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293 grain-creepers (sasyavallī); he gives the second the slightly different form çalān̄jālā. The comment to Prāt. iv. 107 quotes alasālā ’si as instancing the indispensableness of the pada-text to a student; but what good it does him in this instance is quite unclear. Our Bp. gives the third pāda thus: nīlāgalasā́lé ’ti nīlāgalasā́lā. The verse is capable of being read as 8 + 7: 6.

1. As this great earth receives the embryo of existences, so let thine embryo be maintained, in order to birth after pregnancy.

2. As this great earth maintains these forest-trees, so let thine etc. etc.

3. As this great earth maintains the rugged (párvata) mountains, so let thine etc. etc.

4. As this great earth maintains the various (víṣṭhita) living beings, so let thine etc. etc.

1. The first blast of jealousy, and the one after the first, the fire, the heat of the heart—this we extinguish for thee.

2. As the earth [is] dead-minded, more dead-minded than a dead man, and as [is] the mind of one who has died, so of the jealous man the mind [be] dead.