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iv. 7- verb in d by 'wegstellen.' When you set the pot aside (take it off the fire), it stops boiling; and so the poison is to stop working. But see also Weber's note.⌋

5. With a spell we cause to stand about [thee] as it were a collected troop (grā́ma); stand thou, like a tree in [its] station; spade-dug one (f.), thou rackest not.

6. For covers (? pavásta) they bought thee, also for garments (? dūrçá), for goat-skins; purchasable (? prakrī́) art thou, O herb; spade-dug one, thou rackest not.

7. Who of you did what first unattained deeds—let them not harm our heroes here; for that purpose I put you forward.

1. The being (bhūtá) sets milk in beings; he has become the overlord of beings; Death attends (car) the royal consecration (rājasū́ya) of him; let him, as king, approve this royalty.

The meaning is obscure. Very possibly bhūtá is taken here in more than one of its senses, by a kind of play upon the word. Weber renders it the first time by "powerful" (kräftig), nearly as the comm., whose gloss is samṛddhaḥ; the latter gives it the same