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319 and iii. 11. 7 two immediately successive versions), and, what is unusual, with differences of reading in the different versions. VS. differs from our text ⌊see note*⌋ in b, having in x. átisrutas, and in xix. átidrutas. TB. has both times vāyús at the beginning, but in b the first time prank and the second prā́n̄k, both times átidrutas. MS. has in ii. vā́yos (doubtless a misprint for vāyós) and átisrutas; in iii., the first time vāyús, prā́k, and átidrutas, the second time vāyós, pratyák, and átisrutas. The Atharvan reading, according to the Prāt, phonetic rule ii. 9, ought to be pratyán̄k before a following s; but (as explained in the note to that rule) the mss. read simple n̄, and both printed texts adopt it. ⌊Cf. Weber, Rājasūya, p. 101, n. 7.⌋ *⌊Should be "thrice": W. overlooked that at xix. 3 also there are two immediately successive versions, the first with pratyán̄k...átidrutaḥ, the second with prā́n̄k...átidrutaḥ. Moreover, VS. has in x. (like TB.) vāyúḥ.⌋

2. Let the mother waters further (sūd) us; let the ghee-purifying ones purify us with ghee; since the heavenly ones carry forth all evil (riprá), forth from them, indeed, I come clean, purified.

3. Whatever, O Varuṇa, that is hateful to the people of the gods human beings practise here, if without intention we have obstructed thine ordinances (dhármān), do not, O god, harm us for that sin.

1. The sun goes up from the sky, burning down in front the demons; he, the Āditya, from the mountains, seen of all, slayer of the unseen.