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I. CHARMS TO CURE DISEASES.
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2. Rudra has broken your necks, ye Pisakas : may he also break your ribs, ye spooks! The plant whose power is everywhere has united you with Yama (death).
3. Exempt from danger, O Mitra and Varuna, may we here be ; drive back with your flames the devouring demons (Atrin)! Neither aider, nor support do they find; smiting one another they go to death.
II, 4. Charm with an amulet derived from the
gangida tree, against diseases and demons. 1. Unto long life and great delights, for ever unharmed and vigorous, do we wear the gångida, as an amulet destructive of the vishkandha.
2. From convulsions, from tearing pain, from vishkandha, and from torturing pain, the gangida shall protect us on all sides-an amulet of a thousand virtues !
3. This gangida conquers the vishkandha, and smites the Atrin (devouring demons); may this allhealing gangida protect us from adversity!
4. By means of the invigorating gangida, bestowed by the gods as an amulet, do we conquer in battle the vishkandha and all the Rakshas.
5. May the hemp and may the gangida protect me against vishkandha! The one (gangida) is brought hither from the forest, the other (hemp) from the sap of the furrow.
6. Destruction of witchcraft is this amulet, also destruction of hostile powers: may the powerful gangida therefore extend far our lives!
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