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xiv. 2- 14. [As] a soulful cultivated field hath this woman come; in her here, O men, scatter ye seed; she shall give birth to progeny for you from her belly (vakṣáṇās), bearing the exuded (dugdhá) sperm of the male (ṛṣabhá).

15. Stand firm; virā́j art thou; as it were, Vishṇu here, O Sarasvatī; O Sinīvālī, let her have progeny; may she be in the favor of Bhaga.

16. Let your wave smite up the pegs; O waters, release the yoke-ropes (yóktra); let not the two inviolable [kine], not evil-doing, free from guilt, come upon what is unpropitious (? áçuna).

17. With an eye not terrible, not husband-slaying, pleasant, helpful (çagmá), very propitious, of easy control (suyáma) for the houses, hero-bearing, loving brothers-in-law (?), with favoring mind—may we thrive together with thee.

The concluding word is here rendered as the text gives it, but there is little question that it ought to be emended (with Ppp.) to -mānāḥ, as qualifying 'we.' This verse and the next are a sort of duplication and variation of RV. x. 85. 44; our a here is nearly the same with the first pāda of that verse, which, however, reads edhi for our syonā. Ppp. makes our 17 c, d and 18 c, d change places, reading for the former vīrasūr devakāmā syonāṁ tvedhiṣīmahi sumanasyamānāḥ. Our mss. are divided in c between devṛ́kāmā and devák-, the majority (not Bp.Bs.p.m.E.O.D.) having, with RV. and Ppp., the latter, which is therefore more probably the true reading. Ppp. has in a (like RV.) edhi but with syonā after it ⌊a "blend-reading" such as the Vulgate shows at vs. 18?⌋; and, in b, sūyamā gṛheṣu. ⌊Cf. MP. i. 1. 4; MGS. i. 10. 6, and