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i. 25- BR. conjecture "following the shaving, i.e: glimmering." Ppp. reads in a dhūmas for çocis. The name at the beginning of c is of quite uncertain form; the ms. readings are hrūḍu, hrūdru, hruḍu, hūḍu, rūḍu, hrudbhu, hruḍu, rūḍhu ⌊hrūḍhu⌋; SPP. adopts in his text the same form as we, and, it is to be hoped, on the authority of his oral reciters, which in such a case must be better than mss.; Ppp. has (in both verses) huḍu, which is a word occurring also elsewhere, and meaning "ram"; the comm. reads rūḍhu, explaining it as = rohaka or puruṣaçarīre utpādaka 'producing in the human body.'

⌊Henry, Journal Asiatique, 9. x. 513, suggests that the problematic word may be connected with the Assyrian ḥuraçu and the Hebrew ḥarūç, and so go back to a proto-Semitic *ḥarūḍu, 'gold.'⌋. Halévy, however. l.c., 9. xi. 320 ff., suggests that it may be rather a Sanskritization of χλωρός, 'greenish-yellow,' and compares the relations of vāiḍūrya, Prākrit veḷurya (veruliya) βηρύλλιον. Cf. further, Barth, Revue de l'histoire des religions, xxxix. 26.⌋

3. If heating (çoká) or if scorching (abhiçoká), or if thou art son of king Varuṇa, hrúḍu by name etc. etc.

4. Homage to the cold fever, homage I pay to the fierce (rūrá) heat (çocís); to the one that befalls on every other day, on both days, to the third-day fever be homage.

1. Far be that from us—may [your] missile (hetí) be, O gods; far the bolt (áçman) which ye hurl.

2. Be yon Rāti ('liberality') a companion (sákhi) for us; a companion [be] Indra, Bhaga, Savitar of wondrous favors.