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151 7. I make thy member taut, like a bowstring on a bow; mount (kram), as it were a stag a doe, unrelaxingly always (?).

8. Of the horse, of the mule, of the he-goat and of the ram, also of the bull what vigors there are—them do thou put in him, O self-controller.

1. The thousand-horned bull that came up from the ocean—with him, the powerful one, do we put the people to sleep.

2. The wind bloweth not over the earth; no one soever seeth over [it]; both all the women and the dogs do thou make to sleep, going with Indra as companion.

3. The women that are lying on a bench, lying on a couch, lying in a litter; the women that are of pure odor—all of them we make to sleep.