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vi. 116- 2. Vivasvant's son shall make [us] an apportionment; having a portion of sweet, he shall unite [us] with sweet—whatever sin of [our] mother's, sent forth, hath come to us, or what [our] father, wronged,* hath done in wrath.

3. If from [our] mother or if from our father, forth from brother, from son, from thought (cétas), this sin hath come to [us]—as many Fathers as have fastened on (sac) us, of them all be the fury propitious [to us].

1. What I eat (?) that is borrowed, that is not given back; with what tribute of Yama I go about—now, O Agni, I become guiltless (anṛṇá) as to that; thou knowest how to unfasten all fetters.

The translation implies emendation of ásmi to ádmi in a; this is suggested by jaghasa in vs. 2, and is adopted by Ludwig also; but possibly apratīttam asmi might be borne as a sort of careless vulgar expression for "I am guilty of non-payment." More or less of the verse is found in several other texts, with considerable variations of reading: thus TS. (iii. 3. 8$8-9$), TA. (ii. 3. 1$1-2$), and MS. (iv. 14. 17) have pādas a, b, c (as a, b, d in TS.); in a, all with yát kúsīdam for apamítyam and without asmi, and TA.MS. with ápratītam, and TS. ending with máyi (for yát), and TA.MS. with máye ’há; in b, all put yéna before yamásya, and TA.MS. have nidhínā for balínā, while MS. ends with cárāvas; in c (d in TS.), all read etát for idám, and MS. accents ánṛṇas (c in TS. is ihāt ’vá sán nirávadaye tát: cf. our 2 a); d in TA. is jī́vann evá práti tát te dadhāmi, with which MS. nearly agrees, but is corrupt at the end: j.e.p. hastā́nṛṇāni. TB. (iii. 7. 9$8$) corresponds only in the first half-verse (with it precisely agrees ĀpÇS. in xiii. 22, 5): thus, yā́ny apāmítyāny ápratīttāny ásmi yamásya balínā cárāmi; its