Footnote: Rishi Dayananda has pointed out in his commentary that there is change of person and case etc. but that is just to make clear, lest ignorant or ordinary persons may not labor under the delusion that there is prayer addressed to the inanimate earth. But as in the Vedas, as well as in all poetry, inanimate objects are addressed as if they had life. अचेतनान्यपि चेतनवत् स्तूयन्ते (निरुक्ते अ० ७ ) It is not quite necessary to suppose there is or change of person, case, gender etc. As a matter of fact, there are many such changes (व्यत्यय) pointed out in Rishi Dayananda's commentary just for the sake of clarification. 2. Rishi Dayananda himself has given another interpretation to this in Yajurveda 36.13. where the meaning is with regard to the wife, taking the apparent meaning of earth as a simile. There the meaning is as follows- O wife, calm like the earth, just as the earth free from thorns and pits, the resting place for all durable substances, is comfortable to us, so should you be. Just as wide earth gives us place for dwelling, so should you delight affording, give us domestic happiness. To quote Rishi Dayananda's own words- हे पृथिवीव वर्तमाने स्त्रि । यथाऽनृक्षरा निवेशनी पृथिवी नो भवति तथा त्वं भव सा समथा न शर्म यच्छतु तथा स्योना त्वं नः शर्म यच्छ । It is clear that in this case, there is no need of any change in person, case or gender etc.