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12. Fifa faaw year esarcar xfs | 
fadta Se ataat fa Bag I 2 
Bring wealth on your back by the three streams of T'rita. 
The good sacrificer sings his (Soma’s) praises—: 
ks:—The streams of the Soma liquor ‘have been 
called after T'rita’s name on account of the latter having been 
of the earliest Soma-sacrificers. Three streams are men- 
tioned probably because Jrita’s name is connected with the 
number three. 
(c) Trita offers Soma libation to Indra. 
13. Sey gaa afeafare BI Tayat ae | 
LM “of * 
sqaaqeal 4 aa fragufast BlyTeIs | 1 AA 12° 
Eiyaorsiod by the exhilarating Soma brewed by T'rita, he 
(=Indra) cast down Arbuda. 
Indra whirled his wheel as the sun (does his) and united 
with the Angirases shattered Vala—II, 11-20. 
T'rita is a sacrificer here. He prepares Soma and offers it 
to Indra who strengthened by this invigorating idik slew the 
Das Arbuda. 
It is not clear what was the wheel that Indra wielded. It 
could not be one of the wheels of the sun’s chariot as suggested 
by Griffith. For the word Surya is in the nominative. 
the weapons with which Indra armed himself while fighting 
was probably a wheel. His friends and followers—the Maruts 
—the Dagagva Angirases were so armed 
(d) Trita adores Agni. 
14, gant seifa wary ae feat aqraaui qefa | 
muta afatact 7 7a witfacamt fa feartfa aat | 
wlBrire 
Trita seg with beautiful words the child of the 
see of the earth—the son of waters (= Agni). 
Agni with sib neighs like a charger. The flame-haired 
one (= Agni) is destroying the forests—V, 41-10. 
Remarks :—There are several difficulties in connection with 
this ri‘. “The first is as regards the subject of the first line. 
We have Tita in the pore ae ag! indicating that he is 
the subject. But when we com the verb we find that it 
(=@if4) is in the first person sectuas the nominative faa is 
in the third person. The difficulty has been attempted to 
solve in several ways. Ludwig, Bergaigne and Griffith have 
