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2. Hey, borer! hey, locust! hey, grinder, upakvasa! as a priest (brahman) an unfinished oblation, not eating this barley, go up away, doing no harm.

3. O lord of borers, lord of vághā's! with arid jaws do ye (pl.) listen to me: what devourers (vyadvará) there are of the forest, and whatever devourers ye are, all them do we grind up.

1. Purified with Vāyu's purifier, Soma [hath] run over opposite (pratyán̄), Indra's suitable companion.

The translation implies, at the end of b, áti drutás (or atidrutas, as the comm. appears to read), which SPP. has rightly in his text. In most mss. dru and hru are hardly distinguishable (and not easily distinguishable from du and hu), and hru was unfortunately adopted in our text, because the first mss. consulted favored that reading. Ppp. has instead adhiçrutaḥ. The verse is found twice* in VS. (x. 31 d; xix. 3 a), twice in TB. (ii. 6. 1$2-3$; two immediately successive versions), and thrice in MS. (ii. 3. 8;