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41 2. Now then, forsooth! how then, forsooth? what hundred remedies are thine, of them art thou the chief (uttamá), free from flux, free from disease (árogaṇa).

3. The Asuras dig low down this great wound-healer; that is the remedy of flux; that has made the disease (róga) disappear.

4. The ants (upajī́kā) bring up the remedy from out the ocean; that is the remedy of flux; that has quieted (çam) the disease.

5. This is a great wound-healer, brought up from out the earth; that is the remedy of the flux; that has made the disease disappear.

6. Weal be to us the waters, propitious the herbs; let Indra's thunderbolt smite away the demoniacs {rakṣás); far away let the discharged arrows of the demoniacs fly.