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[ ṣaṣṭhī , in Mv ii.21.2 ( vs ): (atra kiṃ kāraṇaṃ uktaṃ yaṃ sapta kramate kramān,) na ca aṣṭa na ca ṣaṣṭhī atra āgamanaṃ śṛṇu, … why he takes seven steps, and not eight or … (?) Senart em. ṣaṣṭi, sixty , which seems to be correct; see P. Mus, Barabudur 492, 480 ; Mv i.318.10 caṅkrama-ṣaṣṭiḥ, a promenade of sixty paces . The only alternative, so far as I see, would be the unattractive one of understanding the ordinal ṣaṣṭhī in the mg. of the cardinal, six ; the sense would, to be sure, then be simple.]