410 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1909. 
1. Sayana explains the rik thus: 
ndra, master of horses named Haris, you brought away 
from the ant-hill the son of the woman Agru, who was being 
eaten by the ants. 
Brought away by Indra he saw the serpent clearly though 
he had been blind before. Then he came out of the ant-hills. 
His limbs that had cut through the ant-hills were unit 
through the favour of Indra. 
2. The Sanskrit explanation in the ‘‘Vedarthayatna’’ is 
the same as Sayana’s, but in the English translation faawa has 
been rendered into ‘“‘Camp.’’ I give the English translation 
below— 
‘« Thou didst bring out from the camp, O master of tawny 
horses, the son of Agru that was being eaten by the ants. The 
blind man [when] brought out saw the serpent. He came out. 
The limbs that broke the cooking-pot were joined again.”’ 
3 _C. Dutt in his Bengali translation has rendered 
fatwa into we, i.c., house. He hasalso taken guf@age in the 
sense of limbs severed by the ants. =o 
4. The late Pandit Dayananda Sarasvati explained the rik 
in an altogether different way. According to him Indra takes 
away one’s uncharitable son as the rivers wash away their 
anks. 
5. Griffiths’ translation is as follows :— 
‘* Lord of Bay Steeds, thou broughtest from the ant-hill the 
unwedded damsel’s son whom ants were eating. 
The blind saw clearly, as he grasped the serpent, rose, 
brake the jar : his joints again united.’’ 
It cannot be said that these translations make much sense. 
For what does “‘a man being eaten by the ants’’ mean? 
Pandit D. S’s explanation is of such a character that we had 
better leave it alone. Then what has the cooking-pot to do 
with the incident ? And if it were the pot that was broken it 
was the broken parts of the pot and not of the limbs of Agrw’s 
son that needed to be reunited. Mr. Dutt removes this absurd- 
ity but by quite arbitrarily rendering gefee into vatfu: Fed. 
M. Williams in his ‘‘ Sanskrit-English Dictionary ’’ explains 
: as ‘‘as fragile as a pot’, which he takes from Boht- 
oo. ‘New Dictionary.’’ This is another arbitrary explana- 
ion. 
Indra Hymn consisting of 11 stanzas, of which it is the ninth. 
