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1. This head that is love's (? preṇí), virility given by Soma—by what is engendered out of that, do we pain (çocaya) thy heart.

2. We pain thy heart; we pain thy mind; as smoke the wind, close upon it (sadhryàñc), so let thy mind go after me.

3. Unto me let Mitra-and-Varuṇa, unto me divine Sarasvatī, unto me let the middle of the earth, let both [its] ends fling (sam-as) thee.

1. The arrow that Rudra hurled at thee, at thy limbs and heart, that do we now thus eject asunder from thee.

2. The hundred tubes that are thine, distributed along thy limbs, of all these of thine do we call out the poisons.

3. Homage to thee, O Rudra, when hurling; homage to [thine arrow] when aimed (prátihita); homage to it when let fly; homage to it when having hit.