Footnote: How strange it is to find Shri Sayanacharya interpreting पितर: used in this mantras as हिन्सकाः (पीयर्तिहिन्स) कर्मा।तस्मैतद-रूपम्। about which Prof. Wilson says "By Pitris, in this place, the Scholiast says--Asuras are intended, as derived from the root Pi-to injure, prijatic-hinsa Karma. Griffith after translating 'your father, enemies of Gods, were smitted down' remarks in foot note. "The meaning is obscure. Sayana explains Pitara as asuras or demons, deriving the word from a root pi to injure. Prof. Grass man reads conjectively "Piyavo- scorners" instead of the unsuitable pitara..." (Hymns the Rigveda translated by Griffith Vol. 1 p. 628). All this is nothing but the wild imagination of the same scholars of the east and west. Rishi Dayanand Sarasvati takes पितरः as पालकाः which is the well-known meaning of the word. His is clear and straight forward meaning, in which there is no obscurity.