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1. The çatávāra hath by its keenness (téjas) made to vanish the yákṣmas, the demons, mounting together with splendor, an amulet that expels the ill-named.

2. With its two horns it thrusts away the demon, with its root the sorceresses; with its middle it drives off (bādh) the yákṣma; no evil overpasses it.

3. The yákṣmas that are petty, and they that are great, noisy—all of them the çatávāra amulet, slayer of the ill-named, hath made vanish.

4. A hundred heroes it generated; a hundred yákṣmas it scattered away; having slain all the ill-named ones, it shakes down the demons.

5. A golden-horned bull [is] this amulet of çatávāra; having shattered (tṛh) all the ill-named ones, it hath trodden down the demons.

A few of the authorities ⌊some confusing the primary with the vṛddhi-derivative⌋ read in b çatávāras or çatavārás or çātávāras. In c, all the mss. ⌊save perhaps W's B.⌋ read tṛḍhvā́, which SPP. mistakenly emends to tṛḍḍhvā́ (as if one were to emend