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399 variants, especially in the second line, where they read amadann enam iṣṭayaḥ, and ramate for kramate. In b, both give dakṣa and āyuni, and AÇS. ratnā. ⌊The verse has one triṣṭubh pāda (c); and b is a very poor jagatī.⌋

 

1. This favor, O Savitar, of true impulse, very wondrous, having all choice things, do I choose for myself; which of him, full-fed, thousand-streamed, Kaṇva the bull (mahiṣā) milked for Bhaga.

 

1. O Brihaspati, Savitar, increase thou him; enlighten him unto great good-fortune; however sharpened, sharpen him further; let all the gods revel after him.

 

The first verse is found in Pāipp. i., the other verses in Pāipp. xx. For further correspondences, see under the several verses. In Kāuç. (59. 19), in the kāmya section, hymns 17, 19, 20, 24-26, 29, 42, 46, 51, 79, 80, 82, and 103 of this book are addressed to