पदार्थान्वयभाषाः - यथा सद्वैद्या ब्रूयुस्तथा वयं शुक्रेषु रोपणाकासु मे हरिमाणं दध्मस्यथो हारिद्रवेषु मे मम हिरमाणं निदध्मसि ॥१२॥

पदार्थान्वयभाषाः - Our consumptive and bilious diseases we attribute to abuse, fear, infatuation, schizophrenia, infect any severe mental disturbance, and for cure we assign these to green and yellow birds, and green and yellow fluids, soma, sandal, acasia sirissa and turmeric, and close it with cicatrix.

पदार्थान्वयभाषाः - (शुकेषु ) शुक्रवत् कृतेषु कर्मसु = In parrot-like actions as explained above. ( रोपणाकासु ) रोपणं समन्तात् कामयन्ते तासु क्रियासु लिप्तासु ओषधीषु = Ointments and other medicines. ( हारिद्रवेषु ) ये हरन्ति द्रवन्ति द्रावयन्ति च = Which take away pain and disease. Other translators simply translate the Mantra as 'let us transfer the yellowness (of my body) to the parrots, to the starlings, or to the Haritala trees.' (Wilson). “To parrots and to starlings let us give away my yellowness or this my yellowness let us transfer to Haritala trees" (Griffith). But there is not much sense in it शुक, रोपणाका and हारिद्रव seem to indicate a group of herbs, medicines and trees by the proper use of which heart disease, jaundice and other diseases may be checked and cured according to the Ayurvedic literature. In the Atharva Veda the reading in the text is सुक instead of शुक which means that which gives pleasure well.