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xix. 49- d, e: it is not clear just how much of the reading is to be assigned to c⌋ rātri hīrcāna sadamātasteno anvavidyate. Our emendation is fairly acceptable; but the hí ⌊which, with the imperative, hardly needs a separate word in translation⌋ requires that we accent anutápa. For our yáthā, in d and e, the mss. and SPP. give the first time yás and the second time yát; the comm. both times yas; the meter and sense alike call for our emendation. Ppp. has for both pādas only ta steno anv avidyate, ⌊which might (see above) be understood as atas steno etc.⌋.

8. Excellent art thou, O night, like a decorated bowl; thou bearest [as] maiden the whole form of kine; full of eyes, eager, [thou showest] me wondrous forms; thou hast put on (prati-muc) the stars of heaven (divyá).

9. What thief shall come today, [what] malicious mortal villain, may night, going to meet him, smite away the neck, ⌊away⌋ the head of him;—