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3 where it, with i. 19-21 and sundry other hymns, is called sāṁgrāmika or 'battle-hymn,' used in rites for putting an enemy to flight; and it (or vs. 1) is apparently designated by prathamasya (as first of the sāṁgrāmika hymns) in 14. 12, where the avoidance of wounds by arrows is aimed at; it is also reckoned (14. 7, note) as belonging to the aparājita gaṇa; further, it is used, with ii. 3, in a healing ceremony (25. 6) for assuaging wounds, etc.; and, after hymn 1 has been employed in the upākarman, it and the other remaining hymns of the anuvāka are to be muttered (139. 11). The comm. ⌊p. 16, top⌋, once more, quotes it from Nakṣatra ⌊error, for Çānti, says Bloomfield⌋ Kalpa 17, 18, as applied in a mahāçānti called aparājitā.

Translated: Weber, iv. 394; Griffith, i. 3; Bloomfield, 8, 233.—Discussed: Bloomfield, AJP. vii. 467 ff. or JAOS. xiii. p. cxiii; Florenz, Bezzenberger's Beiträge, xiv. 178 ff.

1. We know the reed's father, Parjanya the much-nourishing; and we know well its mother, the earth of many aspects.

2. O bow-string, bend about us; make thyself a stone; being hard, put very far away niggards [and] haters.

3. When the kine, embracing the tree, sing the quivering dexterous (ṝ ṛbhú) reed, keep away from us, O Indra, the shaft, the missile.

4. As between both heaven and earth stands the bamboo (? téjana), so let the reed-stalk (múñja) stand between both the disease and the flux (āsrāvá).

3. Against obstruction of urine: with a reed.