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707 61. Let Agni burn the malevolent one, slaughtered, crushed (mṛd) by thee.

62. Cut (vraçc) thou, cut off, cut up; burn thou, burn off, burn up.

63. The Brahman-scather, O divine inviolable one, do thou burn up all the way from the root.

64. That he may go from Yama's seat to evil worlds, to the distances.

65. So do thou, O divine inviolable one, of the Brahman-scather that has committed offense, of the god-reviler, the ungenerous,—

66. With a thunderbolt hundred-jointed, sharp, razor-pronged,—

67. Smite forth the shoulder-bones, forth the head.

68. His hairs (lóman) do thou cut up (sam-chid); his skin strip off;—

69. His flesh cut in pieces; his sinews wrench off;—

70. His bones distress (pīḍ); his marrow smite out;—

71. All his limbs, [his] joints unloosen.

72. Let the flesh-eating Agni thrust him from the earth, burn (uṣ) up; let Vāyu [do so] from the atmosphere, the great expanse (varimán);—

73. Let the sun thrust him forth from the sky, burn him down.