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177 2. Whoso stands, goes about, and whoso goes crookedly (vañc), whoso goes about hiddenly, who defiantly (? pratán̄kam)—what two, sitting down together, talk, king Varuṇa, as third, knows that.

3. Both this earth is king Varuṇa's, and yonder great sky with distant margins (-ánta); also the two oceans are Varuṇa's paunches; also in this petty water is he hidden.

4. Also whoso should creep far off beyond the sky, he should not be released from king Varuṇa; from the sky his spies go forth hither; thousand-eyed, they look over the earth.

5. All this king Varuna beholds (vi-cakṣ)—what is between the two firmaments (ródasī), what beyond; numbered of him are the winkings of people; as a gambler the dice, [so] does he fix (? ni-mi) these things.

6. What fetters (pā́ça) of thine, O Varuṇa, seven by seven, stand triply relaxed (vi-si), shining—let them all bind him that speaks untruth; whoso is truth-speaking, let them let him go.

Our sinántu, at beginning of c, is our emendation, obviously necessary; a few mss. (including our Bp.E.H.) have çinántu, and the rest chin- (our P.M. dhin-, doubtless