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939 Some mss. accent mātáriç- in c, and read goptrī́n in d. All these are of the superficial variety of discordant readings which swarm in this book, and have no real importance. The comm. explains his badhnān thus: trīn badhnān badhnaḥ sarvasya bandha ādhārabhūta ādityaḥ, in which he shows himself equal to the occasion after precisely his own fashion. The Anukr. takes no notice of the metrical irregularity (7 + 7: 9 + 7 = 30). ⌊Roth notes expressly that Ppp. reads vāiṣṭapān.⌋ *⌊Cf. note to 13. 8 above, and to 28. 2; also Müller's 1st quarto ed. of RV., vol. 1., preface, p. xii; and Pischel, ''Gram. der Prakrit-sprachen'', §83.⌋

5. With ghee do I sprinkle thee all over, O Agni, increasing thee with sacrificial butter; of fire, of moon, of sun, let not the wily ones damage the breath.

6. Let not the wily ones damage your breath, nor your expiration nor flame (? háras); shining, all-possessing, run ye, O gods, with what is of the gods.

7. One unites Agni with breath; the wind is combined with breath; with breath the gods generated the sun that faces all ways. ⌊See p. xxxvi, n.⌋

8. Live thou with the life-time of the life-time-makers; live as one long-lived; do not die; live with the breath of the soulful (ātmanvánt); do not come under the control of death.

9. The treasured (ni-dhā) treasure of the gods that Indra discovered by roads that the gods travel—the gold did the waters guard with triple ones; let those triple ones defend thee with the triple ones.