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xix. 60- and the beginning of the next. ⌊MGS. i. 4. 4 may be compared.⌋ Nearly all the saṁhitā-mss. read āsyán ⌊like those of Kāuç.⌋ násoḥ; ⌊and the pada-reading is āsyám: násoḥ⌋. Further on, the mss. read akṣóḥ or akṣyoḥ (one of ours and one of SPP's give akṣṇóḥ; our text gives akṣṇóḥ, but it should be akṣyóḥ, as everywhere else in the Atharvan, and as in the parallel texts); yet further, ápalitā kéçā ⌊or keçā́⌋ çóṇaditā báha (or váha) bā́hvor bálam. SPP. follows our emendations (even akṣṇós) throughout; except that he very properly corrects our bāhvòs to bāhvós. Instead of áçoṇā dántāḥ the minor Pet. Lex. suggests áçīrṇā d-, which is decidedly preferable, and is implied in the translation.

2. Force in my thighs, speed in my calves, firm standing in my feet, all things of mine uninjured, myself not down-fallen.

1. A body together with my body. ⌊...⌋ May I attain all my life-time. Sit thou on what is pleasant; fill thyself full, cleansing thyself in heaven (svargá).