{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe46/sbe46124.htm","path":"hin/sbe46/sbe46124.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe46/sbe46124.htm","text":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46), by Hermann Oldenberg [1897]\n1 1. Whatever good, O Agni, best acquirer of gain, thou thinkest (fit), praise thou 2 that (good), which is celebrated in songs, among the gods as our share.\n2. They, Agni, who do not set into motion for thee (prayers or offerings), when grown full of mighty strength 1, turn away to encounter the hatred and the tricks of him who follows another (i. e. a wrong) law 2.\n3. We choose thee as our Hotri, Agni, the giver of skill; offering delight (to thee) we call with our prayer (thee), the foremost at the sacrifices.\n4. So that we, O strong one, (may be ready) for thy favour, for wealth and Rita, O highly wise one: thus may we day by day rejoice 1 with cows and rejoice with heroes.\nThe Rishi is Prayasvanta \u00c2treya (cf. verse 3. pr\u00e1yasvantah hav\u00e2mahe), the metre Anushtubh, verse 4 Pa\u1e45kti.\u2014Verse 1 = VS. XIX, 64.\nNote 1. Professor Max M\u00fcller proposes to read v\u00e2gas\u00e2\u00b4tamam, as in IX, 98, 1. Pischel (Vedische Studien, I, 200) translates this verse: 'O Agni, das r\u00fchmenswerte Gut, das du f\u00fcr geeignet h\u00e4ltst, das preise du zugleich mit unsern Liedern (no g\u00eerbh\u00edr y\u00fagam) den G\u00f6ttern an (diis vendita).' He explains: 'Agni soll den G\u00f6ttern Gut bringen and sie\nveranlassen, es den Menschen f\u00fcr die Lieder zu schenken.' I cannot follow Pischel's theory about the identity of the roots pan and pan (comp. about pan the quotations collected by Bartholomae, Indogermanische Forschungen, III, 180); and the paraphrase 'diis vendita' seems inadmissible to me. I differ from Pischel, besides, in the interpretation of y\u00fagam; cf. ray\u00edm \u2026 y\u00fagam, IV, 37, 5; r\u00e2y\u00e2\u00b4 yug\u00e2\u00b4, VII, 43, 5; 95, 4.\nNote 2. Neisser, Bezzenberger's Beitr\u00e4ge, XX, 55, explains panay\u00e2 as standing for panay\u00e2ma, and compares V, 56, 2 (?).\nNote 1. On vridh with the genitive, compare Delbr\u00fcck; Altindische Syntax, p. 158; Macdonell, Journal Roy. As. Soc., 1893, p. 433. Grassmann's conjecture vr\u00edddh\u00e2(v) is a failure.\nNote 2. With the second hemistich compare VS. XXXVIII, 20 (Satapatha Br\u00e2hmana XIV, 3, 1, 9); T\u00c2r. IV, 11, 4 (cf. V, 9, 7).\nNote 1. Sy\u00e2ma stands, as the accent shows, in an independent clause. Prof. Max M\u00fcller proposes to change the accent: 'So that we \u2026 may for thy favour, for wealth and Rita day by day rejoice with cows.'","title":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46): V, 20","type":"page"}