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viii. 8- bhan̄gāi ’va; for d it has bṛhajjālena saṁcitāḥ ⌊cf. our 4 d⌋. Kāuç. (16. 14) takes tājadbhan̄ga as a single word, and its comm. explains it as the castor-oil plant (eraṇḍa). ⌊In çṛṇīhi I see an allusion to the sorcerer's favorite "reeds" (çará) of vs. 4. Griffith notes the power of the açvattha to rend asunder the masonry etc. in whose crevices its seed has germinated. The other word-plays, including that on vádhaka badhaka (cf. bādhaka and root bādh), are evident. See also introd.⌋ *⌊So also SPP. with several of his authorities.⌋

4. Let the rough-called one make yonder men rough (paruṣá); let the slayer slay them with deadly weapons; let them be broken quickly like a reed (çará), tied together with a great net.

5. The atmosphere was the net; the great quarters [were] the net-stakes; therewith encircling [them], the mighty one (çakrá) scattered away the army of the barbarians (dásyu).

6. Since great [is] the net of the great mighty one, the vigorous (vājínīvant)—therewith do thou crowd (ubj) down upon all [our] foes, that no one soever of them may be released.

7. Great, O Indra, hero (çū́ra), is the net of thee that art great, that art worth a thousand, that hast hundred-fold heroism; therewith encircling the army of the barbarians, the mighty one slew a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred million.

8. This great world was the net of the great mighty one; by that net of Indra do I encircle all yon men with darkness.

9. Debility, formidable ill-success, and mishap that is not to be exorcised away (an-apavācaná), toil, and weariness, and confusion—with these do I encircle all yon men.