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49 121. 3 a, b. Ppp. has for c, d sukṣetriyasya muñcatāṁ saṃgranthya hṛdayasya ca. ⌊"Their [the two stars'] healing virtue would doubtless be connected with the meteorological conditions of the time at which their heliacal rising takes place."—Sūryā-siddhānta. l.c., p. 337.⌋

2. Let this night fade away (apa-vas); let the bewitchers (f., abhikṛ́tvan) fade away; let the kṣetriyá-effacing (-nā́çana) plant fade the kṣetriyá away.

3. With the straw of the brown, whitish-jointed barley for thee, with the sesame-stalk (? -piñjī) of sesame, let the kṣetriyá-effacing etc. etc.

4. Homage to thy ploughs (lān̄gala), homage to thy poles-and-yokes: let the kṣetriyá-effacing etc. etc.

5. Homage to them of constantly falling eyes, homage to them of the same region (? saṁdeçyà), homage to the lord of the field: let the kṣetriyá-effacing etc. etc.