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iii. 8- illustrated by c, where the desirable alteration of váçeṣu to váçe, and the abbreviation of hṛ́dayāni to the equivalent -yā (both suggested by Weber) would leave a good triṣṭubh pāda; there is no jagatī character to any part of the verse. ⌊The combination -mānareta looks as if it had blundered in from the end of b.⌋

1. Of the karçápha, of the viçaphá, heaven [is] father, earth mother: as, O gods, ye have inflicted (abhi-kṛ), so do ye remove (apa-kṛ) again.

2. Without claspers they held fast (dhāraya); that was so done by Manu; I make the víṣkandha impotent, like a castrater of bulls.

3. On a reddish string a khṛ́gala—that the pious (vedhás) bind on; let the binders (?) make impotent the flowing (?), puffing (?) kābavá.

5. Wherewith, O flowing ones, ye go about (car), like gods with Asura-magic (-māyā), like the ape, spoiler of dogs, and with the binder (?) of the kābavá.