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2. Both the seven and the seventy that gather against those of the neck—let them all etc. etc.

3. Both the nine and the ninety that gather against those of the shoulders—let them all etc. etc.

1. Let me go, O evil (pāpmán) being in control, mayest thou be gracious to us; set me uninjured in the world of the excellent, O evil.

2. Thou who, O evil, dost not leave us, thee here do we leave; along at the turning apart of the ways, let evil go after another.

3. Elsewhere than [with] us let the thousand-eyed immortal one make its home; whomsoever we may hate, him let it come upon (ṛch); and whom we hate, just him do thou smite.

Found also in Pāipp. xix. With 28. 1 and 29. 1, it constitutes RV. x. 165. ⌊MGS. ii. 17. 1 a-e is made up of our vi. 27, parts of 29. 1 and 28.3, and 28. 1: see also the