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975 yoyavad, and, in b, ni miṣate rejati; its c is wholly corrupt. The comm. connects na yoyuvat with what follows, and explains it thus: na vibhajamānaṁ vibhaktaṁ nā ”sīt kiṁ tu viçvam ekākāram evā ’bhūt. The RV. khila, in vs. 4, has pāda e, twice repeated.

3. The men-watching lookers that are thine, O night, ninety [and] nine—eighty are they [and] eight, also seven [and] seventy of thine;—

4. And sixty and six, O wealthy one; fifty [and] five, O pleasant one; four and forty, three and thirty, O mighty (vājín) one;—

5. And two of thine and twenty of thine, O night; eleven the least (avamá)—with those protectors today do thou protect us, O daughter of the sky.

6. Let no demon, [no] mischief-plotter master us; let no evil-plotter master us; let no thief today master our kine, nor a wolf our sheep;—

The mss. have at the beginning rákṣā (p. rákṣa), as 2d sing, imperative, and pāda d of RV. vi. 71. 3 (the verse is found also in VS. ⌊xxxiii. 69⌋ TS. ⌊i. 4. 24$1$⌋ TB. ⌊ii.4. 4$7$⌋ MS. ⌊i. 3. 27⌋) gives the same, ⌊as does RV. vi. 75. 10 d⌋. The translation follows our conjectured emendation, which, in view of the implausibility of the impv. rákṣa standing so alone, has a right to consideration. Ppp. reads mākir ṇo a-.

The comm. reckons our 6 a, b as a whole verse ⌊his 6⌋; our 6 c, d and 7 a, b as his vs. 7; our 7 c, d and 8 a, b as his vs. 8; our 8 c, d and 9 a, b as his vs. 9; and our 9 c, d and 10 as his vs. 10; thus making the sixth verse instead of the tenth to consist of two padas only, while yet counting ten verses in the hymn. SPP., on the other hand ⌊see his Critical Notice in vol. i., p. 24⌋, counts vs. 6 as our edition does, but adds our 8 a, b to our vs. 7 to form his vs. 7, thus making it of six pādas; and then counts our 8 c, d and 9 a, b as his vs. 8, and our 9 c, d and 10 as his vs. 9. This is in accordance with