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773 to facilitate reference to the Bombay edition, I have added, in ell-brackets (⌊ ⌋), the numbers of SPP's minor divisions, wherever the latter differ from those of the Berlin edition.⌋

⌊The excerpts from the Major Anukr. which concern the kāṇḍa as a whole may first be given.⌋

[''aṣṭādaça paryāyāḥ. adhyātmakam; mantroktadevatyā uta vrātyadāivatam.'']

1. A Vrātya there was, just going about; he stirred up Prajāpati.

2. He, Prajāpati, saw in himself gold (suvárṇa); he generated that.

3. That became one; that became star-marked (lalā́ma); that became great; that became chief; that became bráhman; that became fervor; that became truth; therewith he had progeny.

4. He increased; he became great; he became the great god (mahādevá).

5. He compassed the lordship of the gods; he became the Lord (ī́çāna).

6. He became the sole Vrātya; he took to himself a bow; that was Indra's bow.

7. Blue its belly, red [its] back.

8. With the blue he envelops (pra-vṛ) a hostile cousin, with the red he pierces one hating him [—he who knows thus]: so say the theologians (brahmavādín).