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1. Thou art born divine on the divine one, [namely] the earth, O herb; thee here, O down-stretcher, we dig in order to fix the hair.

2. Fix thou the old ones, generate those unborn, and make longer those born.

3. What hair of thine falls down, and what one is hewn off with its root, upon it I now pour with the all-healing plant.

1. [The herb] which Jamadagni dug for his daughter, [as] hair-increaser, that one Vītahavya brought from Asita's houses.

2. To be measured with a rein were they, to be after-measured with a fathom: let the black hairs grow out of thy head like reeds.

3. Fix thou the root, stretch the. end, make the middle stretch out, O herb; let the black hairs grow out of thy head like reeds.