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719 58. Whoso this day, O heavenly sun, shall go between both thee and me—on him we wipe off evil-dreaming, pollution, and difficulties.

59. Let us not go forth from the road, nor, O Indra, from the sacrifice with soma; let not the niggards stand between us.

60. What line, accomplisher of the sacrifice, is stretched clear to the gods, that, sacrificed unto, may we attain.

1. The bright (çukrá) shining lights (ketú) of him go up in the sky—of the men-watching Aditya, him of great courses (-vratá), liberal (mīḍhvā́ṅs).

2. [Him,] shining (svar) with the brightness (arcís) of the foreknowing quarters, well-winged, flying swift in the ocean (arṇavá)—we would praise the sun, the shepherd of existence, who with his rays shines unto all the quarters.

The Pet. Lex. (followed by Henry) emends prajñā́nām to prajñā́nam, with much plausibility; yet it is opposed by x. 7. 34, díço yáç cakré prajñā́nīḥ. Ppp. reads