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5. Catch and bring, O preceptor well versed in sorcery! 
6. This is the command of Sri Rama. 
7. This is the command of the goddess Kalika (Chandika) 
of the (cross)-road. 
Direction. 
The patient should drink the water which has been 
charmed with the recital of the aforementioned incantation. 
Remarks. 
when they settled in the Panjab. ‘‘The few instances We 
find in the Rig-Veda of the active use of spells may certainly 
be classed under the head of ‘‘ white ’’—or harmless—magl 
shown in the so-called ‘‘ Song of the Physician ’’—rea 
herb-healer, who wanders about the country with his box of 
ashvattha-wood. The good man makes no secret of the i 
that his chief object is a livelihood. This charming cultur! 
abounds in little homely touches which throw just the side 
lights we are so eager for on the manners and ways ° — 
otherwise unattainable times. The healer begins by fo 
announcing that he will sing the praise of ‘‘ the herbs the ¥@ 
dant’’ which are among the oldest of things.’’ 
+ + « 4 ‘ Hundredfold are your Wi 
thousandfold your growth, endowed with various powe!s : | 
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me this sick man well. e victory 
as to a prize-winning mare. * * * For I must eo | 
cattle, horses, and clothes.* * * te + He | 
be worth much to me if i a | 
you make my sick man W 
in whose _hands herbs are gathered as cuneeas as_noblet ie | 
princes, rajans) in the assembly, he is accounted a skilful he : 
a tamer of fiends and diseases ,—the watery, the milky, sem 
