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v. 18- "letztgeboren," implying emendation to carama-jā́m, suggests a welcome improvement of the text. Késara॰prābandhāyās has its long ā of -prā- in pada-text noted in Prāt. iv. 96. Ppp. reads ivā ’carat in b.

12. Those hundred and one fellows (? janátā) whom the earth shook off, having injured the progeny of the Brahmans, perished irretrievably.

13. The insulter of the gods goes about among mortals; he becomes one who has swallowed poison, [becomes] mainly composed of bones; he who injures the Brahman, the connection of the gods, he goes not to the world to which the Fathers go.

14. Agni verily our guide. Soma is called [our] heir, Indra slayer of imprecation (?): so know the devout that.

15. Like an arrow smeared [with poison], O lord of men, like an adder, O lord of cattle—that arrow of the Brahman is terrible; with it he pierces the insulting.

1. They grew excessively; they did not quite (iva) touch up to the sky; having injured Bhrigu, the Sriñjayas, Vāitahavyas, perished.