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941 as one vs., his 11; our 14 as his 12; our 15 ab as his 13; and our 15 c-f as his 14. Or, he says, we may take our 14 with 15 ab as one mantra. He reads agnis again in our e as in 16. 2 e.⌋

1. I bind for thee this amulet, in order to long life, to brilliancy—the darbhá, damager of rivals, burner (tápana) of the heart of the hater.

2. Burner of the heart of the hater, causing to burn the mind of foes, do thou, O darbhá, burn together like heat (gharmá) against all the evil-hearted.

3. Burning against [them] like heat, O darbhá, burning down the haters, O amulet, split thou our rivals to the heart, like Indra breaking apart Vala.

The translation implies emendation in d to valám, as made in our edition; SPP. follows the mss. and comm. in accepting balám, in spite of its false accent. Nearly all the mss. read virujám (p. vi॰rujám), but the comm. -jan, which, of course, is alone admissible; SPP. very strangely compromises by reading virujáṁ in saṁhitā, but vi॰ruján in pada! In c, SPP. gives, with ⌊five of his authorities⌋, -dáḥ sapátnānām bhinddhi; even the pada-mss. vary between sa॰pátnān: ā́: bh- and sa॰pátnānām: bh-; the comm. has -nānām, and so has Ppp.; the translation above implies -nān ā́,* in spite of the separation of ā́ from hṛdás. ⌊Ppp. gives indrāi ’va in d, as noted under vs. 2.⌋