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10. This is the remedy of both, of the ill-horse (aghāçvá) and of the constrictor; the mischievous (aghāy-) snake hath Indra, the snake hath Pāidva put in my power (randhay-).

11. We reverence Pāidva, the staunch one, of staunch abode (-dhā́man); here behind sit pṛ́dākus, plotting forth.

12. Of lost lives, of lost poison [are they], slain by the thunderbolt-bearing Indra; Indra hath slain, we have slain.

13. Slain [are] the cross-lined ones, crushed down the pṛ́dākus; slay thou the whitish [snake] that makes a great hood, the black snake, in the darbhá-grasses.

14. The little girl of the Kirātas, she the little one, digs a remedy, with golden shovels, upon the ridges (sā́nu) of the mountains.

15. Hither hath come the young physician, slayer of the spotted ones, unconquered; he verily is a grinder-up of both, the constrictor and the stinger.

16. Indra hath put the snake in my power, [also] both Mitra and Varuṇa, and Vāta ('wind') and Parjanya, both of them.

17. Indra hath put the snake in my power, the pṛ́dāku and the she-pṛ́dāku, the constrictor, the cross-lined one, the kasarṇī́la, the dáçonasi.