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5. Since I shall bind thee [on] for spoiling, I shall spoil the kābavá; ye shall go up with curses, like swift chariots.

6. A hundred and one víṣkandhas [are] distributed over the earth; thee have they first taken up, of them the víṣkandha-spoiling amulet.

1. She first shone out; she became a milch-cow at Yama's; let her, rich in milk, yield (duh) to us each further summer (? sámā).

The verse occurs also in several other texts: in TS. (iv. 3. 11$5$), MS. (ii. 13. 10), K. (xxxix. 10), PGS. (iii. 3. 5), and MB. (ii. 2. 1; 8. 1); and its second half is RV. iv. 57. 7 c, d, and MB. i. 8. 8 c, d; ii. 2. 17 c, d, and also found below as 17. 4 c, d. The version of K. agrees (Weber) throughout with ours; TS. has, for a, yā́ prathamā́