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ncss to some of the Atharva hymns, and are evidently added to the two 

 preceding hymns on account of the identity of the suhject. They are 

 neither in the Padapatha and Anakramanika nor with Sayana. I quote 

 them here to furnish an example of this later formal kind of poetry. 

 1 . — bhadran vada dakshinato, bhadram uttarato vada I 



bhadran purastan no vada, bhadran paschat kapingalail 

 2. — bhadran vada putrair bhadran vada griheshu eha | 



bhadran asmakan vada bhadran no abhayan vadan 

 3. — bhadran adhastan no vada bhadram uparishtan no vadai 



bhadran bhadran na avada bhadran na : sarvato vada 1 1 

 4. — asapatnan purastan na: sivan dakshinatas kridhi | 



abhayan satatan paschad bhadram uttarato grihe 1 1 

 5. — yauvanani mahayasi jigyusham iva dundubhi : I 



sakuntaka pradakshinan satapatrabhi no vada l 

 Yaska cites the first Rig of this Siikta (Nir. IX. 5), and expresslv 

 ascribes it to Gritsamada ; he has, however, the various reading Kapin- 

 jala. We observe, that what has been said about the absemet of various 

 readings, does by no means apply to these additions ; to which the 

 following quotation bears a further evidence.* Mand. VII. anuv. 6. 

 at the conclusion of the hymn above alluded to, which is addressed to 

 the frogs, we find a verse not enumerated in the Anukramanika, and 

 also omitted in the Padapatha and in Sayana, which differs even in 

 metre from the hymn to which it is added. In most of the MSS. it 

 runs thus : 



upaplavada, manduki, varsham avada taduri I 



madhye hradasya plavaswa vigrihya satura : pada :f 

 I have compared for this passage seven MSS., viz. those of Paris, 

 Nos. 131, 2135, 1691, and No. 2379, of the E. I. II, and two MSS. from 

 Oxford (without numbers.) With the exception of No. 2379, E. J. H., 

 all of them give this verse. No. 1,621, E. I. II., and one of the Oxford 

 MSS. mark it as Parisishtam (omitted) which is the common way 

 of introducing an interpolation. It is ascribed by Yaska to Vasishta, 

 and closely follows the first Rig of that hymn, to which it is also 

 added in the Nirukta. The three MSS. of the Nirukta, compared 



* This passage, however, is only met with at the end of a Sukla, not of a Anuvaka. 

 t Others read : upaplavata, upapravada, manduka, plavasya, paras. The more exact 

 examination of this passage shall be made by me in the Nirutka. 



