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 (7 + 10 + 7; Ind. Stud. viii. 129): only this one divides rather as 8 + 10 + 6.—One is tempted to deem agne an intrusion and to regard the verse as a couple of simple triṣṭubh pādas: and the temptation is strengthened by the fact that the sole mark of pāda-division in W's Collation Book comes after vahantu.⌋

1. With that I pierce him; with ill-success I pierce him; with extermination I pierce him; with calamity I pierce him; with seizure I pierce him; with darkness I pierce him.

2. I demand against him with the terrible, cruel demands (prāiṣá) of the gods.

3. I set him in the two tusks of Vāiçvānara.

4. So, not so, may she swallow down.

5. Whoso hates us, him let [his] self (ātmán) hate; whomso we hate, let him hate [his] self.}}

6. Let us disportion our hater from heaven, from earth, from atmosphere.

7. O thou of good ways (suyāman), of sight (cākṣuṣá).

8. Now (idám) do I wipe off evil-dreaming on him of such-and-such lineage, son of such-and-such a mother.

9. What I went at on such-and-such an occasion, what at evening, what in early night;—