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3. May ye, issue (nápāt) of the height, sun-skinned Maruts, yield us breadthful protection.

4. Do ye advance [us], be gracious; be thou gracious to our selves (tanū́), show kindness (máyas) to our offspring (toká).

1. Yonder on the further shore are she-adders, thrice seven, out of their sloughs (-jarā́yu); with the sloughs of them do we wrap up (ápi vyā) the (two) eyes of the malignant waylayer.

2. Let the cutting one (kṛt) go asunder, she who bears as it were a club (pínăka); asunder [go] the mind of her that returns to life (punarbhú); unsuccessful [are] the malignant ones.

Ppp. has no variants to cast light on this very obscure verse; it adds at the end ape 'taṣ paripanthino 'po 'ghāyur arṣatu. The comm. reads punarbhavā in c; he