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viii. 7- 12. Rich in sweets the root, rich in sweets the tip of them, rich in sweets was the middle of the plants; rich in sweets the leaf, rich in sweets the flower of them; partaking of sweet, a drink of nectar (amṛ́ta), let them milk out ghee, food, with milk (gó-) as chief (-purogavá).

13. However many [may be] these herbs upon the earth, let them, thousand-leafed, free me from death, from distress.

14. Let the tigerish amulet of plants, saving, protecting from imprecation, smite far away from us diseases [and] all demons.

15. As at the roaring of a lion do they quake; as at fire do they tremble at [the herbs when] brought; let the yákṣma of kine, of men, go driven by the plants beyond navigable streams.

16. The herbs, becoming freed from Agni Vāiçvānara—go ye stretching over the earth, [ye] whose king is the forest-tree.

17. They who, belonging to the An̄girases, grow on mountains and on plains—let those herbs, rich in milk, propitious, be weal to our heart.

18. Both what plants I know, and what I see with the eye, the unknown and what we are acquainted with, and those in which we know what is brought together—

19. Let all the entire herbs note (budh) my spell (vácas), that we may make this man pass forth out of difficulty.

20. The açvatthá, the darbhá, sóma king of plants, immortal oblation—rice and barley [are] remedial, immortal sons of heaven.