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2. The worm of all forms, the four-eyed, the variegated, the whitish—I crush (çṛ) the ribs of it; I hew at (api-vraçc) what is its head.

3. Like Atri I slay you, O worms, like Kaṇva, like Jamadagni; with the incantation of Agastya I mash together the worms.

4. Slain is the king of the worms, also the chief (sthapáti) of them is slain; slain is the worm, having its mother slain, its brother slain, its sister slain.

5. Slain are its neighbors (? veçás), slain its further neighbors (? páriveças), also those that are petty (kṣullaká), as it were—all those worms are slain.

6. I crush up (pra-çṛ) thy (two) horns, with which thou thrustest; I split thy receptacle (?), which is thy poison-holder.