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209 attempt at emendation) reads -dā́vān; -dā́vā, as nom. of -dā́van, might be an improvement; the comm. reads -davām, viewing it as gen. pl. of prāṇa-dū, from dū 'burn,' and he explains it as "moribund" (mumūrṣu: prāṇāir jigamiṣubhiḥ paritāpyante)!

6. From which, when cooked, the immortal (amṛ́ta) came into being; which was the over-lord of the gāyatrī́; in which are deposited the Vedas of all forms—by that rice-mess let me overpass death.

7. I beat down the hater, the god-insulter; what rivals are mine, let them be [driven] away; I cook the all-conquering bráhman-rice-mess; let the gods hear me who am full of faith.

1. Them let him of real force burn forth—Agni Vāiçvānara, the bull; whoso shall abuse and seek to harm us, likewise whoso shall play the niggard toward us.

2. Whoso shall seek to harm us not seeking to harm, and whoso seeks to harm us seeking to harm—in the two tusks of Agni Vāiçvānara do I set him.

3. They who hunt in assent (? āgará), in counter-clamor (? pratikroçá), on new-moon [day], the flesh-eating ones, seeking to harm others—all those I overpower with power.

The obscure words āgará and pratikroçá are here translated mechanically, according to their surface etymology. The comm. gets the former from gṛ or gir 'swallow,' and defines it as yuddharan̄ga, because samantād bhajyate māṅsaçoṇitādikam atra; the latter is pratikūlāiḥ çatrubhiḥ kṛta ākroçe; while mṛgayante means "desire to