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Ma\"N"D"Ala Iv, Hymn 14.
Ash\"T"Aka Iii, Adhyya 5, Varga 14.
1. Agni "G"tavedas, the god, has looked on the dawns that shine with all their might 1. Come hither, O Nsatyas 2, wide-ruling (gods), on your chariot to this our sacrifice.
2. The god Savit"ri" has sent his shine upward, producing light for the whole world. The Sun, shining with his rays, has filled Heaven and Earth and the air.
3. The red one 1, carrying hither (bliss) 2, has come with her light, the great, brilliant one, shining with her rays. Ushas, the goddess, awakening (all beings) to welfare, goes along on her well-yoked chariot.
4. May those chariots and horses, most ready to drive, drive you 1 hither at the break of dawn. For these Somas are for you that you may drink the honey-drink 2. Rejoice, O manly ones, at this sacrifice.
5 Iv, 13, 5.
Notes.
The same "Ri"shi and metre.--No verse of this hymn occurs in the other Sa"m"hits. On the parallelism in which IV, 14 stands to IV, 13, see the introductory note on Iv, 13.
Verse 1.
Note 1. On mhobhi"h", see vol. xxxii, p. 196 seq. (i, 165, 5, note 3). Here the word refers to the powerful light of
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the dawn, not of Agni, cf. Vi, 64, 2. sha"h" devi r"k"amn mhobhi"h".
Note 2. On the mention of the Nsatyas (A"s"vins) in this connection, compare the introductory note on Iv, 13.
Verse 3.
Note 1. The Dawn as before.
Note 2. That an object like 'bliss' is to be supplied, is shown by such passages as I, 48, 9. sha"h" vhant bhri asmbhyam sabhagam; I, 92, 3. (the Dawns) sham vhant"h" suk"r"te sudnave; I, 113, 15. (the Dawn) vhant pshy vry"n"i.
Verse 4.
Note 1. The text has the dual of the pronoun. The A"s"vins are addressed.
Note 2. It is the peculiar character of the A"s"vins that they drink mdhu; see Hillebrandt, Vedische Mythologie, vol. i, p. 239 seq. H. O., Religion des Veda, p. 208, note 4; p. 367, note 2.
"Vedic Hymns, Part Ii (sbe46)\", by Hermann Oldenberg [1897],
p. 358
Ma\"N"D"Ala Iv, Hymn 14.
Ash\"T"Aka Iii, Adhyya 5, Varga 14.
1. Agni "G"tavedas, the god, has looked on the dawns that shine with all their might 1. Come hither, O Nsatyas 2, wide-ruling (gods), on your chariot to this our sacrifice.
2. The god Savit"ri" has sent his shine upward, producing light for the whole world. The Sun, shining with his rays, has filled Heaven and Earth and the air.
3. The red one 1, carrying hither (bliss) 2, has come with her light, the great, brilliant one, shining with her rays. Ushas, the goddess, awakening (all beings) to welfare, goes along on her well-yoked chariot.
4. May those chariots and horses, most ready to drive, drive you 1 hither at the break of dawn. For these Somas are for you that you may drink the honey-drink 2. Rejoice, O manly ones, at this sacrifice.
5 Iv, 13, 5.
Notes.
The same "Ri"shi and metre.--No verse of this hymn occurs in the other Sa"m"hits. On the parallelism in which IV, 14 stands to IV, 13, see the introductory note on Iv, 13.
Verse 1.
Note 1. On mhobhi"h", see vol. xxxii, p. 196 seq. (i, 165, 5, note 3). Here the word refers to the powerful light of
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the dawn, not of Agni, cf. Vi, 64, 2. sha"h" devi r"k"amn mhobhi"h".
Note 2. On the mention of the Nsatyas (A"s"vins) in this connection, compare the introductory note on Iv, 13.
Verse 3.
Note 1. The Dawn as before.
Note 2. That an object like 'bliss' is to be supplied, is shown by such passages as I, 48, 9. sha"h" vhant bhri asmbhyam sabhagam; I, 92, 3. (the Dawns) sham vhant"h" suk"r"te sudnave; I, 113, 15. (the Dawn) vhant pshy vry"n"i.
Verse 4.
Note 1. The text has the dual of the pronoun. The A"s"vins are addressed.
Note 2. It is the peculiar character of the A"s"vins that they drink mdhu; see Hillebrandt, Vedische Mythologie, vol. i, p. 239 seq. H. O., Religion des Veda, p. 208, note 4; p. 367, note 2.
