The Arctic Home in the Vedas c8.s1.37

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2. Possessed of songs: Sāyaṇa thus interprets chchandas-vatī; but the Pet. Lex. translates the word by ‘lovely.’ I have followed Sāyaṇa because the A. V. reading chchandas-pakṣhe, ‘having chchandas for the two wings,’ supports Sāyaṇa’s meaning. That the morning atmosphere resounded with the recitation of hymns and songs may be seen, amongst others, from Ṛig. III, 61, 1 and 6. The phrase madye-chchandasaḥ, in verse 6 below, denotes the same idea. But the word chchandas may perhaps be understood to mean ‘shine’ in all these places; Cf. Ṛig. VIII, 7, 36, where the phrase, chchando na sûro archiṣhā is translated by Max Muller to mean “like the shine by the splendour of the sun,” (See S. B. E. Series, Vol. XXXII, pp. 393, 399.)