Wilson Philological Lectures on Sanskrit and the Derived Languages c6.30

c6.30

1. The use of चित् after यत् is unknown to the later dialect that particle being found joined only to the pronoun किम्. The preposition प्र though connected with मिनीमसि is separated from it by three words. Though the root of this verb is given in the Dhātupāṭha or Pāṇini's list of roots, it has gone out of use. In modern Sanskrit we should use अतिक्रामामः instead. व्रत is not now used in the sense in which it occurs here; though it is connected with it. We should use शासन instead. द्यविद्यवि means here ‘day by day’; in classical Sanskrit the word द्यौ means ‘heaven’ only. The verse may be translated:— “Though we who are like subjects break thy law, day after day, O divine Varuṇa!” Varuṇa is spoken of frequently as a rájan, or king, and men are his subjects, with reference to that attribute of his.