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1. ¹ With (the verse), ‘If we trade, O gods, trying by our wealth to acquire (new) wealth, O gods, may Soma thereon bestow splendour, Agni, Indra, Bṛhaspati, and Īśāna. Svāhā!’

यद्वो देवाः प्रपणं चराम देवा धनेन धनमिच्छमानाः । तस्मिन्सोमो रुचमा-दधात्वग्निरिन्द्रो बृहस्पतिरीशानश्च । स्वाहा । इति १

2. Now (follows) the way for appeasing anger.

अथातः क्रोधविनयनम् २

3. ² He addresses the angry person with (the verses), ‘The power of wrath that dwells here on thy forehead, destroying thy enemy (?), may the chaste, wise gods take that away.

‘If thou shootest, as it were, the thought dwelling in thy face, upwards to thy forehead, I loosen the anger of thy heart like the bow-string of an archer.

‘Day, heaven, and earth: we appease thy anger, as the womb of a she-mule (cannot conceive).’

या त एषा रराट्या तनूर्मन्योर्मृद्धस्य नाशिनी तां देवा ब्रह्मचारिणो विनयन्तु सुमेधसः । यत्त एतन्मुखे मतं रराटमुदिव विध्यसि । अव द्यामिव धन्विनो हृदो मन्युं तनोमि ते । अहर्द्यौश्च पृथिवी च विधे क्रोधं नयामसि । गर्भमश्वतर्या इव । इति क्रुद्धमभिमन्त्रयते ३

4. Now (follows) the way for obtaining the victory in disputes.

अथातः संवादाभिजयनम् ४

5. ³ He puts wood on the fire at night-time in an inner apartment, performs the rites down to the Vyāhṛti oblations, and sacrifices small grains mixed with A ya, with (the verse), ‘Tongueless one, thou who art without a tongue! I drive thee away through my sacrifice, so that I may gain the victory in the dispute, and that N.N. may be defeated by me. Svāhā!’

निशायाम-न्तरागारेग्निमुपसमाधाय व्याहृतिपर्यन्तं कृत्वा कणैराज्यमिश्रैर्जुहोति । अव-जिह्व निजिह्विकाव त्वा हविषा यजे । यथाहमुत्तरो वदाम्यधरो वदसौ वदा । स्वाहा । इति ५

6. ⁴ Then in the presence (of his adversary), turned towards him, he murmurs (the verses), ‘I take away the speech from thy mouth, (the speech) that dwells in thy mind, (the speech) from thy heart. Out of every limb I take thy speech. Wheresoever thy speech dwells, thence I take it away.

‘Rudra with the dark hair-lock! Hero! At every contest strike down this my adversary, as a tree (is struck down) by a thunderbolt.

‘Be defeated, be conquered, when thou speakest. Sink down under the earth, when thou speakest, struck down by me irresistibly (?) with the hammer of . . . (?). That is true what I speak. Fall down, inferior to me, N.N.!’

अथैनं सन्निधावभिजपति । आ ते वाचमास्याददे मनस्यां हृदयादधि । अङ्गादङ्गात्ते वाचमाददे यत्र यत्र निहिता वाक्तां त आददे । रुद्र नीलशिखण्ड वीर कर्मणि कर्मणि । इमं मे प्रतिसंवादिनं वृक्षमिवाशनिना जहि । अधो वदाधरो वदाधस्ताद्भूम्या वद । अधोप्रतिरिव कूटेन निजस्य निहितो मया । तत्सत्यं यदहं ब्रवीम्यधरो मत्पद्यस्वासौ । इति ६

7. ⁵ He touches the assembly-hall (in which the contest is going on), and murmurs, ‘The golden-armed, blessed (goddess), whose eyes are not faint, who is decked with ornaments, seated in the midst of the gods, has spoken for my good. Svāhā!’

हिरण्यबाहुः सुभगा जिताक्ष्यलङ्कृता मध्ये । देवानामासीनार्थं मह्यमवोचत्स्वाहा । इति सभामालभ्य जपति ७

8. ⁶ ‘For me have the high ones and the low ones, for me has this wide earth, for me have Agni and Indra accomplished my divine aim’ - with (this verse) he looks at the assembly, and murmurs (it) turned towards (the assembly).

End of the Fourth Paṭala.

मम परे ममापरे ममेयं पृथिवी मही । ममाग्निश्चेन्द्र श्च दिव्यमर्थमसाधयन्निव । इति परिषदमभिवीक्षतेभ्येव जपति ८