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34. The Apsarases revel a joint reveling, between the oblation-holder and the sun; they are thy birthplace; go away to them; homage I pay thee with the Gandharva-season.

35. Homage to the Gandharva's mind (?), and homage to his terrible (bhā́ma) eye we pay; O Viçvāvasu, homage [be] to thee with worship (bráhman); go away unto thy wives, the Apsarases.

36. With wealth may we be well-willing; we have made the Gandharva go (vṛt) up from here; that god hath gone to the highest station (sadhástha); we have gone where they lengthen out [their] life-time.

37. Unite (sam-sṛj), O ye (two) parents (pitṛ́), the (two) things that are seasonable; ye shall be mother and father of seed; as a male (márya) a female (yóṣā), do thou mount her; make ye (two) progeny; here enjoy (puṣ) wealth.

⌊For "mount her," W. suggests in pencil "make her mount"; but I suspect that the full expression would be ádhi rohaya çépa enām. In a, ṛ́tviye is regarded by the pada-text as dual, and is translated accordingly; it probably means the respective contributions of the two to the embryo. Ppp. reads instead (-rā) vṛddhaye, a welcome emendation. Further, in b, it puts pitā, before mātā and has ja for ca and ends b