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291 in c, niṣ kṛdhi for nāçaya. The comm. takes the two words in a as names of disorders, which is perhaps preferable, and regards them as occasioned by phlegm (çleṣman); balāsa he defines as kāsaçvāsātmaka çleṣmaroga. ⌊For ā́sthita, see note to iv. 17. 8.⌋ ⌊Delete the accent-sign over -saṁ in c.⌋

2. The balā́sa of him that has balā́sa I destroy like a muṣkará; I cut its bond like the root of a gourd.

3. Fly out forth from here, O balā́sa, like a young āçuṁgá; then, like the [last] year's bulrush, scud away, innocuous to heroes.

1. Thou art the highest of herbs; of thee the trees are subjects (upastí); let him be our subject who assails us.

2. Whoever, both kindred and not of kin, assails us, of them may I be highest, as this one of trees.

3. As of herbs soma is made highest of oblations, as the talā́çā of trees, [so] may I be highest.