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19. Wipe ye off on the lead; wipe ye off on the reeds; and what on the consuming fire; likewise on the dark (rāmá) ewe; headache on the pillow.

20. Having settled what is foul upon the lead [and] headache upon the pillow, having wiped off on the black ewe, be ye cleansed, fit for sacrifice.

21. Go away, O death, along a distant road which is thine here, other than that the gods go upon; I speak to thee having sight, hearing; let these many heroes be here.

22. These living ones have turned away from the dead; our invocation of the gods hath been auspicious (bhadrá) today; we have gone forward unto dancing, unto laughter; may we, rich in heroes, address counsel.

23. I set this enclosure for the living; let not another of them now go to that goal; living a hundred numerous autumns, let them set an obstacle to death with a mountain.

The verse is RV. x. 18. 4, and found also in VS. (xxxv. 15), TB. (iii. 7. ll$5$), TA. (vi. 10. 2), and Āp. (ix. 12. 4; xiv. 22. 3). RV. differs from our text only by reading jīvantu in c, and antár (for tirás) in d. VS. agrees throughout with RV.; TB. differs only by having (like AV.) tirás in d (eṣā́n nu in b is doubtless a misprint, as mátyám in d is a misprint for mṛtyúm: see the comm. ⌊the Poona ed., p. 1137, corrects them both⌋), and árdham in b. TA. reads mā́ nó ‘nu gād and árdham in b, and tirás and dadmahe in d. Āp. agrees exactly with TB. the first time; but the second time it has no nu (or ‘nu) in b, and dadhmahe in d. ⌊Cf. MP. ii. 22. 24.⌋ Ppp. gives, in c,