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xix. 49- Ppp., have at the beginning uçatī́ rā́try (a-), but the pada-mss. give rā́tri instead of rā́trī, as they should give, and as SPP's pada-text reads by emendation. What follows it the pada-mss. offer as ánu॰sāma: drā́him (or drāhím); in the saṁhitā-mss. the first word appears as ánusāma (once ánusama) or (accentless, and so making one word with -drā́him or -drā́hi) anusāma- or aṁnusāma-; and the second appears as -drā́him, -drā́hi, drā́him, drā́hím, drāhí, drā́vi, prā́him. The rest of the half-verse, tiṣṭhate mitrá iva svadhā́bhiḥ, is the same in all, including the comm. and Ppp. SPP. emends to ánu sā́ bhadrā́ ’bhí ti-, which appears to be modeled on our ánu mā bhadrā́bhir ví ti-, but is defective both in sense and in meter. The comm. gives anukṣaṇaṁ vi ti-, cutting loose entirely from the ms.-reading; his own text, according to SPP., has anusāmadrā vi ti-. Ppp., finally, has avasāna bhadrād vi ti-, which suggests the emendation uçatī́ rā́try ávasā no bhadrā́ ví tiṣṭhate etc. Our ví tiṣṭhate, at any rate, is by the support of Ppp. and the comm. put nearly beyond question.

⌊I have made some modifications in the above paragraph which I could not well indicate by the ell-brackets.—For those who do not have the Bombay ed., it may be well to give SPP's reconstructions of the verse: first, the text of the comm.: ati viçvāny arhad gambhīro varṣiṣṭham arhati çraviṣṭhā: uçatī rātry anusāmadrā vi tiṣṭhate mitra iva svadhābhih; second, the text which the comm. actually explains: ati viçvāny arhati gambhīrā varṣiṣṭham arhati çraviṣṭhā: uçatī rātry anukṣaṇaṁ vi tiṣṭhate mitra iva svadhābhiḥ; third, SPP's reading: áti viçvāny aruhad gambhīró várṣiṣṭham aruhanta çráviṣṭhāḥ: uçatī́ rā́try (p. rā́trī) ánu sā́ bhadrā́ ’bhi tiṣṭhate mitrá iva svadhā́bhiḥ.⌋

3. O desirable, welcome, well-portioned, well-born one! thou didst come, O night; mayest thou be well-willing here; save thou for us the things that are produced (jātá) for men, likewise what [are] for cattle, by prosperity ⌊puṣṭyā́⌋.

4. The eager night has taken to herself the splendor of the lion, of the stag, of the tiger, of the leopard, the horse's bottom, man's (púruṣa) roar (? māyú); many forms thou makest for thyself, shining out.

The saṁhitā-mss. accent rātry uçatī́ (p. rātri: uçatī́); SPP. emends, with us, to rā́try uçatī́; the comm. also understands rā́trī. The mss. all ⌊with trifling variations⌋