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10. A men-watcher, do thou look around for the demon among the people (vikṣú); crush back his three points (ágra); crush, O Agni, his ribs with flame (háras); cut up threefold the root of the sorcerer.

11. Let the sorcerer thrice come within thy reach (? prásiti), who, O Agni, slays truth (ṛtá) with untruth; roaring [at] him with thy flame (arcís), O Jātavedas, do thou put him down (ni-yuj) before the eyes of the singer.

12. What, O Agni, the pair utter in curses today, what harshness (tṛṣṭá) of speech the reciters (rebhá) produce: the shaft that is born of fury of the mind—with that pierce thou the sorcerers in the heart.

13. Crush away the sorcerers with heat; crush away, O Agni, the demon with flame (háras); crush away with burning (arcís) the false-worshipers; crush away the greatly gleaming ones that feed on lives (? asutṛ́p).

14. Let the gods crush away today the wicked one (vṛjiná); let [his] curses sent forth go back upon him; let shafts strike (ṛch) in the vitals him who steals by [magic] speech; let the sorcerer come within every one's reach.

15. The sorcerer that smears himself (sam-añj) with the flesh of men, who with that of horses, with cattle, who bears [off] the milk of the inviolable [cow], O Agni—their heads cut thou into with flame.