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xviii. 1- udā́ruhan in a, as does our edition; but the mss. decidedly favor úd ā́ ’ruhan (p. út: ā́: aruhan), and SPP. rightly adopts this reading. The comm. reads etad instead of ete in a; it makes bhūrjáyas (p. bhūḥ॰jáyaḥ; SV. p. bhūḥ: jáyah, this pada-text dividing compound words without any hyphen or its equivalent between the parts) an epithet of the An̄girases, rendering it by bharaṇavanto bhuvaṁ jitavanto vā, and justifies the accent of yayús by treating yáthā as = yādṛçena "by what road the bhūrjis went" etc. SPP. accents bhūrjáyas on the authority of a single one of his mss.; all ours leave it without accent (in our text the accent-mark under its final syllable has become lost in printing); both Pet. Lexx. ignore the word entirely; its real meaning is wholly obscure, as it seems to have been to the makers of the pada-text; for their suggested etymology is plainly valueless. The verse is used by Kāuç. (80. 35), with 2. 48, 53; 3. 8, 9; 4. 44, in preparing for taking the body of the deceased person to the funeral pile; the six verses are called hariṇīs, and are repeatedly employed in other parts of the funeral and ancestral rites (82. 31; 83. 20, 23; 84. 13); also by Vāit. (37. 24), in a like connection.

⌊Here ends the first anuvāka, with 1 hymn and 61 verses. The quoted Anukr. says ekaṣaṣṭiç ca.⌋