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389 total is not a multiple of ten: thus, anuvāka 1 has three hymns, of 10 + 10 + 8 = 28 verses; 2 has two hymns, of 10 + 13 = 23 verses; 3 has three hymns, of 9 + 10 + 11 = 30 verses; 4 has three hymns, of 10 + 10 + 10 = 30 verses; and so on. His anuvāka endings coincide throughout with those of the Berlin edition, save that vii. 23 is reckoned by him (and P.) to anuvāka 2 instead of 3, thus making for 2 and 3 his verse-totals 23 and 30 instead of 22 and 31 (as the Old Anukramaṇī gives them) and spoiling the count of his first "decad" in 3. (Note that vii. 23 is a galita-verse.) His "decad"-divisions cut in two our hymns 26, 45, 54, 68, 72, 76, 79, 97, and 109.⌋

⌊It should here be mentioned that the Bombay edition, following the Major Anukramaṇī, counts hymns 6, 45, 68, 72, and 76 each as two hymns. From vii. 6. 3 to the end of the book, accordingly, Whitney gives a double numeration of the hymns: first the numeration of the Berlin edition, and then, in parenthesis, the numeration of the Bombay edition. As against the former, the latter involves a plus of one from vii. 6. 3 to vii. 45. i; a plus of two from vii. 45. 2 to vii. 68. 2; a plus of three from vii. 68. 3 to vii. 72. 2; a plus of four from vii. 72. 3 to vii. 76. 4; and a plus of five from vii. 76. 5 to the end. Finally it may be noted that vii. 54. 2 is reckoned (forwards) to vii. 55, but that this does not affect the hymn-numbers save for the verse concerned.⌋ ⌊Respecting book vii. in general, see pages cli, clii.⌋

1. They either who by meditation led the beginning (ágra) of speech, or who by mind spoke righteous things (ṛtá)—they, increasing with the third incantation (bráhman), perceived (man) with the fourth the name of the milch cow.

2. He, [as a] son, knows his father, he his mother; he is (bhuvat) a son (sūnú), he is one of generous returns (? púnarmagha); he enveloped the sky, the atmosphere, he the heaven (svàr); he became this all; he came to be here (ā-bhū).

This verse is found also in TS. (ii. 2. 12$1$) and TB. (iii. 5. 7$2$), with difference of reading only in the second half, where they have āúrṇod antárikṣaṁ sá súvaḥ sá víçvā bhúvo abh-. Ppp. so far agrees with them as to have, for d, viçvām bhuvo ‘bhavat svābhuvat. The comm., in b, takes punarmaghas first as two separate words (magha = dhana) and