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929 SPP's authorities appear all (except one pada-ms. -tī) to read at the end jágatyāi; ours vary between -tī, -tye, -tyāi, and -tyāu. The text of the comm. reads pan̄kti (instead of -tis), and, either with reason or on account of his usual disregard of accent, he takes the whole verse as a single compound word in the dative case, explaining it to mean gāyatryāi svāhā, uṣṇihe svāhā, etc., and declaring it thus to contain seven mantras; and SPP. thinks this to be "doubtless" the original character of the line; it would be safer to say "perhaps," or "possibly," since the separate accentuation, the nominative form pan̄ktís, and the division by the Anukr. into two pādas (in the pada-mss., after anuṣṭúp) all speak against it. The mss. accent triṣṭúb jágatyāi.

1. With the first five anuvākás of the Ān̄girasas, hail!

2. To the sixth, hail!

3. To the seventh-and-eighth, hail!

4. To the black claws, hail!

5. To the green ones, hail!

6. To the petty ones, hail!

7. To them of the paryāyas, hail!

8. To the first conchs, hail!

9. To the second conchs, hail!

10. To the third conchs, hail!

11. To the next to the last ones, hail!

12. To the last ones, hail!

13. To the further ones, hail!