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521 Anukr. is, as usual in such an irregular case (10+ 12: 11 + 9 [11?] = 42), quite worthless. Ppp. omits the first pāda, reads divas for divi at the end of the second, and goes on thus: madhoṣ kaçayoṣ pṛthivīm anakṣi tāṁ dātāraṁ paçava upa jīvanti: sarve tena vo çeṣam ūrjaṁ bibharti.

21. Earth [is] the staff, atmosphere the embryo, sky the whip, lightning the snapper (? prakaçá), of gold the globule (bindú).

22. He who knows the seven honeys of the whip becomes rich in honey: the Brahman, and the king, and the milch-cow, and the draft-ox, and rice, and barley; honey the seventh.

23. Rich in honey he becomes; rich in honey becomes his provision (āhāryà); worlds rich in honey he conquers, who knows thus.

24. When it thunders in a clear sky, that is Prajāpati himself becoming manifest to his creatures; therefore I stand with the sacred cord over the right shoulder, saying: O Prajāpati, take notice (anu-budh) of me: creatures [take notice], Prajāpati takes notice of him who knows thus.