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⌊This twelfth book is the fifth and last of the second grand division of the Atharvan collection. For a general statement as to the make-up of the books of this division, page 471 may again be consulted. The Old Anukramaṇī describes the length of the artha-sūktas, hymns 1, 2, 3, and 4, by giving the overplus of each hymn over 60 verses. The assumed normal lengths in the case of books ix., x., xi., and xii. seem to be respectively 20, 30, 20, and 60 verses. The whole book has been translated by Victor Henry, Les livres X, XI et XII de l'Atharva-veda traduits et commentés, Paris, 1896. The bhāṣya is again lacking. The fifth or last hymn is made up of 7 paryāyas (see pages 471-2), which, if they be counted separately, make the hymns number 11 instead of 5: see page 611, top.⌋