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xix. 34- Ppp. is corrupt, and brings no help; it has sarva vyunaktu tej-. ⌊Did not SPP. understand his reading thus: 'Let the amulet separate them all from their téjas (ablative)'? The instrum. téjasā, which good authorities give, would also be a proper construction with root vic: 'Let the amulet part them all with their efficiency (téjas),' i.e. rob the wizards of their power to make their witchcrafts efficacious against us. Whitney's reading and rendering are wholly satisfactory in themselves: but vinaktu téjasas or -sā seems to me no less so; and it has much stronger support (directly or indirectly) from the mss., and even from Ppp., than has RW's vínaṣṭatejasas.—After writing the above, I notice that Bloomfield, p. 672, interprets SPP's reading quite differently: the way in which he construes vic does not seem to me admissible.⌋

3. Sapless the artificial noise, sapless the seven that fall apart; away from here, O jan̄giḍá, make fall (çat) misery, as an archer (ástṛ) an arrow.

4. A spoiler of witchcraft verily is this, likewise a spoiler of niggardry; likewise may the powerful jan̄giḍá lengthen out our life-times.

5. Let that greatness of the jan̄giḍá protect us all about, wherewith [it] overpowered the víṣkandha with force, [being] a counteracting force (?).

6. Thrice the gods generated thee that art settled (ni-sthā) upon the earth; and Brahmans of old know thee thus as An̄giras by name.