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xviii. 1- O.Op.D.R., and half of SPP's; also the comm.), çritás (our P.M.T., and two of SPP's), and çṛtás (our Bp.Bs.E.I.K.Kp., and three or four of SPP's authorities)—which last is doubtless only a careless variant of çritás. The translation given above implies çrutás. The comm. perhaps reads in b vṛtrahatye ’va.

39. Thou goest over the earth as a stegá over the ground; let winds blow here on the great earth (bhū́mi) for us; Mitra for us there (átra), Varuṇa, being joined, hath let loose heat (çóka), as fire does in the forest.

40. Praise thou the famed sitter on the hollow of men (jána), the terrible king, formidable assailant (? upahatnú); being praised, O Rudra, be gracious to the singer; let thine army (? sénya) lay low (ni-vap) another than us.

The verse corresponds to RV. ii. 33. 11 (also found in TS. iv. 5. 10$3$, without variant from RV.), which reads in a-b -sádaṁ yúvānam mṛgáṁ ná bh-, and, for d, ‘nyáṁ te asmán ní vapantu sénāḥ. The substitution in our text of sényam for sénās at the end throws into confusion sense and construction. The comm. first takes it as = senās, and then as accus. qualifying anyám and signifying tava senārham, in the latter case supplying senās as subject of the verb. Gartasádam he takes first in the Nirukta sense of çmaçānasaṁcaya, and then in its "ordinary" (prasiddha) meaning, adding tasyā ’raṇye saṁcārād gartasadanaṁ yujyate. The Kāuç. (85. 19) uses the verse in connection with the digging of a hollow (garta) in the middle of the measured space at the piṇḍapitṛyajña, and the scattering into it of a number of heterogeneous substances.