2. Not demons, not piçācás overcome him, for this is the first-born force of the gods; whoso bears the gold of the descendants of Dakṣa, he makes for himself long life among the living.
VS. (xxxiv. 51) has the verse, reading tád for enam and taranti for sahante in a, accenting bibhárti in c, and giving devéṣu for jivéṣu in d; and it repeats d with manuṣyèṣu instead; and the RV. khila (8, as above) follows it very nearly (but caranti in a, and dākṣāyaṇā hir- in c). The Anukr. ignores the metrical irregularities of a and b.
3. The waters' brilliancy, light, force, and strength, also the heroic powers (vīryà) of the forest trees, do we maintain in him, as in Indra Indra's powers (indriyá); this gold shall he, being capable, bear.
The comm. explains dákṣamāṇa in d by vardhamāna. Omission of the superfluous indriyā́ṇi in c would rectify the meter; the pada-text marks the division wrongly before asmín instead of after it; ⌊the Anukr. likewise reckons asmín to d and describes the pāda as one of 14 syllables!⌋.
4. With seasons of summers (? sámā), of months, we [fill] thee, with the milk of the year I fill [thee]; let Indra-and-Agni, let all the gods, approve thee, not bearing enmity.
Emendation to tvā 'ham at the end of a would rectify both meter and construction. Between c and d the pada-text wrongly resolves té 'nu into té: ánu (as again at viii. 2. 21), and the pada-mss. put the sign of pāda division before instead of after te; apparently the Anukr. makes the true division ⌊after te, accentless⌋. The comm., too, understands té. The combination -bhiṣ ṭvā is quoted as an example under Prāt. ii. 84.
The concluding anuvāka ⌊6.⌋ has again 7 hymns, with 31 verses; and the quoted Anukr. of the mss. says ekādaça co 'ttare parā syuḥ.
Some of the mss. sum the whole book up correctly as 35 hymns, 153 verses.
Here ends also the second prapāṭhaka.
