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93 text. The comm. also describes it as employed by the Nakṣ. ⌊comm. again errs; should be Çānti—Bloomfield⌋ K. (17, 19) in a mahāçānti called ān̄girasī.

Translated: A. Kuhn, Herabkunft des Feuers etc., 1859, p. 224, or 2d ed., p. 198; Weber, xvii. 204; Grill, 21, 104; Griffith, i. 87; Bloomfield, 91, 334.

1. The male (púmāṅs) [is] born out of the male—the açvatthá forth from the khadirá; let it smite my foes, whom I hate and who [hate] me.

2. Crush them out, O açvatthá, our violent foes, O expelling one, allied with Vṛtra-slaying Indra, with Mitra, and with Varuṇa.

3. As thou, O açvatthá, didst break out [the khadirá] within the great sea, so do thou break out all these, whom I hate and who [hate] me.

4. Thou that goest about overpowering, like a bull that has overpowered—with thee here, O açvatthá, may we overpower our rivals.

5. Let perdition bind them, with unreleasable fetters of death—my foes, O açvatthá, whom I hate and who [hate] me.

6. As, O açvatthá, ascending them of the forest-trees, thou dost put them beneath thee (ádhara), so the head of my foe do thou split apart and overcome.