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243 5. O Kirātan, O spotted one, O grass-haunter (?), O brown one! listen ye to me, O black serpents, offensive ones! stand ye not upon the track (? stāmán) of my comrade; calling out (ā-çrāvay), rest quiet in poison.

6. Of the Timātan (?) black serpent, of the brown, and of the waterless, of the altogether powerful (?), I relax the fury, as the bow-string of a bow; I release as it were chariots.

7. Both ā́ligī and víligī, both father and mother—we know your connection (bándhu) completely; sapless ones, what will ye do?

8. Daughter of the broad-knobbed one (?), born of the black barbarian (f.)—of all them (f.) that have pierced defiantly (?) the poison [is] sapless.