30 (31). For successful anointing.
[Bhṛgvan̈giras.—dyāvāpṛthivīyam uta pratipādoktadevatākam. bārkatam.]
Not found in Pāipp. Used by Kāuç. (54. 6) in the godāna ceremony, to accompany the anointing of the youth's eyes. Vāit. (10. 5) makes it accompany, in the paçubandha, the anointing of the sacrificial post.
Translated: Henry, 12, 65; Griffith, i. 342.
1. Well anointed for me have heaven-and-earth, well anointed hath Mitra here made [it]; well anointed for me may Brahmaṇaspati, well anointed may Savitar make [it].
The comm. supplies akṣiyugaṁ yūpaṁ vā for svāktam to agree with. The meter is plainly anuṣṭubh.
31 (32). To Indra: for aid.
[Bhṛgvan̄giras.—āindram. bkuriktriṣṭubh.]
Like the preceding, not found in Pāipp. Used by Kāuç. (48. 37), with hymns 34 and 108, and with vii. 59 ⌊or vi. 37. 3 (but see note to vii. 59)⌋, in a witchcraft ceremony against enemies, while laying on the fire fuel from a tree struck by lightning.
Translated: Henry, 12, 66; Griffith, i. 342.
1. O Indra, with abundant best possible aids, O generous hero, quicken us today; whoever hates us, may he fall downward; and whom we hate, him let breath quit.
The verse is RV. iii. 53. 21, which has for sole variant yācchreṣṭhā́bhis ⌊which the meter alone would suggest as an emendation⌋ (p. yāt॰çre-) in b. The combination sás padīṣṭa is prescribed by Prāt. ii. 58. The comm. treats yāvat and çreṣṭhābhis as independent words.
32 (33). Homage to Soma (?).
[Brahman.—āyuṣyam. ānuṣṭubham.]
Found also (except d) in Pāipp. xx. It is, without variant, RV. ix. 67. 29 (which also lacks d). Used by Kāuç. twice (58. 3, 11) in rites for length of life (on account of the concluding pāda), with iii. 31, iv. 13, and other passages, in the ceremony of initiation of a Vedic student. It is reckoned (54. 11, note) to the āyuṣya gaṇa.
Translated: by RV. translators; and Henry, 12, 66; Griffith, i. 342.