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xi. 3- 28. If thou hast eaten it retiring, thy breaths (prāṇá) will quit thee: so one says to him.

29. If thou hast eaten it coming on, thine expirations (apāná) will quit thee: so one says to him.

30. Not I, indeed, [have eaten] the rice-dish, nor the rice-dish me.

31. The rice-dish itself hath eaten the rice-dish.

* ⌊The text of the Anukr. reads enam anyābhyāṁ çrotrābhyām (= a of 33) ity āditaḥ saptadaçā ”rcyanuṣṭubhaḥ. The definition applies (perhaps with occasional forcing) to 14 of the 17 first avasānas of vss. 33-49. As for the other 3, the a of 38 and the a of 41 are accurately defined above, in the first line of the Anukr. excerpts for this paryāya; and the a of 37, in the definition next following the asterisk.⌋

†⌊The definition of 33 d, 44 d (9 syllables) is omitted by the Anukr.⌋

The second paryāya of this hymn is reckoned in the Anukr. as of 72 divisions in 18 gaṇas or paragraphs; but the actual division in the mss. is into 126 such divisions (7 to each gaṇa), as given in both editions; and the metrical description of the Anukr. (as reported above) is also on that basis.

⌊The division of this paryāya into 72 avasānas.—In his Critical Notice, p. 20-21, at the beginning of his first volume, SPP. treats of this matter; and just after the end (p. 356) of the text of his third volume, he prints again this paryāya, but divided into 72 avasānas "according to the instructions contained in the Sarvānukramaṇikā" which he had printed in the Critical Notice, l.c.⌋

⌊The Major Anukr. calls the 18 main divisions of this paryāya (answering to the "verses" of the Berlin ed.) by the name of daṇḍakas. Since the daṇḍakas are all subdivided, they are also (see p. 472) called ganas. Each dandaka falls into 7 subdivisions or avasānas, which may be designated as a, b, c, d, e, f, g. Each of these 7 is written out and counted for the first and last daṇḍaka (vss. 32 and 49, Berlin).⌋

⌊Similarly, in a sequence of refrains or anuṣan̄gas, the refrain is given and counted as an avasāna only for its first and last occurrence in that sequence. The third subdivision (or c: beginning taṁ vā aham) of each daṇḍaka, being unvaried throughout the paryāya, constitutes a sequence of 18 and is given and counted independently only for vss. 32 and 49; while for the 16 vss., 33-48, it is given (see SPP. in vol. iii.) and counted as one with b, thus making the avasāna to consist of b-c.—In like manner, the sixth subdivision (or f: beginning eṣa vā odanaḥ) and the seventh subdivision (or g: beginning sarvān̄ga eva), being unvaried throughout, constitute a sequence of 18 and are given and counted independently only for vss. 32 and 49; while for the other 16 vss. they are counted as one with e, thus making the avasāna to consist of e-g.⌋

⌊Furthermore, and on the other hand, subdivision e varies as to its beginning between tenāi ’nam, tayāi ’nam, and tāir enam, and tābhyām enam: but we find no unvaried sequences of more than two except tenāi ’nam etc. in the 5 vss., 39-43, and tābhyām