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vi. 109- Ppp. has, in a, kṣupta- for kṣipta-; and, for b, uta ca viçvabh-; further, for d, alaṁ jīvātavā yati.* In the kampa between a and b, SPP. unaccountably reads ū3ta instead of u1ta; the fact that his mss. happen in this case all to agree in giving ū3ta is of no account whatever, since they are wildly inconsistent in this whole class of cases; among our mss. are found ū3, ū1, and u3. The comm. gives two alternatives both for kṣipta- and for atividdha-: for the former tiraskṛta (of other remedies) and vātarogaviçeṣa, and so on. *⌊Intending -tavāi iti?⌋

2. The berries talked together, coming from their birth: whomever we shall reach living, that man shall not be harmed.

3. The Asuras dug thee in; the gods cast thee up again, a remedy for the vātī́kṛta, likewise a remedy for what is bruised.

1. Since, an ancient one, to be praised at the sacrifices, thou sittest as hótar both of old and recent—do thou, O Agni, both gratify thine own self, and bestow (ā-yaj) good fortune on us.

2. Born in jyeṣṭhaghnī́, in Yama's two Unfasteners (vicṛ́t)—do thou protect him from the Uprooter (mūlabárhaṇa); may he conduct him across all difficulties unto long life, of a hundred autumns.

The consecutiveness of the verse is very defective, inasmuch as 'born' (jātás, nom.) in a can hardly be understood otherwise than of the child, while Agni is addressed in b,