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155 2. Sapless is the poison of the east, sapless what is of the north; also this that is of the south is exchangeable with gruel (karambhá).

3. Having made gruel of sesame (?), teeming with fat, steaming (?), thou dost not rack, O ill-bodied one, him that has eaten thee merely from hunger.

4. Away we make thine intoxication fly, like an arrow (çará), O intoxicating one (f.); we make thee with our spell (vácas) to stand forth, like a boiling pot.

The comm. (with a pair of SPP's mss.) reads çarúm in b*; it also (alone) has jeṣantam (= prayatamānam) in c; one of our mss. (Op.), with two or three of SPP's, give instead péṣantam. Ppp. has a peculiar c: pari tvā varmi veçantam. The verse is regular if we make the ordinary abbreviation of iva to ’va in b and c. *⌊The reciters K and V gave çarúm: comm. renders as if çárum 'arrow.' BR. render the