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xix. 57- explains by tiraskuru. All the mss. give pípāruṁ ⌊P.M.: píy-⌋ vápur ⌊or vápu⌋ yád etc., with not even a pāda-division after vápus; such a division was due in our text, however, after nīnāhám. ⌊The Anukr. seems to intend to count the verse (taṁ tvā to gṛhe) as 9 + 9 + 7 + 13 (reading vapa): 8 + 8 = 54.⌋

5. What evil-dreaming is in us, what in our kine, and what in our house, that let him who is not of us, the god-reviler, the mocker, put on like a necklace (niṣká).

6. Having measured off nine cubits, forth from that do we divide off to him who hates us all our evil-dreaming.

1. The swiftness of ghee evenly always increasing the year with oblation—be our hearing, sight, breath unsevered; unsevered be we from life-time, from splendor.

The translation implies in a samanā́ sadāí ’vá. ⌊This last may be a slip for sádāivá, p. sádā: evá; the Berlin text and the Index imply sádeva, p. sádā॰iva.⌋ Five authorities give samanā́ (so in p.); five or six, samanā́ḥ; the rest samanāḥ or sámanāḥ, or else samānā́ḥ or samānā́ or finally sámanā; SPP. accepts the last, from only two mss.; the comm. reads samanāḥ, and explains it as samānamanaskā. After it the mss. read sádevāḥ (p. sá॰devāḥ), but the comm. and his text sadevā, and SPP. follows these, accenting sádevā. Ppp. has yūtis sumanās sudevās (s-). The comm. says that, since