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iv. 37- comm. declares them to be pañca homadravyāṇi 'five articles of oblation'; Ppp. reads prabandhinī in d. Most of our mss. accent apsarásas in e, but SPP. reports only one of his as doing so; both editions read apsarasas. The comm. makes a different division of the material, reckoning the refrain (our e, f) as a verse with our 4 a, b, and omitting the refrain in 4 (much as it treated 34. 5-7 above); SPP. follows the Anukr. throughout (see under the next verse). The comm. reads in f pratibaddhās; prátibuddhā abhūtana is found also as RV. i. 191. 5 d. Ppp. adds between our d and e yatrā marty apsv antaḥ: samudre turūṇyarī turvaçī puṇḑarīka (not followed by an avasāna-sign). The Anukr. definition of the verse ought to read jagatī instead of triṣṭubh. ⌊in the prior draft, W. notes the suggestions concerning avaçvasám given by BR. i. 490 and OB. i. 126 and implying ava = 'away'; but rejects them.⌋

4. Where [are] the açvatthás, the nyagródhas, great trees, with crests: thither go away, ye Apsarases; ye have been recognized.

5. Where [are] your swings, green and whitish; where cymbals [and] lutes sound together—thither go away, ye Apsarases; ye have been recognized.

6. Hither hath come this mighty one (vīryàvant) of the herbs, of the plants; let the goat-horned arāṭakī́, the sharp-horned, push out.

7. Of the hither-dancing, crested Gandharva, Apsaras-lord, I split the testicles, I bind fast (?) the member.