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xiv. 2- 42. What priest's portion they (dual) give to me the bride-seeker (vadhūyú), the bridal garment and bride's dress, do ye, O Brihaspati and Indra, assenting, together give it to the priest (brahmán).

43. Awaking out of a pleasant lair (yóni), mightily enjoying yourselves, merry, having good kine, good sons, good houses, may ye, living, pass the outshining dawns.

44. Clothing myself anew, fragrant, well-dressed, I have risen alive unto the outshining dawns; as a bird from the egg, I have been released out of all sin.

45 . Beautiful [are] heaven-and-earth, pleasant near by, of great courses; seven divine waters have flowed; let them free us from distress.

46. Unto Sūryā, unto the gods, unto Mitra and Varuṇa, unto them who are forethoughtful of that which exists, have I paid this homage.

47. He who, without a clamp (? abhiçríṣ), before the piercing of the neck-ropes (? jatrú), combines (sam-dhā) a combination—he the bountiful, the one of much good—removes again what is spoiled (víhruta).

⌊Or 'joins a joining' and 'mends again what is damaged,' as W. suggests in pencil.⌋ This obscure verse is RV. viii. 1 . 12, and is found also in several other texts, as SV. (i. 244), MS. (iv. 9. 12), TA. (iv. 20. 1), PB. (ix. 10. 1), KÇS. xxv. 5. 30. The RV. text differs from ours only by having in d íṣkartā for níṣk-; KÇS. alone agrees with RV. in this; SV. is throughout as AV.; PB. begins yakṣate cid, and has vihṛtam d; TA.