A History of Indian Literature v1.c8.s3.36

v1.c8.s3.36

"And thou thyself who makest all men yellow, consuming them with
burning heat like Agni,
Thou, Fever! then be weak and ineffective. Pass hence into the realms
below or vanish. [2]
Endowed with universal power! send Fever downward, far away,
The spotty, like red-coloured dust, sprung from a spotty ancestor. [3]
Go, Fever, to the Mūjavans, or, farther, to the Bahlikas,²)
Seek a lascivious Śūdra girl and seem to shake her through and through. [7]
Since thou now cold, now burning hot, with cough besides, hast made us
shake,
Terrible, Fever, are thy darts; forbear to injure us with these. [10]
Go, Fever, with Consumption, thy brother, and with thy sister, Cough,
And with thy nephew Herpes, go away unto that alien folk."³ [12]