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127 emendation to ā́yan, and so does SPP. in his pada-text; but in saṁhitā (perhaps by an oversight) he reads āyan, unaccented; the comm. has āyan (accent doubtful): cf. iv. 14. 1 c, where the mss. again read āyam for āyan in the same phrase. Ppp. has a very different second half-verse: yena devā jyotiṣā āyām udāyan tena mā ’gne varcasā saṁ sṛje ’ha. The comm. makes apsu in b mean either "[creatures] in the waters," or else "[Yakshas, Gandharvas, etc.] in the atmosphere." The metrical definition of the Anukr. is mechanically correct ⌊52-2 = 50⌋ if we count 13 syllables in b ⌊and combine varcasāgne⌋!

4. What great splendor becomes thine, O Jātavedas, from the offering; how great splendor there is of the sun, and of the ásura-like elephant—so great splendor let the (two) Açvins, lotus-wreathed, assign unto me.

5. As far as the four directions, as far as the eye reaches (sam-aç), let so great force (indriyá) come together, that elephant-splendor, in me.

6. Since the elephant has become the superior (atiṣṭhā́vant) of the comfortable (? suṣád) wild beasts, with his fortune [and] splendor do I pour (sic) upon myself.

1. By what thou hast become barren (vehát), that we make disappear from thee; that now we set down elsewhere, far away from (ápa) thee.

2. Unto thy womb let a fœtus come, a male one, as an arrow to a quiver; let a hero be born unto thee here, a ten-months' son.

This verse and the two following occur in ÇGS. (i. 19. 6), and this one without