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11. Do not thou make them thy companions—the balā́sa, the cough, the udyugá (?); come not back hitherward from there: for that, O fever, I appeal to thee.

12. O fever, together with thy brother the balā́sa [and] thy sister the cough, together with thy cousin the scab (pāmán), go to yon foreign people.

13. The fever of the third day, of two days out of three, the constant, and the autumnal, the cold, the hot, that of the hot season, that of the rainy season, do thou cause to disappear.

14. To the Gandhāris, the Mūjavants, the An̄gas, the Magadhas, like one sending a person a treasure, do we commit the fever.