________________ V. CHARMS PERTAINING TO ROYALTY. 129 darkness; may not a single one of those, driven forth by the speckled ghee, be saved ! 20. May the white-footed (arrow ?) fly to yonder lines of the enemy, may yonder armies of the enemies be to-day put to confusion, O Nyarbudi ! 21. The enemies have been confused, O Nyarbudi: slay each picked man among them, slay them with this army! 22. The enemy with coat-of-mail, he that has no coat-of-mail, and he that stands in the battle-throng, throttled by the strings of their bows, by the fastenings of their coats-of-mail, by the battle-throng, they shall lie! 23. Those with armour and those without armour, the enemies that are shielded by armour, all those, O Arbudi, after they have been slain, dogs shall devour upon the ground! 24. Those that ride on chariots, and those that have no chariots, those that are mounted, and those that are not mounted, all those, after they have been slain, vultures and strong-winged hawks shall devour! 25. Counting its dead by thousands, the hostile army, pierced and shattered in the clash of arms, shall lie! 26. Pierced in a vital spot, shrieking in concert with the birds of prey, wretched, crushed, prostrate, (the birds of prey) shall devour the enemy who attempts to hinder this oblation of ours directed against (him)! 27. With (the oblation) to which the gods flock, which is free from failure, with it Indra, the slayer of Vritra, shall slay, and with the Trishamdhi-bolt (the bolt with three joints)! [42] Digitized by Google