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xix. 58- 539 end.⌋ But the pada-text exhibits its skill in blundering: in b it reads várma: asi: vi॰adhvám (and nearly all the saṁhitā-mss. accent sīvyadhám), and in c kṛṇudhvam: mā́: ā́yasīḥ (or ayasīḥ): ádhṛṣṭā (and the saṁhitā-mss. accordingly read -dhvaṁmāy-). The comm. gives three distinct interpretations of the verse: as concerned respectively with the senses, with officiating priests, and with soldiers (indriyaparatvena rtvikparatvena yoddhṛparatvena). ⌊As to -dhvam mā-, cf. note to xviii. 2. 3.⌋

5. Of the sacrifice the eye, beginning, and face; with voice, with hearing, with mind do I make oblation; to this sacrifice, extended by the all-working one, let the gods come ⌊ā-i⌋, with favoring minds.

6. They that are priests (ṛtvíj) of the gods, and that are worshipful, for whom the oblation (havyá) is made the portion—coming to this sacrifice together with their spouses, let the gods, as many as they are (yā́vant), revel on the oblation.

1. Thou, O Agni, art protector of vows among gods (?), among mortals; thou art to be praised at the sacrifices.

The verse is RV. viii. 11. 1, and found also in VS. iv. 16; TS. i. 1. 14$4$; 2. 3$1$, and MS. i. 2. 3, everywhere without variant, except as the AV. mss. in general read in b devā́ ā́ m- ⌊three have devā́ ām-⌋; ⌊Whitney's P. and M. and SPP's S$m$. and his D$c$., p.m., have devá ā́ m-;⌋ the pada-mss. give devāḥ (two of SPP's, after it, ā॰mártyeṣu). The RV. pada-text has deváḥ; ⌊so also TS. pada-text: see Weber's note in his ed., p. 13;⌋ the translation implies devé, in the sense of devéṣu. The comm. understands devás, and SPP. also reads it by emendation.

⌊Roth, Ueber gewisse Kürzungen des Wortendes im Veda, p. 3, treats the RV. verse, with report of the comm. on RV.VS.TS.: he assumes devé: ā́ as pada-reading and understands devé as = devéṣu. Cf. daça (= daçabhis) dvādaçabhir vā ‘pi,