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सायण-भाष्यम्

अस्य प्रत्नाम्’ इति चतुर्ऋचं त्रिंशं सूक्तम् । ऋष्याद्याः पूर्ववत् । ‘ अस्य प्रत्नाम्’ इत्यनुक्रान्तम् । उक्तो विनियोगः ॥

Jamison Brereton

54 (766)
Soma Pavamāna
Avatsāra Kāśyapa
4 verses: gāyatrī
Like the last hymn, this one withholds unambiguous identification until the end of the hymn, while employing suggestive vocabulary in the earlier verses. However, unlike the last hymn, the poet does not try to mislead the audience into supplying

the “wrong” referent. Rather, the hymn is structured as a series of explicit riddles: a form of the pronoun ayám “this one” opens each of the first three verses (and also 2b), and what is predicated of “this one” fits, or can fit, the Soma paradigm. The explicit solution to the riddle is given in the last pāda of verse 3, with the name Soma prominently situated. And the final verse brings the drop (índu) and Indra together in the same way as IX.53.4.

Jamison Brereton Notes

On the riddling structure of this hymn, see published introduction. Each of the first three vss.

begins with a form of ayám, with implicit reference to soma.

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Jamison Brereton Notes

The next 8 hymns, the last ones before the lengthy hymns assembled from tṛcas (IX.61-68) that end the dimeter collection, are attributed to Avatsāra Kāśyapa. All of them contain four vss., and a number of them are structured such that the first three vss. form a unity, with the last vs. stylistically or thematically contrastive or completive. See esp.

IX.53-57. Oldenberg tends to analyze them as a tṛca with Schlussvers, which is strictly accurate, but I think the point is the interplay of 3+1.

01 अस्य प्रत्नामनु - गायत्री

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अस्य᳓ +++(अग्नेः)+++ प्रत्ना᳓म्+++(=पुरातनाम्)+++ अ᳓नु द्यु᳓तं
शुक्रं᳓ दुदुह्रे+++(=दुहन्ति)+++ अ᳓ह्रयः+++(←ह्री)+++ ।
प᳓यः सहस्र-सा᳓म्+++(←दाने)+++ ऋ᳓षिम् +++(अग्निं दुहन्ति)+++ ॥

02 अयं सूर्य - गायत्री

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अयं᳓ सू᳓र्य इवोपदृ᳓ग्
अयं᳓ स᳓रांसि धावति
सप्त᳓ प्रव᳓त आ᳓ दि᳓वम्

03 अयं विश्वानि - गायत्री

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अयं᳓ वि᳓श्वानि तिष्ठति
पुनानो᳓ भु᳓वनोप᳓रि
सो᳓मो देवो᳓ न᳓ सू᳓रियः

04 परि णो - गायत्री

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प᳓रि णो देव᳓वीतये
वा᳓जाँ अर्षसि गो᳓मतः
पुनान᳓ इन्दव् इन्द्रयुः᳓