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85 takes ugrā́s in a as vocative. He takes īḑṛ́çe as a locative (= apradhṛsye saṁgrāmalakṣaṇe karmaṇi), against the testimony of the other passages where the word occurs, and supplies matsahāyās. In b, he reads (with a couple of SPP's mss. that follow him) mṛṇátas, and takes it (again against the accent) as accus. pl. Ámīmṛṇan in c he renders as an imperative. The meter of the verse (11 + 11: 12 + 13 = 47) is capable of being fitted to the description of the Anukr. ⌊11 + 10: 12 + I2 = 45⌋ by duly managing the resolutions. ⌊Aufrecht, KZ. xxvii. 219 (1885), reconstructs the vs., putting mṛḍáyata for mṛṇáta in b and reading c, d thus: ámīmṛḍan vásavo nāthitā́so agnír hí çatrū́n pratyéti vídhyan. Cf. Bloomfield, 326.—Roth gives (in his notes) mṛḍata for mṛṇata and (in his collation) yeṣām for hy eṣām, as Ppp. readings.⌋

3. The army of enemies, O bounteous one, playing the foe against us—do ye (two), O Vṛtra-slaying Indra, Agni also, burn against them.

4. Impelled, O Indra, forwards (? pravátā) by thy (two) bays—let thy thunderbolt go forth, slaughtering (pra-mṛ) the foes; smite the on-coming, the following, the fleeing (párāñc); scatter their actual intent.

5. O Indra, confound the army of our enemies; with the blast of fire, of wind, make them disappear, scattering.

6. Let Indra confound the army; let the Maruts slay with force; let Agni take away its eyes; let it go back conquered.