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995 3. He of great kine (?) turned unto the gods away from the Asuras, seeking greatness; to that sleep the three-and-thirty ones, having attained the sky, imparted over-lordship.

4. Not the Fathers, and not the gods, know it, whose (pl.) murmur goes about within here; in Trita Āptya did the men (nṛ́), the Ādityas, taught by Varuṇa, set sleep.

5. Of whom the evil-doers shared ⌊bhaj⌋ the cruelty, the well-doers, by non-sleep, [shared] the pure (púṇya) life-time—thou revelest in the sky (svàr) with the highest relative; thou wast born out of the mind of one practising fervor.

The translation is a merely literal rendering, and does not pretend to be an intelligent one. It implies in a, with SPP., a majority of his mss., and the comm., ábhajanta (the other readings are apacanta, abhacanta, aṣacanta; and there are varieties of accent); in b, all the saṁhitā-mss. combine duṣhṛ́to sv-, implying asvápnena; but ⌊SPP's⌋ pada-mss. ⌊and W's pada-ms. D., p.m.⌋ read svápnena; ⌊W's D. seems to be corrected to asváp- and his L. also seems to have asváp-;⌋ SPP. accepts asváp-, with the comm. Ppp. gives no help; its text is vy asya krūram abhijanta duṣkṛṇe sv-; and āpuḥ for āyuḥ at the end of b. In c, bandhúnā (read by both editions, with the mss.) ought to have been emended ⌊cf. vs. 2 a⌋ to bándhunā, as both texts emend to tapyá- from tápya-, which appears in most of the mss. At the end, SPP. has the correct jajñiṣe, with about ⌊half of his authorities, including the carefully corrected Dc.⌋ (and with one of our later ones); our jajñiṣé represents the rest, but has no reason. Ppp. has in c svarasajasi.