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6. Be ye excited after this formidable hero; take hold, O companions, after Indra, the troop-conqueror, kine-conqueror, thunderbolt-armed, conquering in the race, slaughtering with force.

7. Plunging with power into the cow-stalls, Indra, pitiless, formidable, of hundred-fold fury, immovable, overpowering fighters, invincible—let him favor our armies in the fights.

8. O Bṛihaspati, fly about with thy chariot, demon-slaying, forcing away our enemies; breaking up our foes, slaughtering our enemies, be thou the helper of ourselves.

9. Indra [be] their leader; let Bṛihaspati, the sacrificial gift, the sacrifice, soma, go in front; in the midst of the smashing conquering armies of the gods let the Maruts go.

⌊RV. vs. 8⌋ The text of MS. agrees throughout with ours; the others read āsām in a, and ágram (for mádhye) in d ⌊but TS. ágre⌋. The comm. does here a thing which is hardly paralleled elsewhere in his work: he points out that some explain dakṣiṇā in b as meaning "on the south," but that, as the word would in that case have to be accented