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823 Agni). He then renders juhurāṇás most absurdly by āhvayan, ⌊saying that "the root hvṛ 'crook' is here used in the sense of root hū 'call'"⌋. He reads in d (as do some of the mss., including our O.Op.R.) yātān, as accus. of the pple yāta, qualifying devān understood, rendering devān abhigacchato no ‘smān rakṣitum! and so on. The version of the line given above is of course mechanical only.

34. Hard to reverence (? durmántu) here is the name of the immortal, that she of like sign should become of diverse form; whoso shall reverence Yama with proper reverence (? sumántu), him, O Agni, exalted one, do thou protect, unremitting.

35. In whom the gods revel at the council, maintain themselves in Vivasvant's seat—they placed light in the sun, rays in the moon: the two, unfailing, wait upon (pari-car) the brightness (dyotaní).

36. In what secret (apīcyà) devotion (mánman) the gods go about (sam-car)—we know it not; may Mitra, may Aditi, may god Savitar declare us here guiltless to Varuṇa.

37. O companions, we would supplicate (ā-ças) worship (bráhman) for Indra, possessor of the thunderbolt, to praise, indeed, the most manly, the daring.

38. For thou art famed for might (çávas), for Vritra-slaying, a Vritra-slayer; thou out-bestowest the bounteous with thy bounties, O hero.

The verse is RV. viii. 24. 2, and without variant, if, with SPP., we read çrutás at end of a. Our text has çritás, with a part of the mss.; they vary between çrutás (our