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viii. 3- from stem nikṣa- are so few (in 3 AV. verses), perhaps we might after all assume that this is a root-class imperative, nikṣ-ṣva.⌋

26. Agni drives off the demons, he of bright brightness, immortal, bright, purifying, laudable.

1. O Indra-and-Soma, burn the demon, oppress (ubj) [him]; put (arpay-) down, ye two bulls, them that thrive in darkness; crush away, scorch down the fools (acít); slay, push, pin (çā) down the devourers.

2. O Indra-and-Soma, against ⌊abhí⌋ the evil-plotter, the evil, let heat boil all up ⌊sam-yas⌋ like a fiery pot; assign unavoidable hate unto the brahman-hating, flesh-eating kimīdín of terrible aspect.

3. O Indra-and-Soma, pierce ye the evil-doers within their hiding-place (vavrá), in untenable darkness, whence there shall not come up again any one soever of them; be that your furious might unto overpowering.

4. O Indra-and-Soma, cause to roll (vṛt) from the sky the deadly weapon, from the earth also, a shattering for the evil-plotter; shape out from the mountains (párvata) the noisy one, wherewith ye burn down the increasing demon.