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iii. 11- hundred springs; a hundred to thee [may] Indra, Agni, Savitar, Brihaspati [give]; with an oblation of a hundred life-times have I taken him.

5. Enter in, O breath-and-expiration, as two draft-oxen a pen (vrajá); let the other deaths go away (ví), which they call the remaining hundred.

6. Be ye just here, O breath-and-expiration; go ye not away from here; carry his body, his limbs, unto old age again.

7. Unto old age do I commit thee; unto old age do I shake thee down (ni-dhū); may old age, excellent, conduct thee; let the other deaths go away, which they call the remaining hundred.

8. Old age hath curbed (abhi-dhā) thee, as it were a cow, an ox, with a rope; the death that curbed thee, when born, with easy fetter—that Brihaspati released for thee, with the (two) hands of truth.

The first eight verses are found in Pāipp., but only 1-5, 7 together, in iii., vs. 6 being in xx., and vs. 8 in xvii. ⌊More or less correspondent vss. recur at MP. ii. 15. 3 ff. and