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829 our comm. agrees. Used in Kāuç. (87. 19: the comm. says, with vs. 57 also) to accompany, in the piṇḍapitṛyajña, the lighting of two pieces of wood. ⌊The next vs. is a variation of this.⌋

57. Lightful (dyumánt) would we light thee, lightful would we kindle; do thou, lightful, bring the lightful Fathers to eat the oblation.

58. The An̄girases, our návagva Fathers, the Atharvans, the Bhṛigus, soma-drinkers (somyá)—may we be in the favor of those worshipful ones, likewise in their excellent well-willing.

59. Come thou hither with the worshipful An̄girases; revel here, O Yama, with the Vāirūpas—I call Vivasvant, who is thy father—sitting down upon this barhís.

60. Ascend thou, O Yama, this cushion (prastará), in concord with the An̄giras Fathers; let the sacred utterances (mántra) made in praise by the poets bring thee; then (enā́), O king, revel thou in the oblation.

61. These ascended up from here; they ascended the backs of the sky (dív); the An̄girases have gone forth to heaven (dív), like bhūrjís, by the road.

The verse is found in SV. (i. 92), which combines in b diváḥ pṛ-, accents bhūrjáyas in c and inserts úd before dyā́m and leaves yayus unaccented in d. It also accents