Coutribuiious fnnn flic Jaiiuiii/ya Bralniiaija. 189 



2. tvastaraiii patnisu saiii3ajanti : On the four patnlsaihyajas ((^"-B. 

 i. 9. 2. 5-13) see Hillebrandt, Das altindische Neu- und Vollmonds- 

 opfer, 1879, p. 151 ff., especially p. 154 for Tvastr's patnlsaiiiyaja. — 

 In a similar wa}^, Tvastr and the Wives of the gods are connected 

 in the animal sacrifice to Agni and Soma, (^B. iii. 7. 2. 8, ' There- 

 upon they set up the Wives' stake (patniyupa) . . . There they seize 

 (and bindi the victim for Tvastr,' and the scholiast to Katy. QS. viii. 

 8. 41 on this passage adds that the victim is for Tvastr patnlvant. 



3. saiiipavitum : This is apparentl}' the onl}' occurrence of an in- 

 finitive of the root pu, and Witney, in the manuscript of the Roots 

 and Verb-forms, queries whether it may not possibly be an early 

 instance of a causative infinitive with loss of causative sign (Whit- 

 ney, Gram mar, § 1051, c). 



4. This is very closely parallel to CB. i. 6. 3. 8 ; TS. ii. 4. 12. 1 ; 

 5. 2. 1. — In the text of the JB. the real point of Tvastr"s error is 

 obscured by the lack of accent on indracatru.^ What Tvastr ' in- 

 tended to say was that it should grow strong so as to be "the foe 

 (sla3'erj of Indra," and the compovmd should therefore have been 

 accented on the second member, viz. indracatru (the foe of Indra) ; but 

 by accenting it on the first member, indracatru, he made it " having 

 Indra for his foe (sla3'erj,'' ' Eggeling, SEE., xii, p. 165, note 2. 



5. vrtro 'bhavat : The same punning connexion of Vrtra with the 

 Y\rt (pravartayat) occurs also in CB. i. 6. 3. 9; TS. ii. 5. 2. 1, while 

 TS. ii. 4. 12. 2 puns with Vvr. 



5. abhisaiiibabhuva : I have adopted Eggelings rendering of this 

 compound which is also used in CB. i. 6. 3. 8 ; TS. ii. 4. 12. 2 ; 

 5. 2. 2 ; and MS. ii. 4. 3 (p. 40, 8). Caland, Altindische Zanberei 

 (Verhandel. d. Kon. Akad. van Wetensch. te Amsterdam. Afd. 

 Letterk. N.R. Deel X, no. 1) 1908, p. 127 renders it by : ' bemachtigte 

 er sich auch des Agni und des Soma.' 



5. agnisomau : On the part of Agni and Soma in the Vrtra-battle 

 see Hillel^randt, Vcd. Myth., Ill, p. 234-236. 



6. Parallel to CB. i. 6. 3. 11, tasmad u ha sme 'sumatram eva 

 tir3'ari vardhata isumatraih pran ; TS. ii. 4. 12. 2 = 5. 2. 2, sa isu- 

 matram-isumatraiii visvanfi avardhata ; MS. ii. 4. 3 (p. 40, 10) sa va 

 isumatram eva 'hna tir3'ariri avardhate 'sumatram an vail ; Kath. xii. 3 

 (p. 165, 12) vrtro 'har-ahar isumatram urdhvo 'vardhate 'sumatram 

 tir3'an. — But I have not succeeded in emending the corrupt text. 



6. udardat : This makeshift emendation is based on CB. v. 3. 4, 

 5 and 6, sa 3'ah [scil. urmih] pran (and prat3'arin) udardati. 



' See below. JB. ii. 155. 9 



