Or tanvā belongs to tarema. The comm., against the accent and the sense, takes áriṣyantas as a future participle (= gamiṣyantas)! Ppp. reads in c, d apravāyuṣaṁ na tarehur ar-.
4. As the millet-seed, flying forth, blowing away, is not found, so, O night, make him fly forth who is malicious against us.
The mss. read in a mostly çāmyā́kas (so the comm. and SPP.), also çyāmyā́kas and çyāmā́kas; and have prapátan or prápatan, with other chance variations; and in b, apavā́n (p. apa॰vā́n) or -vā́ṁ; in respect to this word, the translation ⌊taking it as present participle of apa-vā⌋ follows them rather than our emendation aparám. None of the mss. accent na, but SPP. ventures ⌊with the Berlin ed.⌋ to emend the reading. At the beginning of c, the mss. all have etā́v ā́ ⌊several ā⌋ (p. etāú: ā́); the comm. and SPP. (also Ppp.) agree with our evā́. The majority of mss. have at the end -yánti. Ppp. has in a, b sānyākaṣ prapatante divāṁ nā ’nu-; in d it combines yo ‘smāṅ.
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].
The pada-mss. strangely read at the beginning apáḥ; the rest ⌊save one of SPP's, p.m., which has ápa⌋ accent apá; SPP., as well as our text, emends to ápa, which the comm. also understands. All the mss. have vā́sas, and the comm., and SPP.; our avāsayas is a bold emendation, but makes both good meter and good sense. Ppp. gives no help: apa stedaṁ vāsamathaṁ. In b, SPP. follows the comm. in reading goajám; most of the mss. give gór ájam, but a part górájas (p. górájaḥ! but one ms. gó ‘jaḥ ⌊or gó॰jaḥ: that is gó and jaḥ with avagraha-sign between⌋, corrected to góájaḥ). ⌊Ppp. reads gotham. The comm. absurdly takes goajám as a copulative compound, = gā ajāṅç ca, and makes it and vā́sas objects of nínīṣati. The translation implies rather SPP's text than ours ⌊that is goajám rather than gór ájam, I suppose⌋. ⌊At the end, the níneṣati of the Berlin text is doubtless to be corrected to nínīṣati (cf. the stems in W's Roots, Verb-forms, etc., p. 233-4): nínīṣati is read by Ppp., by W's O.D.I., and (since he reports nothing to the contrary) by all of SPP's authorities. From the Index Verborum and from the Roots (p. 91) it would appear that W's later judgment rejected the níneṣati of the text and some mss., though he has overlooked the matter here. The desiderative⌋ so distinctly calls for a prefix that one is tempted further to emend átho in c to ápa.
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.
