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xviii. 4- of the accentless asya: Weber notices the wild incongruity (absent in the TA. version) between asya in a, te in b, and asmāí in c.⌋

35. In Vāiçvānara I offer this oblation, a thousand-fold, hundred-streamed fountain (útsa); it supports (bhṛ) [our] father, grandfathers; [our] great-grandfathers it supports, swelling.

36. A thousand-streamed, hundred-streamed fountain, unexhausted, expanded upon the back of the sea, yielding refreshment, unresisting, do the Fathers wait on at their will (? svadhā́bhis).

The first half-verse stands in VS. ⌊xiii. 49⌋ TS. ⌊iv. 2. 10$18$⌋ TA. ⌊vi. 6. 1⌋ MS. ⌊ii. 7. 17, p. 102$8$⌋ as the first two pādas of a verse of which our 30 c, d above is second half; in all, the first word is imám followed in VS. MS. by sāhasrám, in TS.TA. by samudrám, before çatádh-; all of course omit the evidently intruded ákṣitam*, and end b with mádhye, VS. having before it sarirásya, and TS.TA. bhúvanasya. Some of