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ix. 5- TS. has in iv. for d devayā́no yá uttamáḥ (in v. it agrees throughout with our text). Ppp. begins with yéna vā sah-. Vāit. quotes the verse in 29. 9, 23. ⌊MS. has yéna.⌋

18. The cooked goat, having five rice-dishes, driving off perdition, sets [one] in the heavenly (svargá) world; with it may we conquer worlds that possess suns.

19. [The goat] which one deposited with the Brahman, and which among the people (vikṣú); what scattered drops (viprúṣ) [there are] of the rice-dishes, of the goat—all that of ours, O Agni, do thou later know in the world of the well-done, at the meeting of the ways.

20. The goat verily strode out here (idám) in the beginning; this [earth] became its breast, the sky its back, the atmosphere its middle, the quarters its (two) sides, the (two) oceans its paunches;

21. Both truth and right its eyes, all truth [and] faith its breath, the virā́j its head; this verily is an unlimited offering, namely (yát) the goat with five rice-dishes.

22. An unlimited offering does he obtain, an unlimited world does he take possession of (ava-rudh), who gives a goat with five rice-dishes, with the light of sacrificial gifts.

23. He should not split its bones; he should not suck out its marrow; taking it all together, he should cause it to enter here and here.

24. This and this verily becomes its form; therewith one makes it come together; food, greatness, refreshment it yields (duh) to him who gives a goat with five rice-dishes, with the light of sacrificial gifts.

Ppp. reads for the second half-verse svadhām ūrjam akṣatiṁ maho ‘smai duhe: ya evaṁ viduṣo ‘jaṁ pañcāudanaṁ dadāti; and, as above noted, our vs. 2 then follows. The metrical description of the Anukr. (closely accordant with that of vs. 26, though