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xix. 47- the Anukr. ⌊in that it gives six pādas to vs. 7 and makes a total of 9 vss.⌋, and is a decidedly preferable division to that in our text, which was founded on the numbering of our first mss., and it will be followed in translating here. The sense, however, would be still better suited by making vs. 6 of three lines, instead of vs. 7. ⌊In what follows, I give first the numeration of the Berlin edition, and then, in parenthesis, SPP's numeration.⌋

7, 8 a, b. (7.) Nor a robber our horses, O excellent one; nor the sorceresses our men.

By the most distant roads let the thief, the robber, run; by a distant one let the toothed rope, by a distant one let the malignant hasten (ṛṣ).

8 c, d, 9 a, b. (8.) Do thou, O night, make the snake blind, harsh-smoked (?), headless; grind up the two jaws of the wolf; cast (ā-han) the thief into the snare.