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993 eaten,' paçcād bhakṣottarakālaṁ dīptirahitāya, bhakṣitaṁ jarayitum asamarthāya. He seems to connect a-..-daghvan (= dīptirahita) with dah; but BR. and W., with Sāyaṇa on RV., derive it from dagh: cf. RV. i. 123. 5 c; vii. 56. 21 b.⌋ †⌊Cf. SPP's notes to xviii. 4. 48; xix. 32. 10; 48. 1; 56. 3.⌋

6. O thou of the assembly, protect my assembly (sabhā́), and [them] who are of the assembly, sitters in the assembly; having much invoked thee, O Indra, may they attain their whole life-time.

7. Day after day taking tribute to thee, O Agni, as fodder to a horse that stands [, let not us, O Agni, thy neighbors, receive harm, reveling with abundance of wealth, with food (íṣ)].

Found also in Pāipp. iii. The comm. quotes no authority as to the viniyoga, but points out that the hymn is shown by its content to belong to the ceremony for getting rid of duḥsvapna 'evil-dreaming.' He holds, namely, throughout the hymn, that svápna means duḥsvapna (in the Atharvan always duṣvápnya); and the language is too obscure to show clearly whether he is right or not; the probability is certainly against him, because elsewhere (e.g. in the next hymn), when evil-dreaming is intended, its own name is freely used, and in xvi. 5 svapna is contrasted with duṣvapnya. ⌊As in the case of hymns 53 and 54, the Anukr. suggests that the hymns 56 and 57 are only two divided parts of one group of 11 verses; and the suggestion is reinforced by the juxtaposition