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necessary fast, etc. with the recital of the following Mantra: — "O thou, the trusted and beloved friend of the god Skanda, O Skandápasmára, O thou ugly-faced one whom the world knows by the epithet of Visákha, may good befall this child in distress." 2.
Thus ends the twenty-ninth chapter of the Uttara-Tantra in the .Sus'ruta Samhitá which deals with the Therapeutics of an attack by Skandápasmára.
