--- In [email protected], cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Rgveda I 164 is called "asya-vaamasya -suukta", or stuff, > because of the first words of it. "Rco akSare" are the first > words of the 39th verse of that suukta. 38th is also rather > "interesting" as are many other ones in that hymn. > Goes like this in modified Harvard-Kyoto -translitteration: > > 38 apaaG praaG eti svadhayaa ghRbhiito '[a]martyo martyena sayoniH | > taa shashvantaa viSuuciinaa viyantaa nyanyaM cikyurna nicikyuranyam || >
pada-paatha: apaaG (pronounce: apaang); praaG (praang); eti; svadhayaa; ghRbhiitaH; amartyaH; martyena; sayoniH; taa (must be [Vedic?] nominative *dual*, obviously refers to the two brothers...); shashvantaa; viSuuciinaa; viyantaa; ni; anyam; cikyuH(?); na; ni; cikyuH(?); anyam Ralph Griffith's translation: Back ,(apaang) forward (praang) goes he(eti) grasped (gRbhiitaH) by strength inherent (svadhayaa), the Immortal (amartyaH) born the brother (sa-yoniH; literally something like 'same-wombed') of the mortal (martyena). Ceaseless (shashvantaa) they [two] (taa) move in opposite directions (vishuuciinaa viyantaa; literally: [they are] everywhere(?) moving...oh, shucks...well, let's go on...: men mark (ni...cikyuH: [they] "ni-mark") the one (anyam: the other), they fail to mark (na ni cikyuH: [they] not "ni-mark") the other (anyam). To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
