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933 19. To them of three verses, hail!

20. To them of one verse, hail!

21. To the petty ones, hail!

22. To them of a half-verse, hail!

23. To the ruddy ones (rohita), hail!

24. To the two Sūryās, hail!

25. To the two Vrātyas, hail!

26. To the two of Prajāpati, hail!

27. To the viṣāsahí, hail!

28. To them of good omen (man̄galiká), hail!

This, from its position, ought to signify book xviii.; the comm. says nothing about it; his text reads mān̄g-. ⌊That the funeral book is held to be most inauspicious appears from SPP's preface to his ed., vol. i., p. 4, p. 5, and especially p. 2. To call the book auspicious is a euphemism such as is familiar in the case of the dreadful god Çiva.⌋

One of our mss. (I.) inserts after this verse five others which do not appear to occur elsewhere, as SPP. does not mention them: nákṣatrakalpāya svā́hā. 29. vāítānakalpāya svā́hā. 30. çāntikalpāya svā́hā. 31. an̄girasakalpāya svā́hā. 32. sā́ṁhitāvidhaye