Brihaddevata 4.87.2

4.87.2

hatvā dīrghatamāstaṃ tu pāpena mahatā vṛtama .
ātmāṅgānyanudaccaiva tatrodonmohnito bhṛśam .. 23 ..
aṅgadeśasamīpe tu taṃ nadyaḥ samudakṣipan .
aṅgarājagṛhe yuktām uśijaṃ putrakāmyayā .. 24 ..
rājñā ca prahitāṃ dāsīṃ bhaktāṃ matvā mahātapāḥ .
janayāmāsa cotthāya kakṣīvatpramukhānṛṣīn .. 25 ..
tuṣṭāva caiva sūktābhyām abodhītyaśvināvṛṣiḥ .
preti dyāvāpṛthivyau tu parābhyāmetaduttaram .. 26 ..
kimārbhavaṃ pare mā no medhyasyāśvasya saṃstavaḥ .
īrmāntāsa iti tvasyāṃ nīyamānaṃ praśaṃsati .. 27 ..
svayūthyāstasya caivātra bahavaḥ saṃstutā hayāḥ .
niyuktāścāniyuktāśca prasaṅgādanukīrtitāḥ .. 28 ..
saṃjñaptavadasaṃjñaptaṃ bhaviṣyaṃ cāha bhūtavat .
tasya māṃsasya sūnasya carūṇāṃ haviṣastathā .. 29 ..
vāso'dhivāsasoścātra yadviśasyaṃ ca kīrtitam .
gātrasya śūlasthūṇānāṃ svadhiteśca prakīrtanam .. 30 . .
chāgasya kīrtanaṃ cātra indrāpūṣṇoḥ saha stutiḥ .
sūktaṃ yadasyavāmīyaṃ vaiśvadevaṃ taducyate .. 31 ..
pravādā vidhidhāstatra devānāṃ cātra kīrtanam .
sūkte'syarci parokṣoktā vakṣyāmi bhrātarastrayaḥ .. 32 ..
agnistu vāmaḥ palito vāyurbhrātā tu madhyamaḥ .
ghṛtapṛṣṭhastṛtīyo'tra sapta vai raśmaya stutāḥ .. 33 ..
parāstu kathayantyagniṃ yathā varṣati pāti ca .
ahorātrāndinānmāsān ṛtūṃśca parivartinaḥ .. 34 ..
pañcadhā ca tridhā caiva ṣoḍhā dvādaśadhaiva ca .
saṃvatsaraṃ cakravacca parābhiḥ kīrtayatyṛṣiḥ .. 35 ..
kṣetrajñānaṃ ca dhenuṃ ca gaurīṃ vācaṃ sarasvatīm .
dharmaṃ pūrvayugīyaṃ ca sādhyāndevagaṇāṃstathā .. 36 ..
vividhāni ca karmāṇi agnivāyuvivasvatām .

i. 156 caitano hm'r (=Rg-veda 1. 158.5), cainato rrr, caita fk, cetano b. upahanat m', apahata fk, apataha b, apaharat n. a - apahanat hdr, Cp. Rg-veda i. 158. 5: siro yad asya traitano vitaksat, svayam dasa uro amsav api gdha. B 23. Now Dirghatamas having (thus) slain him (who had) involved (himself) in great sin, moved his limbs there (in the river), (though) excessively stupefied (unmohita) by the water (uda). - 5 mahata Bn, sahasa m'. - vrtam mr 2 rr'n, vrtam fk, vrtah b. - 0 nyanudaccaiva ' ', ', nyanu- dascaiva fkn, ॰nyanudascaiva b, ॰nyatudamscaiva m'. - tattodomohita b, tatodanmohito r 2 r'1', tatrodomnohiti (rbhrsam ) m ', tatrodonmauhiti (rbhrsam ) fk, na tu danahato n. - This sloka is omitted in hdr, but is found in bfkr2r r 7 m'n. - 24. Now the currents (nadyah) a threw him up in the neighbourhood of the Anga country. B Usij was employed b in the house of the king of Anga. Through desire of obtaining a son, tannapra b, tam nrpam rºr 7 n (g), tatrapra fn (ab), tanayam n, nadyah sarvah hdm 'r (nadyah occurs in RV.i. 158. 5). That : was in the original form of the text seems certain, and that HT: was inserted later to supply the place of syllables which had dropped out (first after J, and then the augment in samudaksipat ) is highly probable - samudacipat fkr'1'n, samudiksipat b (the plural changed to the singular probably owing to the loss of the plural :), samutkhidan hdm'r. The form udaksipan occure again below, iv. 88.- yuktam mr±r°r', yuktom b, yuktam fk, dasim n. - 24°d is wanting in hdr, but is to be found in Bm'n. a Cp. Rg-veda i. 158. 5: na ma garan nadyo matrtamah, the most motherly streams did not swallow me up.' b I have changed this acc. in order to be able to separate this from the following sloka in translation. B 25. the king dispatched (this) slave (to Dirghatamas). The great ascetic observing her to be devoted (to him), after he had come out (of the water), begat (with her) the seer Kaksivat and others. ab Tl☎i m2r2r3r2n, Tlgi bfk.-afzai zidi Haei r2r3r2, Afgai ZIDI HMT m1bfk, ufzai gan ygi n. - matva mahatapah 12-17, matva matapah b, matva matayah f, matva rame taya m', (krtva ) ramanmunih n. - 25 a b not in h dr, but in Bm'n. - janayamasa cotthaya har, so'jijanaddasa saikan bfkrr°r 7 (°kad 12177), sa ca kaksivatam jajne - 25 cd omitted in m1.-The end of the varga is here marked by 4 in hdb, by & in f, not at all in m1k. In hd the varga has only three slokas.

And the seer praised with the two (157, 158) hymns (beginning) 'He is awake' (abodhi: i. 157. 1), the two Asvins: but with the two (159, 160) following (beginning) 'Forth (pra: i. 159. 1), Heaven and Earth. That which comes next to these (etad-uttaram) tustava caiva hm'r, tustava viva bfk, tustaveti va f (sutabhyam ) : 7. vyau tu hmir, •vyau te b, °vyau ta fk, "vya ta rr 7. us' 27. (beginning) 'Why' (kim: i. 161. 1) is addressed to the Rbhus. The two (162, 163) following (beginning) 'Not us (ma nah i. 162. 1) are a laudation of the sacrificial horse. In the (stanza) Full-haunched' (irmantasah: i. 163. 10) he extols the horse as he is being led. " bfkr'r', hm1r. The former is obviously the correct reading, as both 162 and 163 are in praise of the sacrificial steed, and if were read, there would be no reference to 163 as a hymn. 28. And here also (i. 163. 10) the many steeds belonging to his troop (svayuthyah) are praised: both the yoked and unyoked are incidentally (prasangat) mentioned. svayuthyas m'r, sayudhyasa hdbf, sayupyasa k. - tasya m bfr, tatra hd. - 29. He speaks of him (though) not (yet) sacrificed as (already) sacrificed, of (his) future (state) as if past. Of his flesh (mamsa) a, of the basket (suna) b, of the pots (caru) c, and of the oblation (havis) d, - bhavisyam caha bhutavat hm' r' r' r', bhavisyamtam ca bhutavat bfk ( °tat f), havisyam caha sunavah r. - tasya m', tasyan hd, tasmin , tat bfk. - mamsasya sunasya hm'r, saunasya ca mamsasya bfkrºr' (°nasyam r°r 7). - carunam 177, caturni hm' r 3, catusam 1, varunam b, varuna fk.- havisastatha hmI r r, kva visantatha 117, krivivya bfk. a b The form occurring Cp. i. 162. 9: asvasya kravisah; see also 10, 12, 13. in the Rg-veda (i. 162. 13) is sunah; if the reading of hm1r is original, the gender has been changed, possibly because this form was taken as a masc.; but in its two other occurrences in the Rg-veda, the word, being used in the sing., is clearly fem. The reading of B, saunasya ca mamsasya would mean 'flesh collected in the baskets'; cp. Rg-veda i. 161. 10:

i. 164 mamsam..sunaya abhrtam. A's reading sunasya is, however, more in keeping with the style of the present passage, in which every object is otherwise enumerated without an attributive adjective. ° In i. 162. 13, where the form carunam occurs. form havisah occurs in i. 162. 17. a The 30. and of the robe (vasas) and upper covering (adhivasa) a, and of his body (gatra) b which is mentioned as about to be dissected (visasya) c, of the spit (sula) d and the post (sthuna)e, and of the axe (svadhiti) f there is here (atra) laudation. yadvisasyam ca kirtitam hm' r' kr", yadvisasya ca kirttanam [b, yangisasya ca kirttanam ", svadhitesca prakirttanam (by mistake from the next line). - gatrasya mulasthunanam m', gatra- sulasthunanam (no ca) hd, gatrasutyasthusanam ca : "1", gatrascalpasthyusanam ca b, gatrasulpasthu f. The end of the varga is here marked by & in m1bfk, not in hd. a Both vasas and adhivasa occur in i. 162. 16. 0 b The word occurs in the singular Cp. i. 162. 18: gatra... parus-parur in i. 162. 11, and in the plural in 18, 19, 20. .. vi sasta; cp. 19: asvasya visasta, and 20: ma te .. avisasta.. gatrany asina mithu kah. d Cp. i. 162. 11 te.. abhi sulam nihatasya. The word sthuna does not occur in the hymn, but its equivalent asva-yupa is used in i. 162. 6, and svaru in 9. word svadhiti occurs in i. 162. 9, 18, 20.

7. Deities of Rigveda I.164; The three Agnis; The year—31. There is here also mention of the goat (chaga) a (and) praise at the same time of Indra-Pusan b. " The hymn which (begins) Of this benignant' (asya vamasya: i. 164) c is stated to be addressed to the All-gods. chagasya hm'rbfkrº, bhagasya r. - saha stutih m 1, saha srutih h, ca kirtanam fkr' r', fkr2r3, ca prakirtanam b. - caca indra ° ], catrendra ° MSS. - 31 46 is omitted in d, 31 ed in f. ab * The goat is mentioned three times in this hymn, twice as aja (2, 4), and once as chaga (3). b In i. 162. 2 along with the goat. * The term asyavamiyam (suktam) is also used in Rgvidhana ii. 26. 2 and Manu xi. 251. 32. In it are various sayings (pravadah) and here (too) mention of the gods. B In the stanza 'Of this' (asya: i. 164. 1) in the hymn, three brothers a are spoken of in the third person (paroksa)-I will explain (them).

134 tatra b, tvatra r, vatra h d. - catra kirtanam hm' r, canukirtanam b. - 32 ab omitted in fk.- vaksyami bm', vacya fk - catarastrayah m', satarastrayah bfk. The next sloka and the contents of Rg-veda i. 164. I make the emendation certain.-32 cd wanting in hdr. a Another instance of the nom. being loosely used for the acc.; cp. i. 28 and Meyer, Rgvidhana, p. ix. 33. Now the benignant, grey-haired one is Agni, while the middle brother is Vayu. The third here is butter-backed (ghrtaprstha) a (his) seven rays are praised b. bhrata tu hdr, bhra tu m', bhrata ca bfk. - trtiyo'tra hm'1, trtiyoktah r', trtiyoktam bfk.-stutah hm`r, sutah bfk. a Cp. Rg-veda i. 164. 1: trtiyo bhrata ghrtaprsthah, explained by Yaska, Nirukta iv. 26, as the terrestrial Agni: ayam agnih. b The expression saptaputram in Rg-veda i. 164. 1 is explained by Yaska (ibid.) as the seven rays of the sun. 34. But the following (stanzas) tell of Agni, how he rains and protects a; and of days and nights (ahoratra), of days (dina), of months, and of revolving seasons b. pati hm`r, vati bfk, vani rr - ahoratran r', ahoratra hbfk, ahoratra ° m'r.- dinan hm'r°fk, divan b. - rtumsca hm`r, rahusva f, santaharya b, paksamsca ... parivartinah b, parivarttih fk, parivartanam hmir, parikirttanam r' - 34' = vii. 246. a b b Especially in Rg-veda i. 164. 7. The same expressions are used of Surya in vii. 24. b Yaska, Nirukta iv. 27, explains trinabhi (Rg-veda i. 164. 2) as referring to the seasons, dvadasara (RV.i. 164.11) as referring to the months, sapta satani vimsatis ca (ibid.) as referring to the days and nights in the year. Yaska does not, in his comment, use the expression dina, which, however, is here probably meant as an explanation of the three hundred and sixty spokes in the wheel of the year (i. 164. 48). 35. With the following (stanzas) a the seer celebrates the year (samvatsara) like a wheel (as) fivefold, and threefold, sixfold and twelvefold b; - ca tridha br±r", ca trbha, trividha hr. - dvadasadhaiva ca hm`r, dvadasa vapi ca bfk, dvadasadhapi va 15. • 35 ab has the following form in Sayana : tridha dvadasadha sodha pancadha saptadha tatha . - kirttayatyrsih bs, kirttayannrsih hr (fo h), kirttayatrsih f. - The end of the varga is here marked by in hdbfk, not in m1. aThat is, Rg-veda i. 164. 12-16. b This sloka is quoted by Sayana on Atharva-veda xix. 53. 2, being introduced with the words tatha ca saunako'py aha.

i. 164 8. Account of the contents of Rg-veda i. 164 (continued). 36. and knowledge of the soul (ksetra-jnana) a and the cow (dhenu)b, the buffalo (gauri) c, Vacd, Sarasvatie, and the ordinance (dharma) of former ages, the Sadhyas, and the troops of the gods f; - ksetrajnanam hdrb, ksetram jnanamh ', ksatrajnanam m' fkr. - gaurim hdr, gauri ml bfk - dharma purvayugiyam ca m'r, dharma purvayugau pamca hdr', dharmapurvayuganam ca bfkr' r' - sadhyan hdm'r, sadhyam b, sadhya fk.- devaganamsa hdm' r, devagana f, devaranam b, devarana k. aThis appears to be an abbreviated expression for ksetrajna-jnana; see below, iv. 40 and cp. ksetra-jna in the St. Petersburg Dictionary. The reference in the text is to i. 164. 16 ff., e. g. 18: manah kuto adhi prajatam? b Referred to by this name in i. 164. 26. • i. 164. 49. fi. 164. 50: devah ... dharmani prathamani.. purve sadhyah. ° i. 164. 41. d i. 164. 45. 37. and the various activities of Agni, Vayu, and Vivasvat (the Sun) a, and the mighty power (vibhuti) of Agni and Vayu in the stationary and moving world b; karmani ami ° bfk, karmani tvagni o hdr. - jagati bfkr' r', jagati hm' r. - sthastu0 br±r', sthasru ° fk, sthana ° hdm'r. b a In i. 164. 44: vapata ekah. . visvam eko abhi caste. . dhrajir ekasya dadrse na rupam. It is not clear what passage is here regarded as describing the powers of the two gods, Agni and Vayu, in contrast with those of the three, Agni, Vayu, and Vivasvat, in i. 164. 44; perhaps 47 is meant. 38. the taking (haranam) a of water (var) by the (Sun's) rays and its discharge again b. There is here also glorification of the activities of Parjanya, Agnic, and Vivasvat d (the Sun). rasmibhirviro bfkr±, rasmibhirviram r', rasmibhiscaiva hm`r. - visarga m' r, visargah hd, visarga b, visarpa fkr 2. - catra hdm' br, casya fkr 2 rr 7. a Cp. above, i. 68 b In i. 164. 51 ab: samanam etad udakam uc caity ava cahabhih. and ii. 19. (C) In i. 164. 51 cd. d In i. 164. 52. Prana is (meant 39. Now mother and son are Vac (Speech) and Prana (Breath): the mother is Vac, the son is the other (Prana). by) 'Sarasvata, while Vac they call Sarasvati b. k.-39 d= ii. 51 d. vakpranau hm`r, vakyanau bfk - prano hrrrrm', prana bfr, prana k. - 392 =