Book II.
⌊The second book is made up mostly of hymns of 5 verses each. It contains 22 such hymns, but also five hymns (namely, 3, 4, 14, 15, and 32) of 6 verses each, five hymns (namely, 5, 17, 27, 29, and 33) of 7 verses each, and four hymns (namely, 10, 12, 24, and 36) of 8 verses each. Compare page 1. The possibilities of critical reduction to the norm are well illustrated by hymns 10, 12, 14, 27; see, for example, the critical notes to ii. 10. 2.
The whole book has been translated by Weber in the Monatsberichte der Kön. Akad. der Wiss. zu Berlin, June, 1870, pages 462-524. This translation was reprinted, with only slight changes, in Indische Studien, vol. xiii. (1873), pages 129-216. The following references to Weber have to do with the reprint.⌋
1. Mystic.
[Vena.—brahmātmadāivatam. trāiṣṭubham: 3. jagatī.]
Found in Pāipp. ii., and parts of it in other texts, as pointed out under the several verses. ⌊Von Schroeder gives what may be called a Kaṭha-recension of nearly all of it in his Tübinger Kaṭha-hss., pp. 88, 89.⌋ Used by Kāuç. (37. 3) in addressing various articles out of whose behavior afterward signs of success or the contrary, and the like oracular responses, are to be drawn (the comm. gives them in a more expanded detail). And Vāit. (29. 14) applies vs. 3 in the upavasatha rite of the agnicayana.
Translated: Weber, xiii. 129; Ludwig, p. 393; Scherman, Philosophische Hymnen, p. 82; Deussen, Geschichte, i.1 253; Griffith, i. 41.
1 . Vena (the longing one?) saw that which is highest in secret, where everything becomes of one form; this the spotted one (pṛ́çni) milked [when] born; the heaven-(svàr-)knowing troops (vrá) have shouted at it.
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