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The cognates show a semantic development from "strew, scatter" to "plunder, harass, destroy" ("to scatter" --> "to scatter the enemy armies"); this meaning is preserved in Rigveda 2.33.11.2 : anyáṃ te asmán ní vapantu sénāḥ(“ May your armies attack someone other than us”).
Lay on the yokes, and fasten well the traces: formed is the furrow, sow the seed within it. Through song may we find bearing fraught with plenty: near to the ripened grain approach the sickle.
stuhí śrutáṃ gartasádaṃ yúvānaṃ mṛgáṃ ná bhīmámupahatnúmugrám. mṛḷā́ jaritré rudra stávānoʼnyáṃ te asmánní vapantu sénāḥ.
Praise him the chariot-borne, the young, the famous, fierce, slaying like a dreaded beast of the forest. O Rudra, praised, be gracious to the singer of your hymns. Let thy armies spare us and attack someone else.
O'er hills through vales devouring as thou goest, thou partest like an army fain for loot As when a barber shaves a beard, thou shavest earth when the wind blows on thy flame and fans it.