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9. For appeasement and weal: to various divinities.

[Brahman (çāntikāmaḥ).—caturdaça. sāumyam. trāiṣṭubham: 1. virāḍ urobṛhatī; 5. 5-p. pathyāpan̄kti; 9 5-p. kakummatī; 12. 3-av. 7-p. aṣṭi; 14. 4-p. saṁkṛti.] ⌊The Anukr. adds: çeṣāḥ (that is vss. 2-4, 6-8, l0-ll, 13) kāṇḍapratīkatvenā* ’nuṣṭubhaḥ. There thus remains not a single vs. that is not excepted from the definition trāiṣṭubham!—The Berlin ms., in its treatment of hymns 9-12, after ekarcam (h. 12), adds: vāsiṣṭham vāiçvadevaṁ çantātīyaṁ trāiṣṭubham (these four words apply well to hymns 10-11) ādyam (hymn 9) mantroktabahudeuatyam. W. follows the London ms.⌋ *⌊At the beginning of its treatment of the kāṇḍa, the Anukr. says brahmakāṇḍam ānuṣṭubham.⌋

The hymn is not found in Pāipp. The comm. finds it used in Pariçista 4. 5 ("muttering this, one should conduct a king to his dwelling-house") and 6. 5 (in the piṣṭarātrikalpa), and in Nakṣ. K. 18, as a hymn belonging to the çānti gaṇa (cf. note to Kāuç. 9. 7).

Translated: Griffith, ii. 268.

1. Appeased (çāntá) be heaven (dyú), appeased be earth, appeased be this wide atmosphere, appeased the waters rich in moisture (udanvánt), appeased be the herbs for us.

⌊With a, b, cf. AGS. ii. 4. 14; PGS. iii. 3. 6; MGS. ii. 8. 6 b.⌋

2. Appeased be the foretokens, appeased for us be the-done-and-undone, appeased both what is and what is to be: be just everything weal for us.

The comm. explains pūrvarūpāṇi first as kāryāpekṣayā kāraṇāvasthāpannāni vastūni, and again as "former births, the fruit of evil deeds." Instead of nas in b it reads me; and it points out that 'the done' means what is done that should not be done, and 'the undone' what was left undone that should have been done—which is far from necessary or certain.

3. This speech that is most exalted, divine, sharpened by bráhman, by which is produced (sṛj) what is terrible—by that be there appeasement for us.

4. Or (?) this mind that is most exalted, sharpened by bráhman, by which is produced what is terrible—by that be there appeasement for us.

All the mss. read in b vām instead of vā, and SPP's text follows them. The comm. makes no mention of either in its exposition of the verse; but its text (so SPP. reports) reads vā, as does ours by emendation.

5. These five senses, with mind as sixth, that are in my heart, sharpened by bráhman, by which is produced what is terrible—by them be there appeasement for us.

The mss. read mána ṣaṣṭhā́ni (p. mánaḥ: ṣaṣṭhā́ni), but SPP., as well as our text, emends to -ṭhāni, and this the comm. also understands. In all the verses 3-5, some of the mss. leave sasṛje unaccented. This verse (10 + 8 + 7: 8 + 8 = 41) is ill defined by the Anukr.

6. Weal for us be Mitra, weal Varuṇa, weal Vishṇu, weal Prajāpati, weal for us Indra, Bṛihaspati, weal for us be Aryaman.