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957 addressed to Agni.⌋ Under 2 c, d and vss. 3 and 4, he speaks of the thing addressed simply as a padārtha, 'a substance,' not presuming to define what it is: an unusual restraint on his part.

3. Unto refreshment thee, unto strength thee, unto force, unto power thee, unto superiority thee do I carry about, unto the wearing of royalty for a hundred autumns.

4. Thee with the seasons, with them of the seasons; thee unto lifetime, unto splendor; with the brilliancy of the year—with that we make [thee] cheek by jowl.

Found also in Pāipp. xix. Used, according to the comm. (together with hymn 39), by Pariç. 4. 4, in the ceremony of a king's entrance into his sleeping-house, to the accompaniment of incense of kuṣṭha and guggulu.

⌊With regard to the name of the latter substance, there is a question as to its spelling, whether with -lg- or with -gg-; and a second as to its accent, whether on the first syllable or on the last. As to the first question, the mss. are here, as elsewhere, quite at variance: see below. As to the second, the proper accent seems to be proparoxytone: so TS. at vi. 2. 8$6$, gúlgulu, nominative; and above, at ii. 36. 7, where the word is nom., both W's and SPP's authorities agree in accenting the first syllable. In this, hymn, however, all of W's and of SPP's authorities agree in vs. 1 in accenting the last syllable,