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TRANSLATION AND NOTES. BOOK X.
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34. On the cow the gods subsist; on the cow, men also; the cow became this all, so far as the sun looks abroad.
The Anukr. takes no notice of the redundant syllable in a (read, by irregular combination, devó ’pa).
⌊Here ends the fifth anuvāka, with 2 hymns and 61 verses. The quoted Anukr. says, referring to this last hymn, catasraḥ (i.e. 4 over 30).⌋
⌊One ms. (P.) sums up the verses aright as 350.⌋
⌊Here ends the twenty-third prapāṭhaka.⌋