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xix. 1- appears also in RV.VS.TA.SV.; and the verse yád agne yā́ni kā́ni cit (xix. 64. 3) is common to RV., and to the Yajus texts, MS.K.Kap.TS.VS.; while the apratiratkaapratiratha [sic] hymn (āçúḥ çíçānaḥ: xix. 13. 2 ff.) is found in RV. and the Yajus texts just named and in SV. also.⌋

⌊Divisions of the book.—The prapāṭhaka-division is not found in this book, having ended with book xviii.; nor does any decad-division appear. The following statements refer to the hymns as printed, divided, and numbered in the Berlin edition. The book numbers 72 hymns, with 456 verses, and is divided into seven anuvākas. If the verses numbered 455, a precisely even division would give 65 to each anuvāka, and it appears that the division aims in general to make each anuvāka as nearly of that length as may be without breaking hymns: but hymn 20 is put into anuvāka 2 rather than 3, because it forms a subject-group with hymns 17-19; for a like reason the limit of anuvāka 4 is set after hymn 33 and not before it; and that of anuvāka 5, after hymn 45 and not before it. A tabular conspectus follows:

1. Together, together let the rivers flow, together the winds, together the birds; increase ye this sacrifice, O songs (gír); I make offering with an oblation of confluence.

2. This sacrifice do ye aid, O offerings (hóma); this one, ye also that flow together: increase ye this sacrifice, O songs; I make offering with an oblation of confluence.