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walk through the villages, visiting those who wake (?). Svâhâ!
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(g) Kill them! Bind them!" thus (says) this messenger of Brahman. Agni has encompassed them. Indra knows them; Brihaspati knows them; I the Brahmana know them who seize (men), who have prominent teeth, rugged hair, hanging breasts. Svâhâ!
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(h) The night-walkers, wearing ornaments on their breasts, with lances in their hands, drinking out of skulls! Svâhâ!
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(i) Their father Ukkaihsrâvyakarnaka walks (?) at their head, their mother walks in the rear, seeking a vikhura (?) in the village. Svâhâ!
(k) 'The sister, the night-walker, looks at the family through the rift (?)-she who wakes while people sleep, whose mind is turned on the wife that has become mother. Svâhâ!
(1) 'O god with the black path, Agni, burn the lungs, the hearts, the livers of those (female demons); burn their eyes. Svâhâ!'
8. Then he washes his hands and touches the ground with (the verses), 'O thou whose hair is well parted! Thy heart that dwells in heaven, in the moon of that immortality impart to us. May I not weep over distress (falling to my lot) through
my sons.
'I know thy heart, O earth, that dwells in heaven, in the moon: thus may I, the lord of immortality, not weep over distress (falling to my lot) through my sons.'
9. Now (follows) the medhaganana (or production
8. Pâraskara I, 6, 17.
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