Brihaddevata 7.137

7.137

adhoreti tṛce tasyāḥ samiheti dvayordvayoḥ .
ā naḥ prajāpater aindrī cāntyā bṛhaspateḥ .. 137 ..

x. 85 With the following (stanzas, the seer) utters prayers for the two both separately and together; - - paraya m', parayas bfkr' - 0siscasastre hdr, •siscasaste m', 'sirasaste b, •sisa saste f, °sisah sastre kr". - tabhyam b, tvabhyam 1, tasam 12, tabhyah hdmr. - sahaiva ca hdm'r, saha kvacit bfkr". f, B 137. in the triplet 'Having no evil' (aghora-: x. 85. 44-46) for her (alone), in 'Together' (sam: 47) and 'Here' (iha: 42) respectively for both. 'Here for us' (a nah: 43) is to Prajapati; and 'Her here' (imam: 45) is addressed to Indra a; the last (47) is to Brhaspati b. This sloka is found in bfkr2 m2 only. The MSS. have the first seven syllables of the second line in common, viz. :: but m1fkr2 complete it with the corresponding part of 138, viz. •manasca yatharupam visesatah (which makes the first pada end in the middle of a word, and gives the second two syllables too many); b alone completes it differently, viz. (:. The variations of the MSS. are: premanasca rupam visesatah m ', premanasca yatharupam visesatah fk (°sesah f), premanasca yatharupam visesatah r 2. - prema ° I take to be the first syllable of the preceding prajapateh repeated by a clerical error and afterwards combined with the pratika HTH.-The end of the varga is here marked by in b, not in f. b The emendation imam, pratika of 45, and aindri seem probable, as Indra is invoked in that stanza. I have made the best I could of the last pada from the reading found in one (b) incorrect MS. alone. Antya brhaspateh can only be correct if the khila of one stanza beginning dhruva (which comes between Rg-veda x. 85 and 86 and which forms the last stanza of the longer khila of six stanzas, printed in Aufrecht, p. 682) was regarded by the author of the Brihaddevata as the last stanza of x. 85. Cp. Meyer, Rgvidhana, p. xxii. 29. Remarks on the Surya hymn (concluded). 138. Now these wedding formulas are recited for men also, being connected with the priests (artvijah) a and with the institutor of the rite (yajamanah) according to their respective form (and) their peculiarity (visesa). - - nigadyante hdr, nimajyante b. - nrnamapi hdr, nrnamiha b. - artvijya hdm'r, prartvijya b. - yajimanasca b, yajamanasca mr, yajamanasca hd. - This sloka is omitted in fk excepting the end, faqa:, which, in all the MSS. (m1fkr2) but b, has been substituted for the corresponding part of 137; cp. critical note on 137, and observe that m1 (which has these syllables here also) as well as fk has the plural termination manah there. a I have corrected artvijya of the MSS. to artvija, as the former word could only be a neuter noun (' office of priest ') while an adjective is necessary to correspond with