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39 and emendation without any traceable sense to guide us is of no avail. The combination bhuvaneṣṭhā́ (p. -ne॰sthā́) is noted under Prāt. ii. 94. In the pada-text of b is noted from our mss. no other reading than úpa: atiṣṭhe; but S PP. gives úpa: ā॰tiṣṭhe, and reports no various readings; as ā॰tiṣṭhe (without any accent) is an impossible form ⌊''Skt. Gr. §1083 a⌋ this is perhaps simply a blunder in his text; the comm., with a minority of SPP's mss., has -tiṣṭhet.''

5. Around all beings I went, the web (tántu) of righteousness stretched out for beholding, where the gods, having attained immortality (amṛ́ta) bestirred themselves (?īraya-) upon the same place of union (yóni).

1. The heavenly Gandharva, who is lord of being (bhúvana), the only one to receive homage, to be praised (īḍ) among the clans (víç)—thee being such I ban (yu) with incantation, O heavenly god; homage be to thee; in the heaven is thy station.

2. Touching the sky, worshipful, sun-skinned, deprecator of the seizure (háras) of the gods—gracious shall be the Gandharva, who is lord of being, the only one to receive homage, very propitious.