Vedic Hymns, Part II (SBE46), by Hermann Oldenberg [1897]
1. Let us press Soma for Gâtavedas 1. May he burn down the property of the niggard 2. May he, Agni, bring us across all troubles, across all difficulties, as across a stream with a boat.
The Rishi is Kasyapa Mârîka. Metre, Trishtubh.—Verse 1 = TÂ. X, 1.
Note 1. This is one of the very rare passages in which Agni standing alone and not accompanied by Indra or the Maruts &c. is mentioned as drinking Soma. It seems as if this verse were not composed for the regular Soma sacrifice, but for a special occasion.
Note 2. Cf. Delbrück, Syntakt. Forschungen, I, 112.