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Glabrigausapes

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Just encountered a weird one while reading Rigveda 1.58. The line is adressed to the fire-god Agni:
"When thirstily you rage like a bull among the trees, thy way is black, o ageless Agni, wave-bright."
The sense of it is presumably "shining like waves", or "whose waves are shining". The Sanskrit is rušad-ūrmi, from PIE *lewk- L luceo and *Hwel-, cf. R волна.

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Glabrigausapes

Philistine

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There's evidently a (later) idea in Hinduism that there are "6 kinds of waves" in life, with the equivalency:
cold / heat
greed / illusion
hunger / thirst
Maybe significant then that the first word in the verse is तृषु 'thirsty' (neuter adv.).
 
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