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vii. 64- The second half-verse is found without variant in AÇS. ii. 7. 11. The comm. takes amṛkṣat from root mṛç, as the translation does; cf. TS. iii. 2. 6$2$, yát kṛṣṇaçakunáḥ...avamṛçét...yác chvā́ ’vamṛçét. ⌊See the note of Henry or Griffith.⌋ Such a verse (8 + 11: 8 + 8) is elsewhere called by the Anukr. an urobṛhatī.

 

1. Since thou, O off-wiper (apāmārgá), hast grown with reverted fruit, mayest thou repel (yu) from me all curses very far from here.

2. What [is] ill-done, what pollution, or what we have practised evilly—by thee, O all-ways-facing off-wiper, we wipe that off (apa-mṛj).

3. If we have been together with one dark-toothed, ill-nailed, mutilated, by thee, O off-wiper, we wipe off all that.

 

1. If it was in the atmosphere, if in the wind, if in the trees, or if in the bushes—what the cattle heard uttered—let that bráhmaṇa come again to us.

Ppp. reads: yady antarikṣaṁ yadi vā rajāṅsi tata vṛkṣeṣu bhayanalapeṣu: ajasravan paç- etc. Nearly all the authorities give ásravan in c; our D. has áçr-, and, according to SPP., three of his pada-mss. he therefore gives in his text áçravan, which is also the comm's reading; and that is implied in the translation. The comm. connects the hymn with the prescriptions as to the time of study or refraining from study