Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religion and Institutions v5.c49.46

v5.c49.46

⁴⁰³ The word so rendered is *bārhataiḥ*. In the Lexicon of Böhtlingk and Roth, *s.v.*, its sense is said to be doubtful. Professor Weber (Ind. St. v. 178 ff. where these verses, with the rest of the hymn in which they occur, is translated and annotated) renders it “lofty ones” (Erhabene). Langlois makes it “overseers.” The moon is mentioned again in verses 18 and 19. In R.V. viii. 71, 8, Soma sparkling in the cups is compared to the moon shining on the waters (*yo apsu chandramāḥ iva somas' chamūshu dadṛiśe | piba id asya tvam īśishe*). See Professor Benfey’s note on R.V. i. 84, 15, in his Orient and Occident, ii. 246.