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1. Up have flown his two dark-brown (çyāvá) quiverers (? vithurá), as two vultures to the sky—up-heater-and-forth-heater, up-heaters of his heart.

2. I have made them (dual) rise up, like (two) weary-sitting kine, like (two) growling dogs, like (two) lurking (? ud-av) wolves.

3. The (two) on-thrusters, down-thrusters, also together-thrusters: I shut up his urinator who bore [away] from here—[whether] woman [or] man.

 

1. The kine have sat in their seat; the bird has flown to its nest; the mountains have stood in their site; I have made the (two) kidneys stand in their station.

Instead of the unsatisfactory and questionable* vṛkkāú, the comm. reads vṛkāu, and understands it to mean "the he-wolf and the she-wolf"; they are to be made to stay in an enemy's house. He also reads in c a sthāne, regarding ā as prefix to asthuḥ. SPP. combines again (cf. 95. 3 d) in his text, with the minority of his authorities,