{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe46/sbe46131.htm","path":"hin/sbe46/sbe46131.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe46/sbe46131.htm","text":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46), by Hermann Oldenberg [1897]\n1. The good lord has presented me with two oxen together with a car, the most brilliant Asura among the liberal givers 1. Tryaruna, the son of Trivrishan, O Agni Vaisv\u00e2nara 2, has distinguished himself by (his gift of) ten thousand (cows?) 3.\n2. To him who gives me one hundred 1 and twenty cows and two fallow steeds, harnessed and well-yoked, to Tryaruna grant thy protection, Agni Vaisv\u00e2nara, who art highly praised and grown strong.\n3. Thus, O Agni, desiring thy favour 1, Trasadasyu 2 (sings) for the ninth time 3 to thee the youngest (god)\u2014Tryaruna who responds to my, the strong-born's, many hymns with (the gift of) a yoked (chariot) 4\u2014\n4 1. Who may thus announce me 2 to Asvamedha the liberal (prince): may he give to him who with his verse strives for gain; may he give to him who lives in the Rita for (acquiring) wisdom 3\u2014\n5. Asvamedha whose gifts, a hundred speckled bulls, delight me like Soma juices with threefold admixture 1.\n6. Indra-Agni! Bestow on Asvamedha, the giver of a hundred (bulls), abundance of heroes and mighty royal power, like the never-ageing Sun in heaven.\nThe Rishis are Tryaruna Traivrishna, Trasadasyu Paurukutsya, and Asvamedha Bh\u00e2rata, or, according to others, Atri alone. The metre is Trishtubh in verses 1\u20133, Anushtubh in verses 4\u20136.\nThe position of this S\u00fbkta shows that it is a later addition to the original collection.\nNote 1. With Delbr\u00fcck, Grassmann, von Bradke (Dy\u00e2us Asura, p. 67) I read magh\u00f3n\u00e2m instead of magh\u00f3nah. Cf. III, 3, 4. \u00e1surah vipah-k\u00edt\u00e2m.\nNote 2. On the invocation of Agni in D\u00e2nastutis, comp. H. O., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenl\u00e4ndischen Gesellschaft, XXXIX, 87.\nNote 3. Geldner (Ved. Studien, I, 268) is right in observing: 'Hier ist unter sahasr\u00e2ni eine bestimmte Geldoder Wertsumme zu verstehen,' and in adding that it is not necessary that such a sum consisted in cows.\nNote 1. On sat\u00e2\u00b4, 'one hundred,' compare Delbr\u00fcck. Altindische Syntax, p. 82.\nNote 1. Cf. X, 148, 3. sumat\u00edm kak\u00e2n\u00e1h.\nNote 2. That is, very probably, a descendant of Trasadasyu.\nNote 3. I do not adopt S\u00e2yana's explanation navamam = navatam\u00e2m, though I do not know what the number 'nine' means here. Ludwig is absolutely right in observing 'dass man eben hier, wo es sich um specielle concrete, uns aber sonst her nicht bekannte verh\u00e4ltnisse und ereignisse handelt, eben sich bescheiden muss, nichts\nzu wissen.'\u2014Prof. Max M\u00fcller believes that navishth\u00e2ya makes navamam for navatamam excusable: 'to the newest god the newest song.'\nNote 4. S\u00e2yana supplies to yuktena, not rathena, but manas\u00e2.\nNote 1. I do not think that Ludwig is right in believing that with verse 4 a new, independent section begins.\u2014Comp. on this verse, vol. xxxii, p. 304 (II, 34, 7, note 3).\nNote 2. Me may be accusative, as it frequently is. Should it be a dative, we should have to translate: 'Who may tell Asvamedha for my sake.'\nNote 3. Medh\u00e2\u00b4m can scarcely depend on d\u00e1dat; wisdom is not a gift which liberal princes may bestow on singers.\nNote 1. Of milk, curds, and barley. See Hillebrandt, Vedische Mythologie, I, p. 209.","title":"Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46): V, 27","type":"page"}