^217:2 Instead of connecting kamam with dadyat, Dvivedaganga explains it by yathasakti.

^217:3 Atikram, scil. maithunaya.

^217:4 Bandhya durbhaga.

^217:5 Nishtaya, A. B.; nishthaya, Roer, Poley; the same in section 10.

^217:6 Sa tvam anganam kashayo raso 'si.

^217:7 Vishaliptasaraviddham mrigim iva.

^217:8 Madayeti is the reading of the Madhyandina text. Poley, Roer, A. and B. read madayemam amum mayiti. Anandagiri has mrigim ivamum madiyam striyam me madaya madvasam kurv ityarthah. Dvivedaganga explains madayeti.

^217:9 Rupabhramsayauvanahanibhayat.

^217:10 Agarbhini.

^218:1 Avasathyagnim eva pragvalya.

^218:2 Paskimagram dakshinagram va yatha syat tatha.

^218:3 Tisrah is left out by Roer and Poley, by A. and B.

^218:4 I have translated according to the Kanva text, as far as it could be made out. As there are four imprecations, it is but natural that tisrah should be left out in the Kanva text. It is found in the Madhyandina text, because there the imprecations are only three in number, viz. the taking away of hope and expectation, of sons and cattle, and of up and down breathing. Instead of asav iti, which is sufficient, the Madhyandina text has asav iti nama grihnati, and both Anandagiri and Dvivedaganga allow the alternative, atmanah satror va nama grihnati, though asau can really refer to the speaker only.

^218:5 Roer reads dvarena; Poley, A. and B. darena; the Madhyandinas gayaya. Sankara, according to Roer, interprets dvarena, but it seems that dvarena is used here in the singular, instead of the plural. See Paraskara Grihya-sutras I, 11.

^219:1 To be used for the ceremony described in section 14 seq.

^219:2 Kapilo varnatah pingalah pingakshah.

^220:1 Karum srapayitva.

^220:2 Name of a Gandharva, as god of love. See Rig-veda X, 85, 22. Dvivedaganga explains the verse differently, so that the last words imply, I come together with my own wife.

^220:3 Because speech is dependent on breath, as the wife is on the husband. See Khand. Up. I, 6, 1.

^220:4 Because the Sama-veda rests on the Rig-veda.

^220:5 This is a verse which is often quoted and explained. It occurs in the Atharva-veda XIV, 71, as 'amo 'ham asmi si tvam, samaham asmy rik tvam, dyaur aham prithivi tvam; tav iha sam bhavava pragam a ganayavahai.'