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833 end pitṛ́bhyas ⌊as in our 5 b⌋ for pitṝ́ṅr úpa. In d, SPP. reads, with RV., áthe ”m enam, alleging for his reading three out of eight authorities, as against two or three that have imám. The comm. appears to read īm. Of our mss., all save O.Op.R. give áthe ’mám enam (and O. is corrected once to this, but the correction struck out again), as our edition reads; this is so bad a corruption that the authority for the other should be regarded as sufficient. TA. (in vi. 1. 4) agrees with RV. except in having karávas in its c ⌊our 5 a⌋. The text of the comm. agrees with RV. and TA. in having pitṛbhyas for pitṝṅr upa, while the comm. quotes pitṛbhyas and then adds and explains upa ⌊constructively a blend-reading⌋. Our Bp. appears to give in a çuçucaḥ, as it ⌊apparently⌋ ought to do according to Prāt. iv. 86, though the example is not quoted in the comment on that rule; but the other pada-mss. ⌊and SPP.⌋ have çūçucaḥ. The Anukr. is questionable in its reading as to the verse, whether tristubh or jagatt: the RV. version is pure tristubh; the AV. one is mixed (12 + 11: 11 + 12). Kāuç. (81. 33) prescribes this verse to be used, with 2. 36; 3. 71, and ii. 34. 5, when the youngest son lights the funeral pile, some of the schol. declaring vss. 4-7 to be intended instead ⌊cf. the comm., page 86$20$⌋; then, in 81. 44, vss. 4-9 and 11-18 are called anuṣṭhānīs, and are to be repeated by the anuṣṭhātṛ during the cremation. ⌊Root kṣip properly means 'warp' in its obsolete sense 'cast or throw.' If, as I think, W. is right in rendering the causative here by 'warp' = 'twist out of shape, contort,' the cases present an interesting semantic parallel. BR. render by 'platzen machen.' Different is the sense of ava-kṣip at 4. 12: see my note.⌋

5. When thou shalt make him done, O Jātavedas, then commit him to the Fathers; when he shall go to that other life (ásunīti), then shall he become a controller (? vaçanī́) of the gods.

6. With the trikadrukas it purifies itself; six wide ones, verily one great one; triṣṭúbh, gāyatrī́, the meters: all those [are] set in Yama.