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163 offers, with two or three mss. that follow him, and which SPP. accordingly adopts ⌊kārçanás⌋; our edition gives karç-; Ppp. has kārṣiṇas. Ppp. also has simply ca for our whole d (after balāya). The comm. reads asti instead of asthi in a. The verse (11 + 11: 14 + 11 + 8 = 55) lacks a syllable of being a full çakvarī. ⌊Reject either āyuṣe or varcase and the meter is good.—In c, te 'for thee' (comm., as gen.), is, I suppose, virtually = 'on thee.'⌋

The second anuvāka, ending with this hymn, contains 5 hymns and 39 verses; the Anukr. quotation is nava ca.

1. The draft-ox sustains earth and sky; the draft-ox sustains the wide atmosphere; the draft-ox sustains the six wide directions; the draft-ox hath entered into all existence.

2. The draft-ox [is] Indra; he looks out from (for?) the cattle; triple ways the mighty one (çakrá) measures out (traverses?); yielding (duh) the past (? bhūtá), the future, existing things (bhúvana), he goes upon (car) all the courses (vratá) of the gods.

Ppp. reads in a indrasya for indraḥ sa, and in c it adds sam before bhūtam, and has bhuvanaṁ instead of -nā. The comm. has in b the curious reading stiyān for trayā́n, and hence we lose his guess as to what may be meant by the "triple ways." He takes paçubhyas in a first as dative, and then as ablative. He understands bhúvanā as virtually "present"; more probably it has its usual sense of 'existences,' and the two preceding adjectives qualify it distributively, or are in apposition with it: "all existing