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vi. 75- The mark of punctuation added after d in our edition is not in the mss.; it was heedlessly introduced in going through the press; and the accent of çaçvatī́bhyas is misprinted.

1. They who sit about him, who pile on [fuel] in order to beholding [him]—let Agni, fully kindled, with his tongues arise out of [their] heart.

2. Of the heating (? sāṁtapaná) Agni I take hold of the track (? padá), in order to length of life (ā́yus)—out of whose mouth the soothsayer (addhātí) sees the smoke arising.

3. He who knoweth the fuel of him, piled on by the kṣatríya—he setteth not the foot (padá) in detriment unto death.

4. They that go about (paryāyín) do not slay him, he goes not down to the dead (? sanná)—the kṣatríya who, knowing, takes the name of Agni unto length of life.