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i. 27- supplies "the array (senā) of our enemies" as the missing noun in the verse, and explains the epithet as "reassembling after dispersal." He paraphrases kṛntatī́ with chindatī. ⌊SPP's pada-reading is punaḥ॰bhúvāḥ, against Index Verborum, p. 184 (corrected p. 383), and against ''Skt. Gr. §352 a, which should be corrected by p. 411 of Lanman's Noun-Inflection.''⌋

3. The many have not been able together; the few have not ventured on [it]; like the sprouts (? ádga) of a bamboo (veṇú) round about, unsuccessful [are] the malignant ones.

4. Go forward, ye (two) feet; kick (sphur) forward; carry to the houses of the bestower (pṛ); let Indrāṇī go first, unscathed, unrobbed, in front.

1. Hither hath come forth god Agni, demon-slayer, disease-expeller, burning away deceivers, sorcerers, kimīdíns.

2. Burn against the sorcerers, against the kimīdíns, O god; burn up the sorceresses that meet thee, O black-tracked one.

3. She that hath cursed with cursing, that hath taken malignity as her root (? mū́ra), that hath seized on [our] young to take its sap—let her eat [her own] offspring.