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4. Let the sorceress eat [her own] son, sister, and daughter (? naptī́); then let the horrid-haired sorceresses mutually destroy (vi-han) one another; let the hags (arāyī́) be shattered asunder.

1. With an over-rolling amulet (maṇí), wherewith Indra increased—therewith, O Brahmaṇaspati, make us increase unto royalty (rāṣṭrá).

2. Rolling over our rivals, over them that are niggards to us, do thou trample on him who fights—on whoever abuses (durasy-) us.

3. Thee hath god Savitar, hath Soma made to increase, thee have all existences (bhūtá) [made to increase], that thou mayest be over-rolling.

4. The over-rolling, overcoming, rival-destroying amulet be bound upon me unto royalty, unto the perishing (parābhū́) of rivals.

The verse is wanting in both RV. and Ppp. Its excision, with the following verse