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xix. 69- etc.; it is, of course, the waters that are meant, as the liturgical use plainly shows. In vs. 2 all authorities give úpa jīvā́ stha (p. úpa: jīvā́ḥ: stha); ⌊both editions give upajīvā́s⌋. In vs. 3 they have saṁjīvā́s (though with considerable variety of accent); most, too, accent saṁjīvyā́sam. The comm. reads upajīvyās and saṁjīvyās, which make the decidedly easier sense, 'fit to be lived on and with'; then the following clauses would mean 'may I live on you and with you.' Ppp. reads throughout stu instead of stha.

1. Live, O Indra; live, O Sūrya; live ye, O gods; may I live; may I live my whole life-time.

1. Praised by me [is] the boon-giving Veda-mother. Let them urge on the soma-hymn of the twice-born. Having given to me life-time, breath, progeny, cattle, fame, property, Vedic splendor, go ye to the brahma-world.