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25 effacer of leprous spot; it has made the leprous spot disappear, has made the skin uniform (sárūpa).

3. Uniform by name is thy mother; uniform by name is thy father; uniform-making art thou, O herb; ⌊so⌋ do thou make this uniform.

4. The swarthy, uniform-making one [is] brought up off the earth; do thou accomplish this, we pray; make the forms right again.

1. As Agni, entering, burned the waters, where the maintainers of duty (dhárma-) paid acts of homage, there they declare to be thy highest birth-place; then do thou, O fever (takmán), complaisant, avoid us.

2. If thou art flame (arcís) or if heat (çocís), or if thy birth-place seeks the shavings (?), hrū́ḍu by name art thou, O god of the yellow one; then do thou, O fever, complaisant, avoid us.

The pada-reading çakalya॰eṣí in b is assured by Prāt. iii. 52, but the meaning is extremely obscure. Ppp. has the better reading çākalyeṣu 'among the shavings'; janitram rather requires a locative. The comm. guesses it as loc. of çakalyeṣ, from çakalya explained as a "heap of shavings," and root iṣ 'seek,' and so an epithet of fire;