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MANDALA IV, HYMN 5.
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. MANDALA IV, HYMN 5. ASHTAKA III, ADHYÁYA 5, VARGA 1-3.
1. How may we unanimously offer mighty light? to bountiful Agni Vaisvânara ? With his mighty perfect growth he supports the high banklike a pillar.
2. Do not reproach Him, the self-dependent one, who has given this bounty to me, the god to the mortal, the clever one to the simple, the wise immortal, the most manly, restless? Agni Vaisvânara.
3. Agni, the sharp-pointed, the mighty bull with thousandfold sperm, has proclaimed to me the great, doubly-powerful: Sâman, the prayer, having found, as it were, the hidden track of a cow ?
4. May Agni, he who is rich in wealth, whose teeth are sharp, consume with his hottest flames those who violate the laws founded by Varuna, the beloved, firm (laws) of attentive Mitra.
5! They who roam about like brotherless girls ?, of evil conduct like women who deceive their husbands, being wicked, sinful, and untrue—they have created for themselves this deep places.
6. On me, however small, but innocent, thou, O purifying Agni, hast fiercely placed this mighty, deep, vigorous prayer, like a heavy burden, this Prishtha', consisting of seven elements ?
7. Let our prayer which purifies Him, through the power of mind inherent in it), reach Him who is the common (property of all men) alike, the good (name?) of Prisni on the skin of the herbs, on the summit of the ...'.
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