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⌊The sixth book consists mainly of hymns of 3 verses. It is divided into thirteen anuvāka-groups, which have ten hymns each, except the third, seventh, eleventh, and twelfth groups, which have eleven hymns each, and the thirteenth, which has eighteen. It thus contains one hundred and forty-two hymns: and of these, one hundred and twenty-two have 3 verses each; twelve have 4 verses each; and eight have 5 verses each. On account of the intrinsic interest, the variety, and the convenient length of the hymns of this book, they have been favorite subjects of translation and comment. Over half of them (79) have been translated by Ludwig in his Der Rigveda, vol. iii. (Die Mantra-litteratur); over half of them (74) also by Bloomfield in Sacred Books of the East, vol. xlii.; over a third (1-50) by Dr. Carl A. Florenz in Bezzenberger's Beiträge zur Kunde der Indogermanischen Sprachen, vol. xii. 249-314; and nearly a quarter (34) by Grill in his Hundert Lieder.⌋

Found also in Pāipp. xix.; and in AÇS. viii. 1. 18; the first verse, too, is SV. i. 177. Used by Kāuç. first (23. 2) in a rite for good fortune on building a house, with offering a second oblation; then (50. 13) for success in traffic, with vi. 3-7, 59, 93, 107, 128, and