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919 of the other Vedic texts (cf. Prāt. ii. 22 note); and the pada-text shows a sense of this, by reading citrā́ḥ: imā́: vṛṣ-. SPP. gives as his pada-text citrā́: imā́, which leaves the saṁhitā reading unaccounted for; the comm. assumes citrāu and imā. In c, all the mss. (whence also SPP.) read yokṣe, for which our yokṣye is an emendation, plainly demanded by both sense and meter; it is one of the common cases of a y lost after ṣ; Ppp., too, has yokṣye (before it, ta for tāu); the comm. has the senseless yakṣe. All the mss., again, read prathamás (-mó yó-), and the comm. likewise, with, of course, SPP.; our emendation to -māú (with SV.) is an improvement, but not a necessity. The comm. foolishly declares āgate = kṣeme, in order to bring about the ordinary combination of yoga and kṣema, here quite out of place. He also takes svàr yát, against accent and pada-text, as one word ⌊cf. 15. 4, note⌋, and explains -yat as a participle, = gacchat! Ppp. reads and combines in c prathamayogā ”gate.

2. Swift, sharp, terrible like a bull, greatly smiting, disturber of men (carṣaṇí), roaring, unwinking, sole hero, Indra conquered a hundred armies together.

3. With the roaring, unwinking, conquering, invincible, immovable, bold one—with Indra thus conquer, thus overpower the fighters, O men, with the arrow-armed bull (vṛ́ṣan).

4. He with the arrow-armed, he with the quiver-hung, [is] controller; he, Indra with his train, brings together the fighters—[he,] conquering those brought together, soma-drinker, defiant with his arms, of formidable bow, shooting with fitted [arrows].

5. To be known by his strength, stout, foremost hero, powerful, vigorous (vājín), overpowering, formidable, excelling heroes, excelling warriors, conquering with power—mount, O Indra, the victorious kine-winning chariot.