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537 the real construction of the verses is very different) implies the artificial division of the refrain (as in vs. 28 and other verses below) into two pādas, of 7 and 9 syllables, and counts 46 syllables in all; the natural number is 45 (12 + 8: 10 + 15 = 45).

25. Five gold ornaments (rukmá), five new garments, five milch-cows milking his desire come to be his who gives a goat with etc. etc.

26. Five gold ornaments become light for him; his garments become a defense for his body, he attains the heavenly (svargá) world, who gives a goat with etc. etc.

27. Whoever (fem.) having gained a former husband, then gains another later one—if (ca) they (dual) shall give a goat with five rice-dishes, they shall not be separated.

28. Her later husband comes to have the same world with his remarried spouse who (masc.) gives a goat with five rice-dishes, with the light of sacrificial gifts.

29. A milch-cow having one calf after another, a draft-ox, a pillow, a garment, gold, having given, those go to the highest heaven (dív).

30. Self, father, son, grandson, grandfather, wife, generatrix, mother, those who are dear—them I call upon.

31. Whoever knows the season "torrid" (nāídāgha) by name—that verily is the season "torrid" by name, namely (yát) the goat with five rice-dishes; he indeed burns out the fortune of his unfriendly foe (bhrā́tṛvya), he thrives (bhū) by himself, who gives a goat with five rice-dishes, with the light of sacrificial gifts.

In this and the following verses the mss. read nā́ma rtúm etc. throughout. The natural division is into four pādas instead of seven, and ⌊the paragraph, read as prose,