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723 22. Thou goest through the sky, the broad welkin (rájas), fashioning (mā) the day with [thy] rays, seeing the generations (jánman), O sun.

23. Seven yellow steeds, O heavenly sun, draw in the chariot thee the flame-haired, the out-looking.

24. The sun hath yoked the seven neat (çundhyú) daughters of the chariot; with them, [who are] self-yoked, he goeth.

25. The ruddy one hath mounted the sky with penance, [he] rich in penance; he comes to the womb (yóni), he is born again; he hath become over-lord of the gods.

26. He who belongs to all men (-carṣaṇí) and has faces on all sides, who has hands on all sides and palms on all sides—he brings together with his (two) arms, together with his wings (pl.), generating heaven-and-earth, sole god.

27. The one-footed strode out more than the two-footed; the two-footed falls upon (abhi-i) the three-footed from behind; the two-footed strode out more than the six-footed; they sit together [about] the body of the one-footed.

Sam-ās has no good right to an accusative object; and one of our mss. (D.) reads tanvàm, loc, which would be grammatically an acceptable emendation; as regards the sense, that is too obscure for us to derive any help from it. Pādas b and c are wanting