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623 18. We go forward (pū́rva) to meet him of dark horses, black, swarthy, killing, fearful, making to fall the chariot of the hairy one (keçín); homage be to him.

19. Do not let fly at us the club (? matyà), the god-missile; be not angry at us, O lord of cattle; homage to thee; elsewhere than [over] us shake out the heavenly bough.

20. Do not harm us; bless us; avoid us; be not angry; let us not come into collision with thee.

21. [Be] not [greedy] for our kine, our men; be not greedy for our goats and sheep; elsewhere, O formidable one, roll forth [thy missile]; smite the progeny of the mockers (píyāru).

22. Of whom the takmán, the kā́sikā, goes as one weapon, like the noise of a stallion horse, to him, leading out in succession, be homage.

23. He who stands propped up in the atmosphere, killing the non-sacrificing, the god-mockers—to him be homage with the ten clever ones (çákvarī).

24. To thee are assigned the forest animals ⌊paçú⌋, the wild beasts in the woods, the geese (haṅsá), eagles, hawks, birds; thine, O lord of cattle, is the monster (? yakṣá) within the waters; for thine increase flow the waters of the heaven.

Ppp. reads, for b, tubhyaṁ vayāṅsi çakunāṣ patatriṇaḥ, elides the a of apsu in c, and combines divyā ”po in d. The comm. has mṛdhe at the end, explaining it as = undanāya. He takes yakṣam as = pūjyaṁ svarūpam, but does not give any reason