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[Chap. XXXI.
paddy and boiled Śáli rice and the nurse as well as the child should be bathed in a junction of rivers. The Mantra (to be recited in course of worship) runs as follows: — "May the goddess, Revati, of dark complexion who is clad in parti-coloured garments and garlands of flowers of various colours and painted with anointments of various kinds and with oscillating earrings, be pleassd with thee. May the goddess, Revati, who is tall, drooping and terrible-looking, and who is the mother of many sons be always propitious to thee." 2.
Thus ends the thirty-first chapter of the Uttara-Tantra in the Suśruta Samhitá which deals with the Therapeutics of an attack by Revati.
