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MANDALA I, HYMN 73.
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have broken through the midst of the rock with their floods.
7. Imploring favour from thee, O Agni, the worshipful (gods) have won glory in the sky. They have made Night and Dawn of different shapes; they have joined the black and red colour (to Night and Dawn).
8. And may we, our liberal givers and ourselves, be the mortals whom thou furtherest to wealth, O Agni! Like a shadow thou followest the whole world, having filled the two worlds (Heaven and Earth) and the air.
9. May we, O Agni, guarded by thee, conquer with our racers the racers, with our men the men, with our heroes the heroes (of our enemies). Being masters of the riches which their fathers have conquered, may our rich (givers) reach a hundred winters.
10. May these hymns, O Agni, worshipper (of the gods), be grateful to thee, to thy mind and heart. May we be able to bridle thee, the wellharnessed wealth', acquiring the glory which the gods have assigned us.
NOTES.
The same Rishi and metre.–Verse 5 = MS. IV, 14, 15. Verse 7 = TB. II,7,12, 5. Verse 10 = MS. IV, 14, 15.
Verse 1. Note 1. Agni is compared to wealth acquired by the fathers, being himself pitrivitta, found by the forefathers
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