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501 21. Ye rise up (ud-hā); it thunders, it roars at [you], O herbs! when, O ye children of the spotted one, Parjanya favors you with seed.

22. Of this amṛ́ta we make this man to drink the strength; now do I make a remedy, that he may be one of a hundred years (-hāyaná).

23. The boar knows the plant; the mongoos knows the remedial [herb]; what ones the serpents, the Gandharvas know, those I call to aid for him.

24. What [herbs] of the An̄girases the eagles [know], what heavenly ones the ragháṭs know, what ones the birds, the swans know, and what all the winged ones, what herbs the wild beasts know—those I call to aid for him.

25. Of how many herbs the inviolable kine partake (pra-āç), of how many the goats and sheep, let so many herbs, being brought, extend protection to thee.

26. In how many ⌊herbs⌋ human physicians (bhiṣáj) know a remedy, so many, all-remedial, do I bring unto thee.

27. Rich in flowers, rich in shoots (prasū́-), rich in fruits, also those lacking fruits—like joint mothers, let them milk unto this man in order to his freedom from harm.

28. I have taken thee up out of what has five çalas, and also out of what has ten çalas, also out of Yama's fetter, out of all offense against the gods.