Brihaddevata 5.7

5.7

tatsāvitre dve tu ko vaiśvadevaṃ mahī dyāvāpṛthivīyaṃ paraṃ tu yat .
kṣetrasyeti tisrastu kṣaitrapatyāḥ śunaṃ vāhāḥ śunadevī tvṛguttarā .. 7..

7. There are two hymns addressed to Savitr (beginning) 'That' (tat: iv. 53, 54); 'Who?' (kah: iv. 55) is addressed to the Allgods, while that which follows (viz.) 'The mighty' (mahi: iv. 56) is addressed to Heaven and Earth. But (in the hymn) 'Of the field' (ksetrasya: iv. 57) the (first) three (stanzas) are addressed to the Lord of the Field, while the next stanza, 'Prosperously the steers' (sunam vahah: iv. 57. 4), has Suna as its god. param tu yat A, param yat m', tatparam ca, tadyatparam ca b, camuttaram ca fk - tisrah ksetrapatyah br, tisrah ksetrapatya fk, caitrapatyastrcastu hdm'r (kse ° r m): the reading of the Sarvanukramani has decided me in favour of the reading adopted in the text (cp. above,

168 iii. 111). The which has dropped out after fa(making the pada one syllable short) I have restored from the reading trcastu . - sunadevi hm' 1, sunadaiva brr°r', sunam daiva fk.- tvaguttara m', °tyrguttara f 1 2 1 17, triguttara k, prguttarah b vrguttama 1, tvaguttama hd. 8. Suna here is Vayu, Sira is Surya: (for) they say that Suna and Sira are Vayu and Surya. Yaska, however, considered Sunasira to be Indra a, (and) Sakapuni thinks those two (Suna and Sira) to be Surya and Indra b. - yaska indram tu hm`r, indram yaskastu bfs. - suryendrau tau hr, suryendro tu, indrasuryo b, imdrasuyo, imdrasuyom k. a His view, in Nirukta ix. 40, agrees not with this, but with the explanation given in 8ª: sunasirau: Suno vayuh (su ety antarikse), sira adityah saranat. Yaska does not quote Sakapuni's view. This sloka is quoted by Sadgurusisya on Rg-veda iv. 57. b " 9. Now these two, Suna and Sira, are praised in the fifth (stanza iv. 57. 5), while there are two (6, 7), the sixth and the seventh (stanzas), to Sita. The verse (pada) Prosperously our shares' (sunam nah phalah iv. 57. 8) praises agriculture; 'Prosperously the ploughers' (sunam kinasah: iv. 57. 8), men who live by agriculture. dve tu sitayai sasthi 4, dvau tu sitayai sasthi m', sitayai sasthi tvatha bfkr (si ° b, si ° f, si0 k ). 10. Parjanya is here praised in the third verse (iv. 57. 8), while the seer pronounced the last (verse) with a desire of wealth (iv. 57. 8). Or (it may be said) the whole hymn praises agriculture. From the ocean' (samudrat: iv. 58) belongs to the Middle Agni. C - stutah pade 'tra parjanyas Am', sunam pade parjanyam bfkr. - 0yam tyastvrsir m', °yem tyastvrsir hd, antyastrsir r 3, antyantvrsir 1' 141, cinrsih bfr, tinrsih k.- dhanakamo hmir", dharmakamo rrr", krsikamo bfkr. - krsim va hrbfk, krsivad 12 14 10. 11. As mentioned in a Brahmana it is indicated as addressed either to the Sun (aditya) or to Agni; for it appears as an Ajya hymn a; or some speak of it as (in) praise of Waters or (in) praise of Ghee, (or) as addressed to Cows, (or) to Surya b. ameyam fkr±r'r', hyameyam Am' b. - vapyajyasuktam m' r' r' r', vaprajyasuktam hdr", yadva- jyasuktam, yadyadyasuktam, yajyasvasuktam b. - hi drstam Amb, pradistam fkr', ' . - gavyameke -