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475 had seen in the word anything of the root mud, they would have divided sa॰múde; and yet it is very likely that it is a corruption for sam॰múde; the comm. glosses it with sammodāya, as if the reading were sammúde. No variant from Ppp. is noted.

The comm. divides our 15-17 into two long verses, ending 15 with kathā́ syāḥ. His intention seems to be to make just twenty verses of the hymn.

16. Let not the jaw-snapping (?) grinder (jambhá), let not the darkness find thee, let not the tongue-wrencher (?); how shouldst thou be one that perisheth? up let the Ādityas, the Vasus bear thee, up let Indra-and-Agni, for thy welfare.

17. Up hath heaven, up hath earth, up hath Prajāpati caught thee; up out of death have the herbs, with Soma for their king, made thee pass.

18. Be this man just here, O gods; let him not go yonder from hence; him by what is of thousand-fold might do we make pass up out of death.

19. I have made thee pass up out of death; let the vigor-givers blow together; let not the women of disheveled locks, let not the evil-wailers, wail for thee.

20. I have taken, I have found thee; thou hast come back renewed; whole-limbed one! I have found thy whole sight, and thy whole life-time.

21. It hath shone out for thee; it hath become light; darkness hath departed from thee; away from thee we set down death [and] perdition, away the yákṣma.