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635 at end of b, and two or three of the mss. (including our O.) do the same. 'In front' and 'behind' are, of course, = 'in the east' and 'in the west.' The d of aṣṭā́cakra, and its retention in the pada-text (aṣṭā́॰cakram) are by Prāt. iii. 2 and iv. 94.

23. He who is lord of this that has every (víçva) [kind of] birth, of every stirring thing—to thee being such, O breath, having a quick bow among the unexhausted (? ánya), be homage.

24. He who is lord of this that has all (sárva) [kinds of] birth, of all that stirs, unwearied, wise by bráhman—let breath go after (anu-sthā) me.

25. Upright among the sleeping he wakes; by no means (nanú) does he fall down horizontal (tiryán̄); no one soever has heard of his sleeping among the sleeping.

26. O breath, turn not about from me; not another than I shalt thou be; like the embryo of the waters, in order to life (jīvás), I bind thee to me, O breath.