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x. 4- 18. Indra hath slain first thy progenitor, O snake; of them, being shattered, what forsooth can be their sap?

19. Since I have grasped together their heads, as a fisherman the kárvara; having gone away to the middle of the river, I have washed out the snake's poison.

20. The poison of all snakes let the rivers carry away; slain [are] the cross-lined ones, crushed down the pṛ́dākus.

21. I choose as it were the filaments of herbs successfully; I conduct as it were mares; O snake, let thy poison come out.

22. What poison is in fire, in the sun, what in the earth, in herbs, kāndā-poison, kanáknaka—let thy poison come out; let it come.

23. Whichever of the snakes [are] fire-born, herb-born, whichever came hither (ā-bhū) [as] water-born lightnings; those of which the kinds are variously great—to those serpents would we pay worship with reverence.

24. Thou art a girl, tāúdī by name; verily thou art by name ghee-like (ghṛtā́cī); I take beneath thy poison-spoiling track.

25. Remove thou [it] from every limb; make [it] avoid the heart; then, what keenness (téjas) the poison has, let that go downward for thee.

26. He (it ?) hath come to be afar; he hath obstructed the poison; he hath mixed poison in poison; Agni hath put out the snake's poison; Soma hath conducted [it] out; the poison hath gone after the biter; the snake hath died.

Ppp. reads (corruptly) āre ‘bhūd viṣam aro viṣe viṣam aprayāg api: agnir aher nir adhād viṣam somo anṛnāiḥ dviṣam ahīr amṛtaḥ. Kāuç. prescribes the use of the verse