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iii. 29- emend to çitipad-avi-devatyam or else as above?—Weber entitles the hymn "Abfindung mit dem Zoll im Jenseits."⌋

Translated: Ludwig, p. 375; Weber, xvii. 302; Griffith, i. 124.

1. What the kings share among themselves—the sixteenth of what is offered-and-bestowed—yon assessors (sabhāsád) of Yama: from that the white-footed sheep, given [as] ancestral offering (svadhā́), releases.

2. All desires (kā́ma) it fulfils, arising (ā-bhū), coming forth (pra-bhū), becoming (bhū); [as] fulfiller of designs, the white-footed sheep, being given, is not exhausted (upa-das).

3. He who gives a white-footed sheep commensurate (sámmita) with [his] world, he ascends unto the firmament, where a tax is not paid (kṛ) by a weak man for a stronger.

4. The white-footed sheep, accompanied with five cakes, commensurate with [his] world, the giver lives upon, [as] unexhausted in the world of the Fathers.