Page:Atharva-Veda samhita volume 2.djvu/500

xix. 36- the ḍhvā of rūḍhvā and līḍhvā to -ḍḍhvā). Ppp. is corrupt, giving durṇās tris sarvās triḍhvā apa rakṣāṅsy apa kramīm. The second half of vs. 4 and the first half of vs. 5 are wanting in Ppp.

6. With the çatávāra I ward off (vāraya-) a hundred of the ill-named ones (f.), a hundred of the Gandharvas-and-Apsarases, and a hundred of the doglike ones (f.).

1. This splendor hath come, given by Agni, brightness (bhárga), glory, power, force, vigor (vájas), strength; and the heroisms that are thirty-three—those let Agni give forth to me.

2. Splendor set thou in my body (tanū́), power, force, vigor, strength; unto Indra-like action, unto heroism, unto [life] of a hundred autumns, do I accept thee.

The majority of mss. again accent balám. In a, SPP. has the better reading tanvā̀m, with the comm. and a single ms. (accidental i"). ⌊The transition-form ought probably to be oxytone, tanvā́m: see my Noun-Inflection, p. 412, near top.⌋ ⌊With our second half-verse cf. the second half of the verse just cited from TB.MS.AÇS.: apart from two or three misprints, it reads dīrghāyutvā́ya çatáçāradāya práti gṛhṇāmi (MS. gṛbhṇāmi: AÇS. gṛbhnāmi, cf. Grammar §195 a) mahaté vīryàya (MS. -tá indriyā́ya)—a confused blending of tags: cf . xi. 1. 3, 7, and so on.⌋ ⌊The comm. takes a, b as