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xix. 45- 9. Let Bhaga favor me with fortune (bhága), in order to breath etc. etc.

10. Let the Maruts favor me with troops, in order to breath etc. etc.

1. Prajāpati bound thee first [as] unsubdued (ástṛta), in order to heroism; it do I bind for thee in order to life-time, to splendor, and to force and to strength: let the unsubdued one defend thee.

2. Standing upright, defend thou this man unremittingly, O unsubdued one; let not the Paṇis, the sorcerers, damage thee; as Indra the barbarians, [so] do thou shake down them that fight [us]; overpower and scatter (ví) all our rivals: let the unsubdued one defend thee.

All the mss. ⌊with unimportant variants⌋ read in a tiṣṭhanta; SPP. emends to tiṣṭhatu, because the comm. reads the latter; our tíṣṭhan suits the connection decidedly better. ⌊The vocative astṛta and the tvā are⌋ perhaps sufficient reasons for our altering the rákṣann of the mss. (also of the comm. and Ppp.) into rakṣa, and the translation follows ⌊the printed text of Berlin⌋. To humor his tiṣṭhatu, SPP. changes the