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575 23. As glory [is] set in the sacrificer, as in this sacrifice, so let the varaṇá amulet etc. etc.

24. As glory [is] in Prajāpati, as in this most exalted one, so let the varaṇá amulet etc. etc.

25. As in the gods [is] immortality (amṛ́ta), as in them is set truth, so let the varaṇá amulet etc. etc.

1. Indra's [was] the first chariot, the gods' the after chariot, Varuna's the third one; the snakes' chariot, the furthest one (?), hath run against the pillar: then may it come to harm (?).

2. Darbhá-grass, brightness, young shoot (? tarū́ṇaka); horse's tail-tuft, rough-one's tail-tuft; chariot's seat (? bándhura).

3. Smite down, O white one, with the foot, both the fore and the hind; like water-floated wood, sapless [is] the snakes' poison, fierce water (vā́r).

Ppp. puts the verse after our 4, and reads at the end vār id ugram. Part of our mss. (T.D.K.) read vā́r, accented, in both verses, and that seems most likely to be the true reading; the translation adopts it. ⌊Pischel takes it as "halte auf," ''Ved. Stud.'',