'\nNote 1. 'Should we read m\u00e1rteshu for mar\u00fatsu?' M. M. This conjecture seems perhaps rather bold.\nNote 2. Hotr\u00e2 Bh\u00e2rat\u00ee, i. e. the personified Offering of the Bharatas, seems to be one goddess, more usually called simply Bh\u00e2rat\u00ee. Comp. I, 22, 10; II, 1, 11; III, 62, 3; Bergaigne, Religion V\u00e9dique, I, 322; H. O., Religion des Veda, 243, note 2. Pischel's opinion (Vedische Studien, II, 85) is different.\nNote 3. See above, I, 13, 9, note 1.\nNote 1. On the navel as the symbol of the connection between father and son, see Bergaigne, I, 35, 36, and comp. the well-known name N\u00e2bh\u00e2nedishtha.\nNote 2. For pur\u00fa v\u00e2\u00b4ram very probably puruv\u00e2\u00b4ram should be read (Grassmann). See II, 40, 4. puruv\u00e2\u00b4ram \u2026 r\u00e2y\u00e1s p\u00f3sham v\u00ed syat\u00e2m n\u00e2\u00b4bhim asm\u00e9.\nNote 3. With the last P\u00e2da compare II, 40, 4, quoted in note 2, and II, 3, 9. prag\u00e2\u00b4m Tv\u00e1sht\u00e2 v\u00ed syatu n\u00e2\u00b4bhim asm\u00e9; see also Taittir\u00eeya Samhit\u00e2 IV, I, 8, 3. Tvashtri is generally considered as giving sons; see H. O., Religion des Veda, 234.\nNote 1. Comp. I, 13, 11, note 1.\nNote 2. The second hemistich recurs I, 105, 14.\nNote 3. See Neisser, Zur Vedischen Verballehre, 22.\nNote 1. The text has 'for V\u00e2yu,' not 'for (the god) accompanied by V\u00e2yu.' But there is no doubt that p\u00fbshanv\u00e1te, &c., refers to Indra, and that V\u00e2yu is named merely as a companion of Indra.","title":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46): I, 142. \u00c2pr\u00ee Hymn","type":"page"}