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xix. 56- The comm. renders abhajanta by prāpnuvanti, and asvapnena by duḥsvapnadarçanābhāvena; he regards duḥsvapna as addressed in the second half-verse, and explains svàr as equivalent to a locative (as rendered above) ⌊cf. Noun-Inflection, p. 488⌋, and bandhunā (cf. 2 a) as sṛṣṭeḥ prākkāle tvāṁ dṛṣṭavatā vidhātrā saha.

6. We know all thine attendants (?) in front; we know, O sleep, who is thine over-ruler here; protect us here with the glory of the glorious one; go thou away far off with poisons.

1. As a sixteenth, as an eighth, as a [whole] debt they bring together, so do we bring together all evil-dreaming on one who is offensive (ápriya).

2. Kings have gathered (sam-gā), debts have gathered, kuṣṭhás have gathered, sixteenths have gathered; all evil-dreaming that is in us—let us impel away evil-dreaming to him that hates us.

The pada-mss. read sáḥ: mṛṇā́ni for sám: ṛṇā́ni, and sáḥ: kalā́ḥ (the saṁhitā-mss. also sá kalā́ ag-) for sám: kalā́ḥ; SPP. follows us in emending in both places to sám, which the comm. also has. At the beginning of the second division, we have emended sám of the mss. and comm. (which SPP. follows) to sárvam. For yát (after asmā́su) the saṁhitā-mss. read yáta, and the pada-mss. yátaḥ; out yát is supported by the comm., and SPP. adopts it The comm. says that kuṣṭha is a skin-disease, symptomatic