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TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK X.
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A number of our mss. (I.O.R.D.) read vājínam in c. ⌊So do the great majority of SPP's, and he adopts it in his text. But four of his read vā́jinam.⌋ In this batch of verses (11-17) Ppp. has sundry unimportant exchanges and variants; the details are not given.


12. What amulet Brihaspati bound on for the swift wind, with that amulet the Açvins defend this plowing (kṛṣí); it yields for the two physicians greatness, more and more etc. etc.

13. What amulet Brihaspati bound on for the swift wind, Savitar, bearing that amulet, conquered with it this heaven (svàr); it yields to him pleasantness (sūnṛ́tā), more and more etc. etc.

14. What amulet Brihaspati bound on for the swift wind, bearing that amulet the waters run always unexhausted; it yields to them immortality (amṛ́ta), more and more etc. etc.

15. What amulet Brihaspati bound on for the swift wind, that healthful amulet king Varuṇa fastened on; it yields to him truth, more and more etc. etc.

16. What amulet Brihaspati bound on for the swift wind, bearing that amulet, the gods conquered by fight all worlds; it yields to them conquest, more and more etc. etc.

The pada-text resolves yudhā́jayan erroneously into yudhā́ ájayan (instead of aj-).


17. What amulet Brihaspati bound on for the swift wind, that healthful amulet here the deities fastened on; it yields to them everything, more and more etc. etc.

Part of our mss. (Bp.P.W.I.D.K.) ⌊and a great majority of SPP's⌋ read amuñcata in d. ⌊The error has doubtless crept in by confusion with the oft repeated abadhnata below and perhaps with the amuñcata of vs. 15. Cf. my note to vi. 74. 2.⌋


18. The seasons bound it on; they of the seasons bound it on; the year, having bound it on, defends all existence.

As noted above, this verse and the one following are wanting in Ppp.


19. The intermediate quarters bound on; the directions bound it on; the amulet created by Prajāpati hath made my haters beneath me (ádhard).

20. The Atharvans bound on; the descendants of Atharvan bound on; allied (medín) with them, the An̄girases split the strongholds of the barbarians; with it do thou slay thy haters.

21. Dhātar fastened it on; he disposed (vi-kḷp) [all] existence; with it do thou slay thy haters.

Ppp. reads in b subhūtāny akalpayat.


22. What [amulet] Brihaspati bound on for the gods, a destruction of Asuras—that amulet hath come here to me, together with sap, with splendor.