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xi. 9- is that of the minor Pet. Lex., apparently founded solely on an Avestan analogue; the comm. defines it as māyāvaçāt kevalaṁ rūpamātreṇo ’palabhyamānāḥ senārūpakāḥ. He reads antaḥ and pātre as two independent words, according to his custom of caring nothing for accent. For riçām ("tearing one, as designating some small animal," minor Pet. Lex.) he reads vaçām 'cow,' so that we lose any light he might have cast on the obscure description. Bp. reads riṣā́m. Prāt. iii. 75 and iv. 77 prescribe the pada-reading durnihita-.

16. Her that strides upon the khaḍū́ra, mutilated, wearing what is mutilated (?); the specters that are concealed, and what Gandharvas-and-Apsarases [there are], serpents, other-folk, demons;—

17. The four-tusked ones, the black-toothed, the pot-testicled, the blood-faced; they that are self-frighting and frighting.

18. Do thou, O Arbudi, make to tremble yonder lines (síc) of our enemies; let both the conquering one and the conqueror, allied with Indra, conquer our enemies.

19. Let our enemy lie squelched, crushed, slain, O Nyarbudi; let tongues of fire, tufts of smoke, go conquering with the army.

20. Of our enemies, pushed forth by it, O Arbudi, let Indra, lord of might (çácīpáti), slay each best man (vára); let no one soever of them be freed.

21. Let their hearts burst open (ut-kas), their breath pass up aloft; let dryness of mouth follow after our enemies, ⌊and⌋ not those who are friendly.

22. Both they who are wise (dhī́ra) and they who are unwise, those going away and they who are deaf, they of darkness arid they who are