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7. Weal for us be Mitra, weal Varuṇa, weal Vivasvant, weal the destroyer (ántaka), [weal] the portents from earth and from atmosphere, weal for us the planets (?) moving in the sky.

8. Weal for us be the quaking (vip) earth, and weal what is meteor-smitten; weal be the red-milked kine, weal the earth when cleaving down.

9. Be the meteor-smitten asterism weal for us; weal for us the enchantments and weal be the witchcrafts; weal for us the buried spells (valagá), weal the meteors; and weal be for us the land-plagues.

Literally, 'the afflictions (upasarga) of a region.' All the mss. read in a ulkā́bhíh (p. ulkā́: abhí॰h-), which SPP. accordingly adopts; the comm. again (as in 8 b) regards it as a compound, which it is unquestionably meant to be, and which our text gives by emendation; the prefix abhi suits the situation, as nir (8 b) did not. In c, SPP. has the better accent nikhātās, with a large minority of his mss.; none of ours give it, and we accepted nikhātā́s, since it is not without support elsewhere. Our valagā́s was an emendation for valgā́s; but our two pada-mss. ⌊D.s.m.L.⌋ compared later, have valagā́ḥ,