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iv. 2-

1. Up from here have stridden three—tiger, man (púruṣa), wolf; since hey! go the rivers, hey! the divine forest-tree, hey! let the foes bow.

2. By a distant (pára) road let the wolf go, by a most distant also the thief; by a distant one the toothed rope, by a distant one let the malignant hasten (ṛṣ).

3. Both thy (two) eyes and thy mouth, O tiger, we grind up; then all thy twenty claws (nakhá).

4. The tiger first of [creatures] with teeth do we grind up, upon that also the thief, then the snake, the sorcerer, then the wolf.

5. What thief shall come today, he shall go away smashed; let him