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⌊Notes to the Anukramaṇī-excerpts.⌋ $1$⌊In giving this item, the Anukr. repeats the half-çloka from the Old Anukr., given at p. 814.⌋ $2$⌊The mss. read namo vaḥ pitara iti pitṛdevatyam: ādyā (vs. 81) prājāpatyānuṣṭup etc. By using the neuter -devatyam, perhaps the Anukr. means the whole decad-sūkta (the 28th), except vss. 88 and 89.⌋ $3$⌊Verses 43 and 25 were defined by the Anukr. under 3. 69 and 3. 68, and the definitions are not repeated here.⌋ $3$⌊In stating that vss. 71-86 are 1-av., the Anukr. uses the ...itiprabhṛti...ityātas that appears at Kāuç. 81. 44: cf. 85. 26 and 86. 17, where also we have the strange ityātas.⌋

⌊Parts of the hymn are prose: vss. 27, 67-68, 71-74, and 76-87: so Whitney, Index, p. 6. As to vs. 75, it is hard to say whether the fact that it scans easily is significant or not. Perhaps we have here a mere casual lapse into meter (cf. p. 772, ¶5); or it may be that the mantra, as the first of the sequence to which it belongs, is intentionally metrical, while the ūhas of vss. 76 and 77 destroy the rhythm of those vss. The comm., p. 240$4$, lumps the whole decad-sūkta, vss. 71-80, together, and says etat sūktaṁ sarvaṁ yajurmantrātmakam.⌋

⌊Only one verse (49) is found in Pāipp. As to the significance of the occurrence, see under vs. 49.⌋

⌊Ritual uses.—The Vāitāna naturally makes few citations from this hymn: vs. 59 is used in the agnyādheya; and vss. 28 and 75-77 in the agniṣṭoma. But in the sākamedha, particularly in the offering to the manes (Vāit. 9. 8) in one of the seasonal sacrifices, vs. 71 finds application; as also, I suspect, vss. 72 and 73, though the latter are not so recognized by Garbe. Something like two thirds of the verses find use in Kāuç., and those uses are all in the eleventh adhyāya, the pitṛmedha and piṇḍapitṛyajña, as noted above, p. 814, end. Verse 48 constitutes no real exception. For all ritual uses, see under the verses.⌋

⌊The provenience of the material of this hymn.—Whereas in the preceding three hymns a very large or a large part of the verses are found also in RV., in this hymn