Brihaddevata 4.131_2

4.131_2

sa taṃ ka imamityasyāṃ vikrīṇannṛṣisaṃsadi .
svayaṃ tenāmituṣṭāva nakirindreti gautamaḥ .. 132 ..

iv. 30 purpose (tena)b praised (him with the stanza), 'None, O Indra' (nakir indra: iv. 30. 1); 3 Cp. Sayana on Rg-veda iv. 24. 9; Sieg, Sagenstoffe, pp. 90-96. svayam tena ° hm`r ै, svayameva ° krr', svayameva (vyabhi0 ) f, svayanevya ° b, smayanneva ° r. b I take tena to refer to vikrinan; Dr. Sieg, however (who translates 132-134), Sagenstoffe, p. 95, takes it with the pratika of iv. 30, tena suktena, 'with the whole hymn iv. 30'; against this is the fact that the hymn as a whole has already been mentioned (127) as one in praise of Indra, that the author in the present passage otherwise refers to single stanzas, and that it is contrary to the style of the Brihaddevata to refer with tena to a following pratika instead of saying nakir indrety anena or etena. 134. and in the (stanza) 'What! then art thou' (kim ad utasi: iv. 30. 7) he halfway (ardhe) a dispelled his wrath. Then the seer his (Indra's) form and heroic deeds, his valiant exploits, manyumardhe Am', manyumadhye bfkr', mamyum madhye r. -- dhairyakaryani hm'r, viryakaryani fbk, dhairyayajyani r', dhairyayastrayani ... - tanyrsih hm 1, tanrsih bfkrm, carisu r'14 r°. - The end of the varga is here marked by 2 in hm1b, not in k. a The reading madhye is probably an explanation of ardhe. 135. and his various deeds proclaimed to Aditi. 'I' (aham: iv. 26) is self-praise in a triplet: for there is praise (in it) as if of him (Indra)a. - samstavas hdm'13, °samstavas bfkr' r' - stutirivasya hih 17, stutirrtasya hi hdr, stuticivasya hi b, stutivisasya hi fkr". * That is, the seer praises himself as if he were Indra; cp. Sarvanukramani: indram ivatmanam rsis tustavendro vatmanam. Cp. Geldner, Vedische Studien, iii, p. 160, note 3, and Sieg, Sagenstoffe, pp. 87 and 95, note 3 136. With the following nine stanzas (beginning) 'Before all birds this' (pra su sa vibhyah: iv. 26. 4-7; 27. 1-5) there is praise of the eagle. In the hymn of five stanzas 'Thee' (tva: iv. 28) Indra is praised together with Soma. tveti br, tvena m', tveva hr'r 4, tve fk.- somenendrah stutah saha bkr, saumenedra stutah saha f, somendrau ca stutah saha hdr', somendrau ca saha stutau m', somendrah samstutah saha 14. 137, 138. Kraustuki regards this praise to be chiefly addressed to Soma; while with the triplet 'Even of the Sky' (divas cid: iv. 30. 6-11) the teacher Sakatayana considered the middle Dawn