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727 çivāyā nas tanvā çarma yacchāt, which is found nowhere in our text. All our mss. ⌊except D.⌋ agree in accenting babhū́va, for no discoverable reason. ⌊Five of SPP's authorities (as well as W's D.) read babhūva without accent.⌋

45. The greatness of him exceeds (pári) the earth, the ocean; shining abroad with light, it exceeds (pári) the sky, the atmosphere; beholding the all, beneficent, reverend, let him hear this which I say.

46. Agni hath been awakened by the kindling of men to meet the dawn coming like a milch-cow; like young (yahvá) [birds?] rising forth to a branch, the lights (bhānú) go forth unto the firmament (nā́ka).

1. He who generated these two, heaven-and-earth; who clothes himself in existences, making them a garment (drā́pi); in whom abide the six wide directions, toward which he, the flying one, looks all abroad—against that god, angered, [is] this offense (ā́gas); whoso scathes a Brahman that knows thus, do thou, O ruddy one, make him quake, destroy him; fasten on the fetters of the Brahman-scather.