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xviii. 2- our pradhā́v (p. pra॰dhāú) ádhi seems only a blundering and unintelligible corruption. Some of our mss. (and one of SPP's) accent pradhā́vadhi. The comm. agrees with RV., and SPP. is not to be blamed for adopting, though against all the authorities save the comm., pradhā́vati in his text. TA. (which has our vss. 14, 17, and 16 following immediately after our 11-13, little as the two sets appear to have to do with each other) reads (in vi. 3. 2) with RV.

15. They who of old were won by right, born of right, increasers of right—to the seers rich in fervor (tápas-), born of fervor, O Yama, do thou go.

16. They who by fervor are unassailable, who by fervor have gone to heaven (svàr), who made fervor their greatness, unto them do thou go.

17. They who fight in the contests (pradhána), who are self-sacrificing (tanūtyáj) heroes, or who give thousand-fold sacrificial gifts, unto them do thou go.

18. Poets (kaví) of a thousand lays (-nīthá), who guard the sun—to the seers rich in fervor, born of fervor, O Yama, do thou go.

19. Be pleasant to him, O earth, a thornless resting-place; furnish him broad refuge.