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749 45. They (f.) who spun, wove, and who stretched [the web], what divine ones (f.) gave the ends about, let them wrap thee in order to old age; [as] one long-lived put about thee this garment.

46. They bewail the living one (m.); they lead away the sacrifice (adhvará); the men sent their thoughts after ⌊root dhī...ánu⌋ a long reach (prásiti); what is lovely (vāmá) for the Fathers who came together here; joy to the husbands for embracing the wife.

47. I maintain for thee, in order to progeny, a pleasant, firm (dhruvá) stone in the lap of the divine earth; stand thou on that, one to be exulted after, of excellent glory; let Savitar make for thee a long life-time.

Ppp. puts syonam after dhruvam in a, reads pṛthivyām in b, and tam ā rohā ’numadyā suvīrā for c, and tvā for te in d ⌊i.e., it has tvāyus for ta āyus⌋. In Kāuç. 76. 15, the first half-verse accompanies the setting of a stone in a lump of dung, and in 76. 16 the