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45 edition as well as ours properly emends to viḑḑhí. ⌊My copy of the printed text reads viḑhḑhí; but Whitney's Index Verborum and his Roots, Verb-forms, etc. have viḑḑhí, under viṣ.⌋ The comm. reads vṛḑḑhi, explaining it by vardhaya! The second half-verse is rather more altered in its AV. version; in AÇS. (as vs. 4), with the interpolations, it runs thus: çrudhī havaṁ na indro na giro juṣasva vajrī na: indra sayugbhir didyun na matsvā madāya mahe raṇāya. Ppp. has only this half-verse (without the interpolations), reading thus: çruti hava me kiro juṣasya indrasya gubhir matsa madāya mahe raṇāya. The Anukr. would doubtless have us divide 10 + 13: 10 + 13 = 46 syllables. ⌊As to viḑhḑhí, see notes to Prāt. i. 94. Accent of mátsva, Gram. §628.⌋

We may conjecture that the hymn originally ended here, as one of five verses; the appended three verses that follow are of a wholly other character. AÇS. adds one more verse, which is RV. i. 70. 11, with similar interpolations after each of its four five-syllabled pādas.

5. Now will I proclaim the heroisms of Indra, which first he of the thunderbolt (vajrín) did; he slew the dragon (áhi); he penetrated to the waters; he split ⌊forth⌋ the bellies (vakṣáṇā) of the mountains.

6. He slew the dragon that had resorted (çri) to the mountain; Tvashṭar fashioned for him the whizzing (?) thunderbolt; like lowing kine, flowing (syand), at once the waters went down to the ocean.

7. Acting like a bull, he chose the soma; he drank of the pressed [draught] in the tríkadrukas; the bounteous one (maghávan) took his missile thunderbolt; he slew that first-born of dragons.

Found in Pāipp. iii.; also in VS. (xxvii. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6), TS. (iv. i. 7), and MS.(ii. 12. 5). Used by Kāuç., with vii. 82, in a kāmya rite for success (sampad, 59. 15); and also, in