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iii. 2-

1. Let Agni our messenger, knowing, go against [them], burning against the imprecator, the niggard; let him confound the intents of our adversaries; and may Jātavedas make them handless.

2. Agni here hath confounded the intents that are in your heart; let him blow (dham) you away from [our] home; let him blow you forth in every direction.

3. O Indra! confounding [their] intents, move hitherward with [their] design (ā́kūti); with the blast of fire, of wind, make them disappear, scattering.

4. Go asunder, ye designs of them; also, ye intents, be confounded; also what is today in their heart, that smite thou out from them.

5. Confounding the intents of those yonder, seizing their limbs, O Apvā, go away; go forth against [them]; consume [them] in their hearts with pangs (çóka); pierce the enemies with seizure (grā́hi), the foes with darkness.

The verse is RV. x. 103. 12, which reads in a cittám pratilobháyantī, and, for d, andhéna ’mítrās támasā sacantām; and SV. (ii. 1211) and VS. (xvii. 44) agree with RV. Both pada-texts give in b gṛhāṇá, as impv.; but the word is translated above (in accordance with Grassmann's suggestion) as aor. pple. fem. gṛhāṇā́, because this combines so much better with the following páre ’hi. A number of the saṁhitā-mss.