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167 lākṣā to be the healing substance referred to in it; probably it is a product of the arundhatī. Ppp. has every time rohiṇī instead of rohaṇī, and so the comm. also reads; the manuscripts of Kāuç., too, give rohiṇī in the pratīka, as does the schol. under 28. 14. There is evident punning upon the name and the causative rohaya- 'make grow'; perhaps the true reading of a is róhaṇy asi rohiṇī 'thou art a grower, O red one,' bringing in the color of the lac as part of the word-play; the comm. assumes rohiṇi, voc., at end of a (he lohitavarṇe lākṣe). Ppp. further reads çīrṇasya instead of chinnásya; and has, in place of our c, rohiṇyām arha ātā ’si rohiṇyā ’sy oṣadhe, making the verse an anuṣṭubh. The comm. gives asnas for asthnas in b.

2. What of thee is torn (riç), what of thee is inflamed (? dyut), is crushed (? péṣṭra) in thyself—may Dhātar excellently put that together again, joint with joint.

3. Let thy marrow come together with marrow, and thy joint together with joint; together let what of thy flesh has fallen apart, together let thy bone grow over.

4. Let marrow be put together with marrow; let skin (cárman) grow (ruh) with skin; let thy blood, bone grow; let flesh grow with flesh.

5. Fit thou together hair with hair; fit together skin (tvác) with skin; let thy blood, bone grow; put together what is severed, O herb.

6. Do thou here stand up, go forth, run forth, a chariot well-wheeled, well-tired, well-naved; stand firm upright.