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435 yájuṣā havírbhiḥ (Ppp. has the same); in c, mṛtyúr nírṛtyā saṁvidānáḥ, and, for d, purā́ diṣṭā́d ā́hutīr asya hantu; Ppp. has, for d, purā dṛṣṭā rājyo hantv asya intending dṛṣṭād ājyam?⌋.

2. The sorcerers, perdition, also the demon—let them smite his truth with untruth; let the gods, sent by Indra, disturb (math) his sacrificial butter; let not that meet with success which he yonder offers.

3. Let the two speedy over-kings, like two falcons flying together, smite the sacrificial butter of the foeman, whosoever shows malice against us.

4. Turned away [are] both thine arms; I fasten up thy mouth; with the fury of divine Agni—therewith have I smitten thine oblation.

5. I fasten back thine arms; I fasten up thy mouth; with the fury of terrible Agni—therewith have I smitten thine oblation.

 

1. Thee, the devout ⌊vípra⌋, O Agni, powerful one, would we fain put about us [as] a stronghold, [thee] of daring color, day by day, slayer of the destructive one.

The verse is RV. x. 87. 22, which has at the end the plural (-vatām); further found in VS. (xi. 26) and MS. (ii. 7. 2), both of which agree with RV., and in TS. (i. 5. 6$2$ et al.),