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iv. 18- víçiṣān). In b, SPP. reports all his authorities as reading çāyayā (p. -ya); no such form has been noted among our mss. ⌊but Ppp. has çāyā tvam; Benares ms. R., chāyayā; and T., chayayā⌋; in most mss. y and p are but imperfectly distinguished, and, as some of SPP's authorities are oral, he is to be presumed right; and the translation implies çāyaya ⌊for the saṁdhi, Prāt. ii. 17⌋. The comm. reads instead kṣāyaya, from kṣi (= kṣayam prāpaya). He rehearses the series of diverse senses given by Yāska to dhāman, and declares them all intended by the word in a. The verse he regards as addressed to the sahadevī.

5. I, with this herb, have spoiled all witchcrafts—what one they have made in the field, what in the kine, or what in thy men (púruṣa).

6. He who hath made hath not been able to make; he hath crushed (çṛ) a foot, a finger; he hath made what is excellent for us, but for himself a burning (tápana).

7. Let the off-wiper wipe off the kṣetriyá and whatever curse [there is]; [wipe] off, forsooth, the sorceresses, off all the hags.

8. Having wiped off the sorcerers, off all the hags, O off-wiper, with thee do we wipe off all that.