16. The last foot is: 'Make our glory high as heaven over heaven.' Thus wherever Brahmanic speech is uttered, there his glory will be, when he who knows this finishes with that verse. Therefore let a man who knows this, finish (the Nishkevalya) with that verse.

Footnotes

^194:1 He repeats the Sudadohas verse no more. Comm.

^194:2 Sentences like indro devah somam pibatu.

^195:1 According to the Prakriti of the Agnishtoma they ought to be all Trishtubhs. Comm.

^195:2 These hymns occur in the eighty Brihati tristichs.

^195:3 From the Samhita, which consists of ten thousand verses. Comm.

^195:4 Rv. X, 178. Tarksha Garuda being the deity of the hymn, it is called Tarkshya.

^195:5 Cf. I, 5, 3, 13

^196:1 The Ekapada forms the last metre in this ceremony.

^196:2 The first and last half-verses of the hymn are not to be intertwined. Of the remaining fourteen half-verses he joins, for instance, the fourth foot of the first verse with the second foot of the second verse, and so on. Comm.

^196:3 Because nothing more follows. Comm.

^196:4 Rv. VII, 22, 1-6.

^196:5 Rv. VII, 24.

^196:6 The last day is the udayaniyatiratra. Comm.