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1. Indra of mighty power, overpowering, having overpowered, very powerful, overpowering, power-winning (saho-jít), heaven-winning, kine-winning, booty-winning, to be praised (īḍ), by name, do I call: may I be long-lived.

2. Indra of mighty power etc. etc. do I call: may I be dear to the gods.

3. Indra of mighty power etc. etc. do I call: may I be dear to living beings (prajā́).

4. Indra of mighty power etc. etc. do I call: may I be dear to cattle.

5. Indra of mighty power etc. etc. do I call: may I be dear to my equals (samāná).

6. Arise, arise, O sun; arise upon me with splendor; both let my hater be subject to me, and let not me be subject to my hater.—Thine, O Vishṇu, are heroisms manifold; do thou fill us with cattle of all forms; set me in comfort in the highest firmament (vyòman).

Ppp. reads in the concluding pāda of the refrain svadhāyāṁ no dh-; the comm. also has svadhāyām. The mss. commit the absurdity throughout of setting no avasāna between the verse proper and the refrain; we have, as required by the sense, introduced it in our text; ⌊the matter is further discussed above, p. 805, ¶ 5⌋. The refrain is, as usual, represented in vss. 7-18 only by the word táva in the mss. (except in R., which fills it out a little further). ⌊With reference to the main stock of the verse, the comm. cites most appositely TB. iii. 7. 6$5$, úd agād ayám ādityó viçvena sáhasā sahá: dviṣántam máma randháyan mó aháṁ dviṣató radham, although it does not appear why he did not cite rather our verse 24 a-d, below, which see.⌋

⌊The refrain seems to count as 11: 12 + 11 = 34 syllables with the Anukr.; but the true triṣṭubh cadences (viçvárūpāiḥ, víoman) of its second and third pādas suggest the