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xviii. 2- 7. Go thou to the sun with thine eye, to the wind with thy soul (ātmán); go both to heaven and to earth with [their] due shares (? dhárman); or go to the waters, if there it is acceptable (hitá) to thee; in the herbs stand firm with thy bodies.

8. The goat is the share of the heat (tápas); heat thou that; that let thine ardor (çocís) heat, that thy flame (arcís); what propitious bodies (tanū́) are thine, O Jātavedas, with them carry him to the world of the well-doing.

9. What ardors (çocí), swiftnesses (ráṅhi) are thine, O Jātavedas, with which thou fillest the sky, the atmosphere, let them collect (sam-ṛ) after the goat as he goes; then with other most propitious ones make him propitious.

10. Release again, O Agni, to the Fathers him who goes (car) offered to thee, with svadhā́; clothing himself in life (ā́yus), let him go unto [his] posterity (? çéṣas); let him be united with a body, very splendid.

The corresponding verse in RV. (x. 16. 5) reads at end of b svadhā́bhis, in c vetu for yātu, and at end jātavedaḥ (for suvárcāḥ); TA. (in vi. 4. 2) also has svadhā́bhis and jātavedas, but in c gives úpa yātu çéṣam. ⌊The last pāda, d, recurs below at 3. 58.⌋ The third pāda is of doubtful meaning, but perhaps relates to the return of the deceased, after due installation among the Manes, to receive the ancestral offerings. The comm. explains çéṣas ⌊which he takes as çeṣa-s, masc.⌋ simply as apatyanāman. ⌊Kāuç. 81. 44 excepts this verse from the sequence of 14 anuṣṭhānī versts (4-18): see under vs. 4.⌋ In Kāuç. (82. 28) the verse is used in the ceremonies of the third day