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985 with less alteration of the original text than our version requires. Ppp. is wholly corrupt: yathed yasmā nitājaya yathed anyān upāyatī; but the last pāda favors SPP's conjecture.

7. Unto the dawn, O night, do thou commit us all, free from guilt; may the dawn bestow (ā-bhaj) us on the day, the day on thee, O shining one.

1. Unrepelled (? áyuta) am I, unrepelled my soul, unrepelled my sight, unrepelled my hearing, unrepelled my breath, unrepelled my expiration, unrepelled my out-breathing, unrepelled the whole of me.

2. In the impulse of the heavenly impeller (savitṛ́), with the arms of the Açvins, with the hands of Pūshan, I, impelled, take hold of thee.

Found also in Pāipp. i. Used* in Kāuç. 6. 37, with xix. 59, at the very end of the sections on the parvan-ceremony (hence perhaps a later addition?), to appease the fuel, in case there has been an omission of the due ceremony; again, in 45. 17 (with iii. 29. 7; vi. 71; vii. 67), after the end of the vaçācamana ceremony (also here a later addition?), to accompany the acceptance of something; once more, in 68. 29, in the savayajñas, with the acceptance of the sacrificial gifts (? sadakṣiṇam) and the Paddhati (note to