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xviii. 4 printed smo or smaḥ (cf. Index, p. 41 b). Moreover, he suspects that the second pitaras of 86 may be a corruption of páretās ('mortui istic vos estis'): this would be an easy corruption in nāgarī, but I do not feel that páretās offers a better antithesis to the jīvā́s of 87 (ÇÇS. manuṣyās) than does the word pitaras itself; and the latter are distinctly enough other-world beings: cf. 2. 48 (but also 49), and 1. 50, 54 above, also x. 6. 32.—Apropos of the blunder bhūyāstha: reading Dīgha Nikāya on the day of writing the above note, I observed at ix. 7, line 5, the phrase saññā uppajjanti etc., 'ideas arise,' and then in the very next sentence, ekā saññā uppajjanti, 'a single idea arise,' with plural verb-ending, albeit the ekā makes the breach of common concord most manifest and some mss. indeed read uppajjati. For the like error, see xv. 7. 3: cf. also notes xiv. 2. 59; xviii. 3. 47.⌋

⌊The MS. passage, p. 143$6$, is: eṣā́ yuṣmā́kam pitaraḥ: imā́ asmā́kam: jīvā́ vo jī́vanta[ḥ] ihá sántaḥ syāma.—The AÇS., p. 125 end, reads: etā yuṣmākam pitaraḥ: imā asmākam: jīvā vo jīvanta iha santaḥ syāma. To this, Gārgya, in his vṛtti, adds: itikārādhyāhāreṇa sūtracchedaḥ: santaḥ syāmeti mantraḥ paṭhitavyo vaḥkāraṁ varjayitvā.—The etās and imās seem to refer to svadhā́s (cf. ÇÇS. as above: yā atra pitarḥh svadhā, yuṣmākaṁ sā: ya iha pitara edhatur, asmākaṁ saḥ); and the eṣā́ of MS. appears to require correction to etā́ p. etā́ḥ.⌋

88. Thee, O Agni, would we kindle, full of light (dyumánt), O god, unwasting; as that very wondrous fuel of thine shall shine in the sky (dív), bring thou food for thy praisers.

89. The moon among the waters runs, an eagle in the sky (dív); they find not your track, O golden-rimmed lightnings: know me as such, O firmaments (ródasī).