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xviii. 4- AV. corruption, of both sense and meter, in b, pratárītā uṣ-, supported by the pada-reading pra॰tárītāḥ, is very strange; of our mss., only three (O.K., supported by Op. -tā: uṣ-) have the correct -to ’ṣ-; of SPP's, according to his account, about half support -to ’ṣ-, and he accordingly admits that reading into his text; we ought to have done the same by emendation. For hā́rdim āviçán (p. ā॰viçán) man-, the comm. reads hārdima...aviçat...mau-.⌋ What right the verse has here (or vs. 60, coming from the same RV. hymn) does not appear; neither Kāuç. nor the comm. uses it in the ritual; but the latter says, as if by way of excuse, that, as the Fathers enjoy the fruit of the soma-sacrifices which they have offered, soma is praised in the ceremonies for the Fathers. He explains the 'rivers' in c as the vasatīvarī waters. ⌊He says, p. 224$23$, vṛṣā matīnām ityādīnāṁ tisṛṇām (vss. 58, 59, 60) pitṛmedha eva kāṇḍokto viniyogo ‘nusaṁdheyaḥ, which is not clear to me: should it be pitṛmedhakāṇḍa evokto?⌋

59. Let thy sparkling (? tveṣá) smoke cover, being in the sky, extended bright; for thou, O purifier, shinest like the sun with luster, with beauty (kṛpā́).

60. Soma (índu) verily goes forward to Indra's rendezvous; the comrade does not violate (pra-mī) the comrade's agreements; thou rushest to join, as a male after females—soma, in the jar, by a road of a hundred tracks.

61. They have eaten; they have revelled ⌊surely⌋; they have shaken off (áva) those that are dear; having own brightness (svábhānu), they have praised; inspired, youngest, we implore.

The verse corresponds to RV. i. 82. 2 a-d, and is found also in other texts: SV. i. 415; VS. iii. 51; TS. in i. 8. 5$2$; MS. in i. 10. 3. All these agree in reading in c priyā́s for priyā́n, and, for d, víprā náviṣṭhayā matī́; and they add a fifth pāda, a refrain, having nothing to do with the meaning of the verse. A majority of the AV.