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v. 14- A verse of doubtful interpretation; but it is altogether probable that the animal-names are coördinate in construction with kṛtyā́ in c; and they are feminine doubtless because this is feminine; the kṛtyā is to overtake its perpetrator with their swiftness and force. But the Pet. Lex. takes vāraṇī́ as 'shy, wild,' qualifying eṇī́. Ppp. combines enāi ’va and mṛgāi ’va, and reads vāruṇī, and -krandaṁ for -skandaṁ; -krandam seems rather preferable. The unaltered s of abhisk- in b falls under Prāt. ii. 104, and the example is quoted there. Though the verse is a fairly regular gāyatrī, the Anukr. stupidly accounts it a sāmnī triṣṭubh, as if it were prose, and contained only 22 syllables.

12. Straighter than an arrow let it fly, O heaven-and-earth, to meet him; let it, the witchcraft, seize again him, the witchcraft-maker, like a deer.

13. Let it go like fire up-stream, like water down-stream; like an easyc hariot let the witchcraft roll back to the witchcraft-maker.

1. Both one of me and ten of me [are] the exorcisers (apavaktár), O herb; thou born of right (ṛtá), thou rich in right, mayest thou, honeyed (madhulā́), make honey for me.

2. Both two of me and twenty of me [are] etc. etc.

3. Both three of me and thirty of me [are] etc. etc.

4. Both four of me and forty of me [are] etc. etc.

5. Both five of me and fifty of me [are] etc. etc.

6. Both six of me and sixty of me [are] etc. etc.

7. Both seven of me and seventy of me [are] etc. etc.

8. Both eight of me and eighty of me [are] etc. etc.