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vi. 91-

1. This barley they plowed mightily with yokes of eight, with yokes of six; therewith I unwrap away the complaint (rápas) of thy body.

2. Downward blows the wind; downward burns the sun; downward the inviolable [cow] milks; downward be thy complaint.

3. The waters verily are remedial; the waters are disease-expelling; the waters are remedial of everything; let them make remedy for thee.

1. Be thou, O steed (vājín), of wind-swiftness, being harnessed (yuj) go in Indra's impulse, with mind-quickness; let the all-possessing Maruts harness thee; let Tvashṭar put quickness in thy feet.

2. The quickness, O courser, that is put in thee in secret, also that went about committed to the hawk, to the wind—with that strength do thou, O steed, being strong, win the race, rescuing in the conflict.

This verse also is found in VS. (ix. 9 a), with considerable variants: at the beginning, javó yás te vājin; for b, çyené páritto ácarac ca vā́te; in c, nas for tvám; for d, vājajíc ca bháva sámane ca pār-. Ppp. resembles this in b: çyene carati yaç ca vāte. Half SPP's authorities end with -iṣṇú; I have noted no such reading among our mss.