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INDIAN SHIPPING

mentions merchants whose field of activity knows no bounds, who go everywhere in pursuit of gain, and frequent every part of the sea. The fourth passage (VII. 88. 3 and 4) alludes to a voyage undertaken by Vaśiṣtha and Varuṅa in a ship skilfully fitted out, and their "undulating happily in the prosperous swing." The fifth, which is the most interesting passage (I. 116. 3), mentions a naval expedition on which Tugra the Ṛishi king sent his son Bhujyu against some of his enemies in the distant islands; Bhujyu, however, is shipwrecked by a storm, with all his followers, on the ocean, "where there is no support, no rest for the foot or the hand," from which he is rescued by the twin brethren, the Asvins, in their hundred-oared galley.[1]

  1. The five passages are:—

    वेदा यी वीनां पदमन्तरिक्षेण पततां। वेद नाबः समुद्रियः॥

    (I. 25. 7.)

    उवासोषा उच्छाच्च नु देवी जीरा रथानां।
    ये अस्या आचरणेषु दध्रिरे समुद्रे न श्रवस्यवः॥

    (I. 48. 3.)

    तं गूर्तयो नेमन्निषः परीणसः समुद्रं न संचरणे सनिष्यवः।
    पतिं दक्षस्य विदथस्य नू सहो गिरिं न वेना अधिरोह तेजसा॥

    (I. 56. 2.)

    आ यद्रुहाव वरुणश्च नावं प्र यत् समुद्रमीरयाव मध्यं।
    अधियदपां स्नुभिश्चराव प्र प्रेंख ईंखयावहै शुभे कं॥
    वशिष्ठंह वरुणो नाव्याधादृषिं चकार स्वपा महोभिः।
    स्तोतारं विप्रः सुदिन त्वे अह्नां षान्नु द्यावस्ततनन्यादुषासः॥

    (VII. 88. 3 & 4.)

    तुग्रो ह भुज्युमश्विनोदमेघे रयिं न कश्चिन्ममृवाँ अवाहाः।
    तमूहथु र्नौभिरात्मन्वतीभिरन्तरिक्षप्रुद्भिरपोदकाभिः॥

    (I. 116. 3.)

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