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vii. 102- the meter demands me-kṣi- ⌊rather ūrdhuás?⌋. The comm. has instead māi ’ṣyāmi, explaining it as = mā gamiṣyami! Virtually all the authorities, too, leave tiṣṭhan unaccented (two out of fourteen of SPP's and our R.s.m. tíṣṭhan); this both editions emend. ⌊The Anukr. seems to scan as 11 + 8: 7 + 8 = 34.⌋

⌊The squatting posture in making water is, I believe, general with the natives of India to this day. So Hesiod, Works and Days, 727: μηδ' ἀντ΄ἠελίοιο τετραμμένος ὀρθὸς ὀμιχεῖν...ἑζόμενος κτλ. Cf. xiii. 1. 56 and my note.⌋

Here ends the ninth anuvāka, of 12 hymns and 21 verses: the old Anukr. says navamo dvādaça and ekaviṅça.

 

1. What Kshatriya, seeking betterment, shall lead us up out of this reproachful hate—who that desires sacrifice, or who that desires bestowal? who wins long life-time among the gods?

 

{{smaller block|{{c|[''Brahman.—ātmadāivatam. trāiṣṭubham.'']}}

Found also in Pāipp. xx. Used by Kāuç. (66. 17) in a savayajña, having as sava a cultivated field {urvarākhye savayajñe, comm.).

Translated: Henry, 41, 116; Griffith, i. 379.—Cf. above, v. 11, introduction.}}

1. Who, enjoying companionship with Brihaspati, shall shape [its] body at his will—the spotted milch-cow, well-milking, with constant calf, given by Varuṇa to Atharvan?

 

