History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c81.26

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¹¹ न यस्येन्द्रो वरुणो न मित्रो व्रतमर्यमा न मिनन्ति रुद्रः । नारातयस्तमिह स्वस्ति हुवे देव सवितार नमोभि.॥ ऋ II. 38 9; न ता मिनन्ति मायिनो न धीरा व्रता देवानाम प्रथमा भुवानि। न रोदसी अदृहा वेद्याभिर्न पर्वता निनमे तस्थिवांस ॥ ऋ. III 56. 1. अस्सम्भ्राट् द्याममुरो विश्ववेदा अमिमीत परिमाण पृथिव्याः। आसीदद्विश्वा भुवनानि सम्राड् विश्वेत्तानि (*Continued from last page*) वरुणस्य व्रतानि॥ VIII. 42 1. the word *vrata* occurs five times in II 38 (verses 2, 3, 6, 7, 9) and should be construed according to the general rules of interpretation in the same sense in all verses of the same hymn at least Prof. Apte admits (on p 476) that the meaning ‘ordinances’ would be appropriate in Ṛg. II. 38. 7 (नकिरस्य तानि व्रता देवस्य सवितुर्मिनन्ति) and accepts that meaning in that verse, but on II. 38. 9 (p. 468) his obsession about the original meaning being ‘tracks’ leads him to say “that in that verse the word vrata means ‘Savitṛ's fixed movements in the heavens.”