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iv. 36- injure us," and amāvāsye "at midnight of a day of new moon"; he has no suspicion of any connection with the doings at an eclipse, as half suggested by Grill. The line is quite unintelligible, and very probably of corrupt text. Most of the pada-mss. have the false accent prati॰kroçè. The comm. reads in c dipsanti for -tas.

4. I overpower the piçācás with power; I take to myself their property; I slay all the abusers; let my design be successful.

5. The gods that hasten (hās) with him—they measure speed with the sun—with those cattle (paçú) that are in the streams, in the mountains, I am in concord.

6. I am a vexer (tápana) of the piçācás, as a tiger of them that have kine; like dogs on seeing a lion, they do not find a hiding-place (nyáñcana).

7. I cannot [bear] with piçācás, nor with thieves, nor with savages (? vanargú); the piçācás disappear from that village which I enter.

8. Whatever village this formidable power of mine enters, from that the piçācás disappear; [there] they devise not evil.

9. They who anger me, making a noise, as flies an elephant—them I think ill off, like mites (?) on a man (jána).

The comm. (followed by a couple of SPP's authorities) has lipitās (= upadigdhāḥ saṁkrāntāḥ) at end of a; the pada-mss. read lapitā́, which SPP. in his pada-text emends to -tā́ḥ; but, as the participle in ta from such a root can hardly have an active sense, lapitvā́ would doubtless be a better alteration; the redundancy of a syllable, to be sure, would suggest deeper changes. Álpaçayūn in d, literally 'petty liers,' is conjecturally rendered, in accordance with the comm. (parimāṇato ‘lpakāyāḥ çayanasvabhāvāḥ saṁcārākṣamāḥ kīṭāḥ). SPP. reads dúrhitān j- (instead of -tāṅ or -tāñ ⌊see