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1. Come thou, rescuing the living one; of the mountain art thou for the eyes (?), given by all the gods, an enclosure (paridhí) in order to living.

2. Protection (paripā́ṇa) of men (púruṣa), protection of kine art thou; in order to the protection of coursing (árvant) horses hast thou stood.

3. Both art thou a protection, grinder-up of familiar demons (yātú), O ointment, and of what is immortal thou knowest; likewise art thou gratification (-bhójana) of the living, likewise remedy of jaundice (hárita-).

4. Of whomsoever, O ointment, thou creepest over limb after limb, joint after joint, from thence thou drivest away the yákṣma, like a formidable mid-lier (madhyamaçī́).

Found also as RV. x. 97. 12 (repeated, without variant, as VS. xii. 86), which version, however, begins with yásyāu ’ṣadhīḥ prasárpatha, and has in c correspondingly bādhadhve. The comm. has in c bādhate, but regards it as for bādhase. Ppp. reads tasmāt for tatas. Madhyamaçī́ is of obscure meaning; "arbiter," as conjectured by BR., seems very implausible ⌊BR. express their conjectural meaning by the Latin word intercessor; by which, I suspect, they intend, not 'mediator,' but rather 'adversary' or 'preventer' of the disease, which would be plausible enough⌋; more probably