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v. 3-

7. Ye three goddesses, grant (yam) us great protection, what is prosperous (puṣṭá) for our progeny and for ourselves (tanū́); let us not be deserted (hā) by progeny nor selves; let us not be made subject to the hater, O king Soma.

8. Let the bull (mahiṣá) of wide expanse grant us protection, having much food (-kṣú), [he] the much-invoked in this invocation; do thou be gracious unto our progeny, O thou of the bay horses; O Indra, harm us not, do not abandon us.

9. The Creator (dhātár), the disposer (vidhātár), he who is lord of being, god Savitar, overpowerer of hostile plotters, the Ādityas, the Rudras, both the Açvins—let the gods protect the sacrificer from perdition (nirṛthá).

10. They that are our rivals—away be they; with Indra and Agni do we beat (bādh) them down; the Ādityas, the Rudras, sky-reaching (? uparispṛ́ç), have made our over-king a stern corrector.

The other texts have tā́n for enān at end of b, and akran at end of d, and, for c, vásavo rudrā́ ādityā́ uparispṛ́çam mā, which makes better sense; they also accent céttāram in d. And VS., which also has the verse (xxxiv. 46), agrees with them throughout. Ppp. presents instead a verse which is mostly found at TB. ii. 4. 3$2$, next before the verse corresponding to our 11: ihā ’rvāñcam ati hvaya indraṁ jāitrāya jetave: asmākam astu varṇaṁ yataṣ kṛṇotu vīryam (instead of c, d, TB. has one