The Arctic Home in the Vedas c8.19

c8.19

The first quarter of the verse is rather difficult. The words are *kiyâti â yat samayâ bhavâti*, and Sâyaṇa, whom Wilson follows, understands *samayâ* to mean ‘near.’ Prof. Max Muller translates *samayâ* (Gr. Omos, Lat. Simul,) by ‘together,’ ‘at once’; while Roth, Grassmann and Aufrecht take *samayâ bhavâti* as one expression meaning ‘that which intervenes between the two.’² This has given rise to three different translations of the verse :—