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911 p. 95 (cf. p. 26), gives the verses that are to be repeated: I give them as he has printed them at MP. i. 13. 5-6: anuhavám parihavám parīvadám parikṣapám: dúsvapnaṁ (should be -niaṁ) dúruditaṁ tád dviṣádbhyo diçāmy ahám: ánuhūtam párihūtaṁ çakunāir yád açākunám: mṛgásya sṛtám akṣṇáyā tád etc. This passage and AV. x. 3. 6 stand in close rapport with our vss. 3-4 here.⌋

* ⌊As for the readings parichavam and chavam as against parikṣavam and kṣavam (4 b, 5 a, b), the former are avouched by a large minority of SPP's authorities and they prevail also in the mss. first collated by Whitney: and so Ppp. has paricchava for parikṣava of our x. 3. 6. The forms with ch appear to be allowable Prākritisms, like uchantu = ukṣantu at iii. 12. 4: cf. rchara = rtsara at x. 9. 23 and my note; and uccase = ucyase at xii. 4. 4.—For sneezing as an omen, see Henry C. Warren, On superstitious customs connected with sneezing, JAOS. xiii. = PAOS. May, 1885, p. xvii-xx. He quotes Jātaka, ii., p. 15 ff. etc., and Whitney adds JB. ii. 155.⌋

5. [Drive] away evil sneezing about; may we enjoy (bhaj) propitious (púṇya) sneezing; let the evil-nosed jackal and púṇyaga urinate upon [it] for thee.

6. These (fem.), O Brahmaṇaspati, that go dispersing upon the wind—do thou, O Indra, making them come together, make them most propitious for me.

7. Let well-being be ours; let fearlessness be ours; homage be to day-and-night.