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4. May ye be just here; may ye not go away (parás); may an active herdsman (gopā́), lord of prosperity, drive you hither; do ye, with [your] desires, [attend] upon (?) his desire; let all the gods conduct you together hither.

5. We bend together your minds, together your courses (vratá), together your designs; ye yonder who are of discordant courses, we make you bend [them] together here.

6. I seize [your] minds with [my] mind; come ye after my intent with [your] intents; I put your hearts in my control; come with [your] tracks following my motion (yātá).

The comm. reads gṛhnāmi in a, and three or four of SPP's mss. follow him; he also makes in b a compound of anucittebhis. Quite a number of mss. (including our P.M.W.H.s.m.I.) very strangely combine at the end -mānar éta. MB. has a somewhat similar verse at i. 2. 21. How heedless the Anukr. is of metrical irregularity is well