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947 accent. ⌊The non-elision of a in ahám justifies the count as çakvarī, but hurts the meter, which is none too good if we scan the vs. as 5 × 11.⌋

14. This amulet of udumbára is bound, a hero, to a hero; let it make for us a winning rich in honey, and may it confirm to us wealth having all heroes.

1. Hundred-jointed, hard to be stirred, thousand-leaved, uplifting (?)—the darbhá that is a formidable herb, that I bind on thee in order to [prolonged] life-time.

2. His hair they scatter not forth, they smite not blows on their breast [for him], to whom one yields refuge by the darbhá of uncut leaves.

3. In the sky is thy tuft, O herb; in the earth art thou set (ni-sthā); with thee, that hast a thousand joints, do we increase further our life-time.

4. Thou didst bore through the three skies, also these three earths; by thee do I bore into my enemy's (durhā́rd) tongue [and] utterances (vácas).