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149 go by the falling-off (apadhvaṅsá) of roads; let Indra smite him with the thunderbolt.

6. Ruined (mūrṇá) [are] the teeth of the beast (mṛgá); crushed in also [are its] ribs; disappearing be for thee the godhā́; downward go (ayat) the lurking (? çaçayú) beast.

7. What thou contractest (sam-yam) mayest thou not protract (vi-yam); mayest thou protract what thou dost not contract; Indra-born, soma-born art thou, an Atharvan tiger-crusher (-jámbhana).

1. Thee that the Gandharva dug for Varuṇa whose virility (? -bhráj) was dead, thee here do we dig, a penis-erecting herb.