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853 dattāyā ’sm-. ⌊Our pada-texts read dattó (=dattá u) íti: see Prāt. i. 80.⌋ The translation implies that dráviṇe ’há is for dráviṇam ihá (p. dráviṇā: ihá); the comm. glosses dráviṇā by draviṇam; ⌊cf. my Noun-Inflection, p. 331, ¶ 4⌋. The comm. also understands the first pāda to signify that the Fathers are to go to their own world, and then to return when invoked to their own sacrifice; and this is probably the sense.

15. Let Kaṇva, Kakshīvant, Purumīḍha, Agastya, Çyāvāçva, Sobharī, Archanānas, Viçvāmitra, Jamadagni here, Atri, Kaçyapa, Vāmadeva, aid us.

16. O Viçvāmitra, Jamadagni, Vasishṭha, Bharadvāja, Gotama, Vāmadeva—Atri hath taken (grabh) our çardís with obeisances; ye Fathers of good report, be gracious to us.