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4. As the millet-seed, flying forth, blowing away, is not found, so, O night, make him fly forth who is malicious against us.

5. Thou didst make the thief stay away, and the kine-driving robber, also him who, haltering the courser's head, tries to lead it [away].

6. When, O well-portioned night, thou comest today, sharing out what is good, [then] make us to enjoy that, that it go not away.

The translation follows our text, which is very different from that of the mss. and SPP. Our adyā́ in a implies adyá ā́ (ā́...áyas), which all the pada-mss. have, while SPP., with the comm., treats it as only adyá with the final lengthened by the usual Vedic license. In b all the mss. accent ví bhajanti ⌊p. ví: bhajanti⌋; SPP. emends to vi-bhájanti, while our text means vibhájantī. The comm. understands -nti ⌊supplying çatravas as subject⌋, and takes áyas after it as the noun, 'metal' (ayomayaṁ vastu); to us áyas is verb. ⌊Ppp. has vasuḥ at end of b.⌋ In c the mss., the comm., and SPP., begin with yád; we have emended it to tád. For d, most mss. have yáthe ’dáṁ nā́ ’nupāyási (p. anu॰pāyási); but one -yáti, one -dányā́nu-; SPP. follows the comm. and prints yáthé ’d anyā́n upā́yasi (p. upa॰áyasi), but in a note conjectures yáthé ’d anyā́n nó ’pā́yati 'that it go not unto others,' which is very acceptable, as giving a good sense