Tr. To the drinker of the Soma for his pervasion go these Soma-juices pressed out and purified, mixed with curds.
ime these; sutāḥ obtained; somāsaḥ Soma-juices; sutapāvne to Indra the recipient of the Soma pressing; yanti go. Why? vitaye for his pervasion (for the birth of Indra in the sacrificer, for his spread or for his advent; the root veti having the sense of movement, pervasion, etc. In the inner sacrifice, the movement of the gods means the coming towards the sacrificer, pervasion thereat or birth); of what kind are the Soma-juices ? sucayaḥ bright (purified, cleansed, hence bright); it is to be noted that the root suc has the sense of brightness); again of what kind ? dadhyā siraḥ mixed with curds (āśiḥ the word ending in r, meaning that which destroys, derived from sru with the perfix ā in the sense of afflicting i.e., destroying the blemish). The word-meaning from Sayana's commentary e.g., dadhyā siraḥ, those whose fang (āśiḥ) is curds (dadhi).
Soma-juices of three mixings are well-known in the frauta ritual-gavāsiraḥ, mixed with milk, dadhyāśiraḥ, mixed with curds, yavā siraḥ, mixed with barley. The three substances form the means for dressing. Dressing is mixture. Here the symbolic meaning is to be noted. By milk is indicated its origin-the cows, the rays radiating knowledge; by its transformation, the curds, is indicated the sustaining subtle intellect; by the grains is indicated the dense external knowledge, the gross intelligence. Thus it is only when the luminous knowledge, subtle intellect and the gross knowledge-substance, indicated by the three substances of milk, etc., are ready to be assimilated with the Soma-juices that the flowings of the sap of delight dressed up with milk, etc., purified, are offered to the respective gods, accepted by them, enjoyed by them. By the intake of the sap thus, they grow in the human sacrificer-all this that has been stated before is to be kept in mind.
Thus ends the ninth group in the first Chapter of the first Eighth.
This is the sixth Rik.