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viii. 6- Dār. and Keç. and comm. (p. 636$1$, p. 648$8$) say an amulet of white and yellow mustard; the Ath. Paddh. seems to prescribe a "talisman in the form of a doll made of red and yellow mustard plants" (?) and reaching from the woman's neck to her navel. In Dārila's note on the same passage (35. 20), vs. 18 is specially cited for the same rite. The hymn is not noticed by Vāit.⌋

Translated: Weber, ''Ind. Stud.'' v. 251; Ludwig, p. 523; Henry, 17, 54; Griffith, i. 403.

1. The two spouse-finders which thy mother rubbed up for thee when born (fem.)—for them ⌊tátra⌋ let not the ill-named one be greedy, the aliṅça nor the vatsápa (calf-drinker or -protector?).

2. Palāla (straw) and anupalāla (after-straw), çárku, kóka (cuckoo), malimlucá (robber), palī́jaka, the entwiner (āçréṣa), the wrap-garmented, the bear-necked, the winking one.

3. Approach (saṁ-vṛt) thou not; creep thou not on; creep not down between the thighs; I make for her a remedy, the bajá, expeller of the ill-named.

4. Both the ill-named and the well-named—both seek approach (saṁvṛ́t); the niggards (arā́ya) we smite away; let the well-named seek what is woman's (strāíṇa).

5. The ásura that is black, hairy, tuft-born, also snouted (túṇḍika)—the niggards we smite away from her pudenda, from her buttocks (bhánsas).

6. The after-snuffling, fore-feeling, and the much-licking flesh-eater, the niggards, the dog-kiṣkins, hath the brown bajá made to disappear.