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xix. 53- anyat or ayat (evidently accidental and unimportant variations); Ppp. has aṅjaṅ ⌊i.e. bhuvanānyaṅjaṅ⌋; arvā́ṅ̄ is not to be accepted as at all satisfactory, much less authoritative; it is no proper antithesis to pratyán̄† in 3 c, nor construable with the accusative. The translation, for a venture, implies bhúvanā nyañján, evolving a sense for nyañján out of nyàkta 'inherent'; it may pass for what it is worth. All the mss., and SPP., read in a cakrā́n ⌊and so does Ppp.⌋; the comm. has cakrā ’nu vahati. The redundancy of syllables in d could be easily remedied either by omitting the superfluous sá (left out in the translation) or by reading īrte for īyate ⌊or by reading sé ”yate with double saṁdhi as Ppp. suggests⌋. Ppp. reads kāle sāiyyate. The comm. has in b amṛtaṁ tanv akṣaḥ. ⌊For the nú of d, the ms. of the comm. has in fact u.⌋ *⌊The comm. has in one place añjat, explained as añjan; and, in another, the ms. of the comm. has (as noted) añjan, which SPP. prints as añjat = prerayan!⌋

†⌊It is a curious fact that Whitney here anticipates and parries the very argument in favor of the Roth-Whitney emendation arvā́n̄ which Bloomfield later adduces, SBE. xlii. 684. W. may have written this in 1893 or thereabouts. Bl's translation appeared in 1897.⌋

3. A full vessel is set upon time; we indeed see it, being now manifoldly; it [is] in front of all these beings; it call they time in the highest firmament (vyòman).

4. He indeed together brought beings; he indeed together went about (pari-i) beings; being father, he became son of them; than him verily there is no other brilliancy that is higher (pára).

5. Time generated yonder sky, time also these earths; what is and what is to be stands out sent forth by time.