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487 5. O Indra-and-Soma, cause [it] to roll forth from the sky; with fireheated, stone-smiting, unaging heat-weapons do ye pierce the devourers in the abyss; let them go to silence.

6. O Indra-and-Soma, be there about you on all sides this prayer (matí), as a girth [about] two vigorous (vājín) horses, the invocation (hótrā) that I send forth to you with wisdom; these acts of worship (bráhman) quicken ye like two lords of men.

7. Remember ye with [your] rapid courses; smite the haters, the destructive demoniacs; O Indra-and-Soma, let there not be ease (sugá) for the evil-doer, the hater that at any time vexes me.

8. Whoever reviles with untrue speeches me walking with simple mind—like waters grasped with the fist, let the speaker of what is not be [himself] non-existent, O Indra.

9. They who distract (vi-hṛ) with [their] courses him of simple intent, or who spoil at their will (svadhā́bhis) what is excellent—let Soma either deliver them up to the serpent, or let him set them in the lap of perdition.

10. Whoever, O Agni, tries to harm our taste of drink, of horses, of kine, whoever of our bodies—let the enemy, the thief, the theft-committer, go to want (dabhrá); let him be degraded with self and with posterity.