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That houses fail us not.
e Do thou [2], O lord of cloud,
Bestow on us strength with kindliness;
Return to us what is lost,
Return wealth to us.
f O god that dost fatten, thou art a lord of a thousandfold prosperity; do thou give us
increase of wealth unfailing, rich in heroes, prosperity abiding through the year.
Yama is Agni, Yama is this (earth); the sacrificer becomes under a debt to Yama in that he strews
the altar with plants; if he were to go away with out burning (them), they would drag him about
bound by the neck [3] in yonder world. In that he burns, (saying) 'The loan which I have not yet
paid', being here, having made requital of the loan to Yama, he goes freed from the debt to the
world of heaven. If he does manifold things as it were, he should offer in the forest (fire) groats
with his hand; the forest (fire) is Agni Vaiçvanara; verily he appeases him. On the Ekastaka the
divider of the days, he should cook a cake of four Çaravas in size, and early with it should fire the
thicket; if [4] it burns, it becomes a good season, if it does not burn, a bad season. By this mode of
prognostication the seers of old used to undertake a long Sattra. He who knowing the seer, the
hearer, the reciter, sacrifices, is united in yonder world with what he has sacrificed and bestowed.
The seer is Agni, the hearer is Vayu, the reciter Aditya; he, who offers knowing thus to them, in
yonder world is united with what be has sacrificed and bestowed. 'May he from in front with the
cloud' [5], he says; (he that is) from in front with the cloud is Agni; verily he says to Agni, 'Guard
this for me.' 'Do thou, O lord of cloud', he says; the lord of cloud is Vayu; verily he says to Vayu,
'Guard this for me.' 'O god, that dost fatten', he says; the god that fattens is yonder Aditya; verily he
says to Aditya, 'Guard this for me.'
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The Special Animal Offerings
a This young one I put around you,
Playing with him that is dear do ye move;
Afflict us not in birth, O ye prosperous ones;
May we rejoice in increase of wealth, in food.
b Homage to thy greatness, to thine eye,
0 father of the Maruts, that do I sing;
Be propitious, with a fair sacrifice may we offer;
Be this oblation acceptable to the gods.
c This was the bundle of the gods,
The germ of the waters smeared upon the plants;
Pusan chose a drop of Soma [1];
A great stone was there then for them.
d Father of calves, husband of cows,
And father too of great gulfs,
Calf, afterbirth, fresh milk, beestings,
Clotted milk, curd, ghee is his seed.
e Thee the cows chose for lordship,
Thee the Maruts, sweet singers, bailed;
Resting on the summit, the pinnacle, of lordly power,
Then O dread one to us assign wealth.
Unsuccessful is his animal offering for whom these (rites) are not performed; successful is the
offering of him for whom they are performed.
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