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viii. 6- 24. They that creep away from the sun, as a daughter-in-law away from her father-in-law—let both bajá and pin̄gá pierce in into their heart.

25. Pin̄gá, defend thou [the child] in process of birth; let them not make the male female; let not the egg-eaters injure the embryos; drive thou the kimīdíns from here.

26. Childlessness, still-birth, also crying, guilt (aghá), barrenness (? āvayá)—that do thou attach to [our] enemy (ápriya), as if having made a garland from a tree.

1. Those that are brown, and that are bright (çukrá), the red and the spotted, the swarthy, the black herbs—all [of them] do we address (acka-ā-vad).

2. Let them save (trā) this man from the yákṣma sent by the gods—the plants of which heaven has been the father, earth the mother, ocean the root.