{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe46/sbe46119.htm","path":"hin/sbe46/sbe46119.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe46/sbe46119.htm","text":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46), by Hermann Oldenberg [1897]\n1. I bring a prayer to the worshipper, the renowned sage, the glorious, ancient one. Agni is the highly gracious Asura, taking his seat in ghrita, the holder of wealth, supporting goods.\n2. By Rita they have supported the supporting Rita, near the powerful (performer) 1 of sacrifice, in highest heaven, the men who sit 2 on the supporting support of the sky, and who with born (men) attained to the unborn.\n3. Dispelling anguish 1 they spread out for the ancient one 2 his bodies 3, mighty vital power, difficult to overcome. May he, the new-born, traverse the spaces. They have stood round him as round an angry lion.\n4. When thou carriest, spreading out, man after man like a mother, for their nourishment and for their sight, when thou growest old 1 assuming life after life, thou goest around by thyself in manifold shapes.\n5. May gain protect now the boundaries of thy strength, the wide, firmly supporting milkstream 1 of wealth, O god! Putting down thy foot in secret like a thief 2, thou hast enlightened and freed Atri for the sake of wealth mightily 3.\nThe Rishi is Dharuna \u00c2\u1e45girasa (cf. dhar\u00fanah v\u00e1svah agn\u00edh, verse 1; rit\u00e1m dhar\u00fanam, div\u00e1h dh\u00e1rman dhar\u00fane, verse 2; d\u00f3gham dhar\u00fanam, verse 5); the metre, Trishtubh.\u2014No verse of this hymn occurs in the other Samhit\u00e2s.\nNote 1. It may be asked whether s\u00e2k\u00e1, beside its meaning 'the powerful (helper),' may also mean 'the power.' This would suit very well, V, 30, 10. s\u00e1m t\u00e2\u00b4h (scil. g\u00e2\u00b4h) \u00edndrah asrigat asya s\u00e2ka\u00edh; VI, 19, 4. t\u00e1m vah \u00edndram kat\u00ednam asya s\u00e2ka\u00edh ih\u00e1 n\u00fbn\u00e1m v\u00e2gay\u00e1ntah huvema. The translation then would be: 'by the power of sacrifice.' B\u00f6htlingk-Roth conjecture s\u00e2\u00b4ke.\nNote 2. I believe that sed\u00fashah stands for the nominative, cf. dev\u00e2\u00b4h \u00e1bibhyushah, I, 11, 5; S. B. E. XXXII, p. 28. This sed\u00fashah led on to a second accusative standing for the nominative, nr\u00ee\u00b4n.\u2014The men sitting on the support of the sky seem to be the forefathers who have established the universal laws, the A\u1e45giras.\nNote 1. I consider amhoy\u00favah as nom. plur. masc., but it may also be gen. sing. masc., or acc. plur. fem., as an epithet either of Agni or of his tan\u1e7dah.\nNote 2. The ancient one (p\u00fbrvy\u00e1) seems to be Agni (cf. verse i).\nNote 3. Cf. VI, 46, 12. y\u00e1tra s\u00fb\u00b4r\u00e2sah tan\u1e7dah vitanvat\u00e9.\nNote 1. I think, like Ludwig, that garase should be accented.\nNote 1. These are accusatives.\u2014Cf. on this passage, Pischel, Vedische Studien, I, 39 seq.\nNote 2. Cf. H. O., Prolegomena, p. 73.\nNote 3. Cf. VI, 1, 2. mah\u00e1h r\u00e2y\u00e9 kit\u00e1yantah.\u2014See Geldner, Ved. Studien, I, 268.","title":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46): V, 15","type":"page"}