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33 (Ppp. has rodhasī); perhaps we ought to read bhū́mes 'out of the earth.' The comm., with a disregard of the accent which is habitual with him, takes ródasī and its epithet as vocatives, and then supplies dyāus, vocative ⌊JAOS. xi. 66⌋‎, in b to help make a dual subject for the verb! For d Ppp. has vidurassevavartasī. ⌊For c, of. ÇB. vi. 6. 33.⌋‎

4. The one hath covered all; this rests upon the other; both to the heaven and to the all-possessing earth have I paid homage.

1. Of golden color, clean (çúci), purifying, in whom [was] born Savitar, in whom Agni; who, of beauteous color, assumed Agni as embryo—let those waters be weal, pleasant to us.

2. In the midst of whom goes king Varuṇa, looking down at the truth-and-falsehood of men; who, of beauteous color, etc. etc.