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a (He I offers) to Indra and Agni on twelve potsherds, an oblation to the All-gods, a cake on twelve
potsherds to Indra Çunasira, milk to Vayu, to Sarya on one potsherd; the sacrificial fee is a plough
for twelve oxen.
b To Agni he offers on eight potsherds, to Rudra an oblation of Gavidhuka, to Indra curds, to
Varuna an oblation made of barley; the sacrificial fee is a cow for draught purposes.
c The gods that sit in the east, led by Agni; that sit in the south, led by Yama; that sit in the west, led
by Savitr; that sit in the north, led by Varuna; that sit above, led by Brhaspati; that slay the
Raksases; may they protect us, may they help us; to them homage; to them hail! [1]
d The Raksases are collected, the Raksases are burnt up; here do I burn up the Raksases.
e To Agni, slayer of Raksases, hail! To Yama, Savitr, Varuna, Brhaspati, the worshipful, the slayer
of Raksases, hail!
f The sacrificial fee is a chariot with three horses.
g On the instigation of the god Savity, with the arms of the Açvins, with the hands of Pusan, I offer
(for) the death of the Raksases; the Raksases are slain; we have killed the Raksases.
h The sacrificial fee is what he wears.
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He offers a cake on twelve potsherds to Dhatr, to Anumati an oblation, to Raka an oblation, to
Sinivali an oblation, to Kuhu an oblation; the sacrificial fee is a pair of cattle. To Agni and Visnu he
offers on eleven potsherds, to Indra and Visnu on eleven potsherds, to Visnu on three potsherds; the
sacrificial fee is a dwarf beast of burden. To Agni and Soma he offers on eleven potsherds, to Indra
and Soma on eleven potsherds, to Soma an oblation; the sacrificial fee is a brown (animal). To
Soma and Pusan he offers an oblation, to Indra and Pusan an oblation, to Pusan an oblation; the
sacrificial fee is a dark (animal). To (Agni) Vaiçvanara he offers on twelve potsherds; the sacrificial
fee is gold. To Varuna (he offers) an oblation made of barley; the sacrificial fee is a horse.
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To Brhaspati he offers an oblation in the house of the Brahman (priest); the sacrificial fee is a
white-backed (animal). (He offers) to Indra on eleven potsherds in the house of a Rajanya; the
sacrificial fee is a bull. To Aditya (he offers) an oblation in the house of the chief wife; the
sacrificial fee is a cow. To Nirrti (he offers) an oblation in the house of the neglected wife, made up
of rice broken by the nails; the sacrificial fee is a black hornless (cow). To Agni (he offers) on eight
potsherds in the house of the leader of the host; the sacrificial fee is gold. To Varuna (he offers) on
ten potsherds in the house of the minstrel; the sacrificial fee is a great castrated (ox). To the Maruts
(he offers) on seven potsherds in the house of the village headman; the sacrificial fee is a dappled
(cow). To Savitr (he offers) on twelve potsherds [1] in the house of the carver; the sacrificial fee is a
speckled (ox). To the Açvins (he offers) on two potsherds in the house of the charioteer; the
sacrificial fee is two born of one mother. To Pusan (he offers) an oblation in the house of the
divider; the sacrificial fee is a black (ox). To Rudra (he offers) an oblation of Gavidhuka in the
house of the thrower of the dice; the sacrificial fee is a speckled (ox) with raised tail. To Indra, the
good protector, he offers a cake on eleven potsherds and to Indra, who frees from distress, (with the
words),
May the king, the slayer of Vrtra,
Be our king and slay the foe.
There is (an offering) to Mitra and Brhaspati; in the milk of a white (cow) with a white calf which
has curdled itself, and in butter which has churned itself, in a dish of Açvattha wood [2] with four
corners (made) of a branch which has fallen of itself, he should scatter husked and unhusked rice
grains; the husked ones in the milk are Brhaspati's, the unhusked in the butter are Mitra's; the Vedi
must be self-made, the strew self-cut, the kindling-stick self-made; the sacrificial fee is the white
(cow) with a white calf.
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