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367 other half-verse corresponds with our 2 a, b. MB. (ii. 3. 20) has yat kusīdam apradattam maye ’ha yena yamasya nidhinā carāṇi: idaṁ tad agne anṛṇo bhavāmi jīvann eva pratidatte dadāni. ⌊This suggests bhavāni as an improvement in our c.⌋ Finally GB. (ii. 4. 8) quotes the pratīka in this form: yat kusīdam apamityam apratītam. Ppp. reads for a, b apamṛtyum apratītaṁ yad asininnasyena, etc., and, for d, jīvanna ena prati dadāmi sarvam (nearly as TA. d, above). The comm. takes balinā as = balavatā.

2. Being just here we give it back; living, we pay it in (ni-hṛ) for the living; what grain I have devoured having borrowed [it], now, O Agni, I become guiltless as to that.

3. Guiltless in this [world], guiltless in the higher, guiltless in the third world may we be; the worlds traversed by the gods and traversed by the Fathers—all the roads may we abide in guiltless.

1. If (yát) with our hands we have done offenses, desiring to take up the course (?) of the dice, let the two Apsarases, fierce-(ugrá-)seeing, fierce-conquering, forgive today that guilt (ṛṇá) of ours.

Our mss., like SPP's, waver in b between gatnúm and gattúm or gantúm, but it is a mere indistinctness of writing, and gatnúm (which not even Böhtlingk's last supplement gives) is doubtless the genuine reading, as given by SPP.; our gaṇám is an unsuccessful conjecture. The comm. paraphrases the word with gantavyaṁ çabdasparçādiviṣayam, and upalips- with anubhavitum icchantaḥ: 'desiring to sense the sound, feeling, etc.';