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सायण-भाष्यम्

मो षु वरुण’ इति पञ्चर्चमेकोनविंशं सूक्तं वारुणम् । अन्त्या जगती शिष्टाश्चतस्रो गायत्र्यः । तथा चानुक्रान्तं – मो षु पञ्च गायत्रं जगत्यन्तम् ’ इति । गतो विनियोगः ॥

Jamison Brereton

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Varuṇa
Vasiṣṭha Maitrāvaruṇi
5 verses: gāyatrī 1–4, jagatī 5
As Oldenberg remarks, although this hymn does not break the sequence of verse numbers and meter, it appears to be an addition to this Varuṇa collection. It is in another meter, and Vasiṣṭha does not appear by name within it. Moreover, while the other three hymns of this collection refer to Vasiṣṭha’s unhappy state, this hymn more explicitly concerns an illness afflicting the speaker. It is an illness so serious that it could bring the speaker to the mr̥nmáyaṃ gr̥hám “house of clay” (vs. 1), the earth, in which the dead are buried.
According to both indigenous commentators and contemporary schol ars, the illness especially associated with Varuṇa is dropsy, on which see Zysk (1985: 59–61). The reference in verse 2 to the speaker as “inflated like a water-skin” could point to dropsy, as could prasphuránn iva, here translated “seeming to kick,” if it is interpreted as stumbling or as describing the water-skin as quiver ing. But the evidence is not very firm.
The last verse, which is in a different meter, brings the hymn closer to the preced ing three hymns, since it lays the blame for the speaker’s condition on a violation of the commandments of Varuṇa, his dhármā “ordinances.”

01 मो षु - गायत्री

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मो᳓ षु᳓ वरुण मृन्म᳓यं
गृहं᳓ राजन्न् अहं᳓ गमम्
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02 यदेमि प्रस्फुरन्निव - गायत्री

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य᳓द् ए᳓मि प्रस्फुर᳓न्न् इव
दृ᳓तिर् न᳓ ध्मातो᳓ अद्रिवः
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03 क्रत्वः समह - गायत्री

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क्र᳓त्वः समह दीन᳓ता
प्रतीपं᳓ जगमा शुचे
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04 अपां मध्ये - गायत्री

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अपा᳓म् म᳓ध्ये तस्थिवां᳓सं
तृ᳓ष्णाविदज् जरिता᳓रम्
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05 यत्किं चेदम् - जगती

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य᳓त् किं᳓ चेदं᳓ वरुण दै᳓व्ये+++(←देव+यञ्)+++ ज᳓ने+++(देवेषु)+++,
ऽभिद्रोहं᳓ मनुष्या᳙श् च᳓रामसि।
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मा᳓ नस् त᳓स्माद् ए᳓नसो देव रीरिषः ॥