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iv. 6- (which at least one good manuscript reads) is the true text there ⌊Calcutta ed. reads apastambhāu⌋. The comm. has no idea what apaskambha means, but makes a couple of wild guesses: it is the betel-nut (kramuka)-tree, or it is an arrow (both based on senseless etymologies). In a, Ppp. reads -gulis.

5. From the tip have I exorcised the poison, from the anointing and from the feather-socket; from the barb (apāṣṭhá), the horn, the neck have I exorcised the poison.

6. Sapless, O arrow, is thy tip; likewise thy poison is sapless; also thy bow, of a sapless tree, O sapless one, is sapless.

7. They who mashed, who smeared, who hurled, who let loose—they [are] all made impotent; impotent is made the poison-mountain.

8. Impotent [are] thy diggers; impotent art thou, O herb; impotent [is] that rugged (párvata) mountain whence was born this poison.

1. This water (vā́r) shall ward off (vāray-) upon the Varaṇāvatī; an on-pouring of ambrosia (amṛ́ta) is there; with it I ward off thy poison.