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iv. 24- is properly enough puraḥçakvarī, but there is no reason why it should be called in addition çakvarīgarbhā.

2. He who, having formidable arms, is repeller (? yayú) of the formidable ones (f.); who battered the strength of the Dānavas; by whom are conquered the rivers, by whom the kine—let him free us from distress.

3. He who is filler of people (carṣaṇí-), bull, heaven-finder (svarvíd); for whom the pressing-stones proclaim [his] manliness; whose is the sacrifice with seven priests, most intoxicating—let him free us from distress.

4. Whose are cows (vaçā́), bulls, oxen; for whom, the heaven-finder, sacrificial posts (sváru) are set up; for whom the bright (çukrá) [soma] purifies itself, adorned with sacred words (bráhma-)—let him free us from distress.

5. He whose enjoyment (júṣṭi) the offerers of soma desire; whom, possessed of arrows, men call on in the cattle-raid (gáviṣṭi); on whom depends song (? arká), on whom force—let him free us from distress.

6. He who was born first for the doing of deeds; of whom first the heroism was noted; by whom brandished (ud-yam) the thunderbolt went at (abhi-i) the dragon—let him free us from distress.

7. He who, controlling, leads together hosts (saṁgrāmá) for fighting; who mingles (sam-sṛj) the possessions (puṣṭá) of the two parties—I