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991 natural count of syllables (8 + 8: 11 + 11: 11 + 12 = 61) comes three short of a full aṣṭi: ⌊the jagatī cadence of e suggests that something is missing (read sárvāṅç ca lo-?) in that pāda; and f is to be read (like 53. 2 d, with Ppp. double saṁdhi) as 11 syllables⌋.

⌊Here ends the sixth anuvāka, with 9 hymns, and with 63 verses as they are numbered by the Berlin text and summed up by certain mss.; but the Anukr. counts 9 and 5 verses (instead of 10 and 6) in hymns 47 and 54 respectively, which makes the sum 61 instead of 63.⌋

1. Night after night bringing to him without mixture, as fodder to a horse that stands, let not us, O Agni, thy neighbors, receive harm, reveling with abundance of wealth, with food (íṣ).