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v. 30- deliverance (utpáraṇa) do I put forward (puro-dhā), in order to this man's being unharmed.

13. Let breath come, let mind come, let sight come, then strength; let his body assemble (? sam-vid); let that stand firm with its (two) feet.

14. With breath, O Agni, with sight unite him; associate (sam-īray) him with body, with strength; thou understandest immortality (amṛ́ta): let him not now go; let him not now become one housing in the earth.

15. Let not thy breath give out, nor let thine expiration be shut up; let the sun, the over-lord, hold thee up out of death by his rays.

16. This much-quivering tongue, bound, speaks within; by it I have exorcised the yákṣma and the hundred pangs of the fever.

17. This [is] the dearest world of the gods, unconquered. Unto what death appointed, O man, thou wast born here, we and it call after thee: do not die before old age.