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TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK XIII.
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These two verses are identical with vss. 48, 49, above ⌊and are therefore not defined by the Anukr.⌋.

⌊The quotations from the Old Anukr., given piecemeal for this paryāya-sūkta at the end of each paryāya, may here be given together: I. trayodaça; II. aṣṭāu ca; III. tataḥ paraḥ sapta; IV. saptadaça; V. ṣaṭ ca bodhyāḥ; VI. ṣaṣṭaḥ pañcaka ucyate.—They are given by SPP. in his "Critical Notice," vol. i., p. 21, with the introductory words, caturthasyā ’vasānāni vakṣyamāṇāni tāni çṛṇu.⌋

⌊In paryāya V., vss. 47, 50, and 51 have the refrain; and in VI., vss. 52, 53, and 54 have it: these verses are styled gaṇāvasānarcaḥ, and the rest avasānarcaḥ (as was already noted above, p. 472). But since none of the former is divided in two by an avasāna-mark, the distinction does not affect the sums of the "ṛcaḥ of both kinds," which are (as just stated) 3 + 3 for V. and 3 + 2 for VI.⌋

⌊Here ends the fourth anuvāka, consisting of 1 paryāya-sūkta with 6 paryāyas and 56 verses.⌋

⌊Some mss. reckon up the hymns as 20 (that is 14 of the decad-divisions of our hymns 1-3, plus 6 paryāyas of our hymn 4) and the verses as 188.⌋

⌊Here ends the twenty-eighth prapāṭhaka.⌋