--- In [email protected], "mark robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
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> Cardemaister,
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> Thank-you for the alternate translation. Is it yours?
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Oh no, I forgot to mention it's Ralph T.H. Griffith's:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rvi09.htm



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> The original you kindly supplied looks different than the
> original supplied on the site. For example, you supplied:
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> vR^iShaa\'NaM\` vR^iSha\'bhir ya\`taM su\`nvanti\` soma\`m 
> adri\'bhiH  |\\
>   du\`hanti\` shakma\'naa\` payaH\'  || \EN{9}{034}{03} \\
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> But the site supplied:
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> v&;a?[</ v&;?i-r� y/t< su/NviNt/ saem/m! Ai�?i-> , 
> �/hiNt/ zKm?na/ py>? . 9 -034 -03

It seems to me that's encoded devanaagarii (the script Sanskrit 
usually is written in) , or something.
 I guess you need to have some Sanskrit font to see it in DN.


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> Of course I know nothing of Sanskrit, so maybe they are the same.
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> Anyway, I suppose that's less important than my main interest in
> the real meaning - What the heck do you suppose they were
> crushing / pressing? Yes, I know it was Soma, but how does that
> jive with something that MMY says is internal? So, then my
> question becomes � If Soma was external, what was its identity?

In my understanding no-one knows for sure. For instance fly agaric
(amanita muscaria) has been suggested, but I don't think that's
very likely.


> 
> -Mark





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