Part 26 - Details regarding the deities of Rigveda VIII.101

124. All this is proclaimed in the stanza 'Friend Visnu' (sakhe visno: viii. 100. 12). But the first four stanzas of the hymn (beginning) Specially' (rdhak: viii. 101. 1-4) are addressed to Mitra-Varuna; proktam B 9, sarva A. - rsinoktam sakhetyrci 4, sakhe visnaviti tvrci B, sakhe vikuviti yfa 1, aa fawfafa afa 1, fawfala ve qfa 1, ad faut zfa qa 8. 125. and the three versesa of Forth' (pra: 5 abc) are to Mitrab, Aryaman, and Varuna, the fourth (5) is to all the Adityas: such is (here) the praise. va padas , padasca 4, pado (°rya ) m', padastva bfk - carya ° rhd, (ca) arya0 r'r±rr ै, (°do ) rya ° m', (tva ) arya ° bfk - trayascaturthah hdbk, trayascaryah f, na yascaturthah 1, yascaturthah m. & b - * The MS. evidence favours the singular (padas ca), but this with the following trayah is very forced: 'pra is a verse to Mitra, (and one) to Aryaman, (and one) to Varuna, (altogether) three.' The dative mitraya is probably used beside the genitives aryamnah and varunasya because the stanza begins with pra mitraya. According to the Sarvanukramani, Mitra and Varuna only. The name of Aryaman occurs in 5. s 126. But the following stanza (6) has the Adityas as its deities. 'Hither to me' (a me: 7, 8) is a couplet addressed to the Asvins; there are (then) two addressed to Vayu (9, 10), two to Surya (11, 12), one to Usas (13), or (the seer here praises) the light a of the sun and moon. - para tvaditya ° hm`r, pargaditya ' b, baramaditya ° 1. - saurye m', saurya (wrong sandhi for saurye ) hrs B, sauryo (dual of sauri ) s, cottare (saurye ) r. usasya bfs, udyasya k, ausasya r' r'17, usasa hdri, saurye (ausasi ) r. prabham va r bfr 2017, prabha vam hd, prabha vams k, prabha vas m' (suryaprabhastutiva S ). - candrasuryayoh hmir B, (ausasi ) tvrgiyam para r. - * Another instance of the elliptical use of the accusative (prabham) governed by stauti to be supplied: cp. note on 116 ab. 127. 'Generations truly' (praja ha: 14) is addressed to Pavamana, while with the two stanzas 'The mother' (mata: 15, 16) the Cow is praised. 'Thou, O Agni, great' (tvam agne brhat: 'Thou,

ix. 67 viii. 102, 103) are two hymns addressed to Agni. But in a stanza of the latter (pare) is praised Agni, 128. the Middle, together with the Maruts and Rudras, (viz. in) Come, O Agni' (agne yahi: viii. 103. 14). B Or in the first hemistich, 'Generations truly' (praja ha: viii. 101. 14), Agni is here named, in B only. r, m'fk, b.-128 ed and 129 are not found in A or m¹, but B 129. in the third verse (pada), the Sun (aditya), and in the fourth the Middle (Agni) is praised a: for so it has been explained in the esoteric (rahasya) Aitareya Brahmanab also. vyakhyatam 1, vyakhyata bfk.- The end of the varga is here marked by a The Sarvanukramani makes no reference to this alternative of B. in the Aitareya Aranyaka, ii. I.