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1. Let not the snake, O gods, slay us with our offspring, with our men (púruṣa); what is shut together may it not unclose; what is open may it not shut together: homage to the god-people.

2. Homage be to the black [snake], homage to the cross-lined, homage to the brown constrictor; homage to the god-people.

3. I smite thy teeth together with tooth, thy (two) jaws together with jaw, thy tongue together with tongue, thy mouth, O snake, together with mouth.

1. This verily is a remedy; this is Rudra's remedy; wherewith one may spell away (apa-brū) the one-shafted (-téjana), hundred-tipped arrow.