6. O thou of the assembly, protect my assembly (sabhā́), and [them] who are of the assembly, sitters in the assembly; having much invoked thee, O Indra, may they attain their whole life-time.
The translation is to be taken simply for what it is worth, as it does not follow the mss., nor either printed text. At the beginning, the mss. ⌊except several of W's, which have the impossible sabhyá⌋, SPP., and the comm., read sabhyás, which might well enough have been left by us unchanged, save for accent (viii. 10. 5 sábhyas). But the mss. read sabhyás again later ⌊save two of W's, which have sabhyā́s⌋, this time SPP. emends to sabhyā́s (should be sábhyās, with us?), since the comm. has this. In c, the mss. in general give tvám indrā (or índrā) puruhūtya (p. puru॰hūtya); the comm's text offers tvām ⌊his exposition: tvam⌋ indra puruhūta; and SPP. adopts tvám indrā (p. indra) puruhūta; our conjecture, tváyé ’d gā́ḥ puruhūta, seems too violent, and the translation implies tvā́m indra purū́huya, with açnavan at the end, while the mss., and SPP., have açnavat (the comm. has the same, unblushingly explaining it as = prāpaya, a mere substitution of one person for another!), and our text emended to -vam, an ungrammatical but not wholly unprecedented form. ⌊The London ms. of the Anukr. adds as the pratīka of its vs. 6 tvam indrā puruhūtye ’ti (our 6 c: note the reading), but gives no metrical definition: the Berlin ms. does not even give the pratīka.⌋
7. Day after day taking tribute to thee, O Agni, as fodder to a horse that stands [, let not us, O Agni, thy neighbors, receive harm, reveling with abundance of wealth, with food (íṣ)].
None of the mss. have the second half-verse; it was added because it seemed called for by the first half, as in vss. 1 and 2. That the comm. and part of the mss., and so also SPP., in agreement with the Anukr., make only six verses in the hymn, was explained above under vs. 5. A majority of the mss. accent bálim in a (including all those used by us before publication), and so the error has got into our text; SPP. has correctly balím; some leave hárantas without accent; the comm. and a ms. or two have ítye for ít te (= prāptavye gṛhe vartamānāyā ’gnaye, comm.). All the mss. have in b jātám instead of ghāsám; but the comm. has the latter, and it is therefore read in SPP's text as well as in ours.
56. To sleep (or dream).
[Yama.—ṣaṭkam. dāuṣvapnyam. trāiṣṭubham.]
