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MANDALA I, HYMN 79.
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MANDALA I, HYMN 79. ASHTAKA I, ADHYÀYA 5, VARGA 27-28.
I. 1. The golden-haired in the expanse of the atmosphere, the roaring? snake, is hasting (through the air) like the wind; the brightly resplendent watcher of the dawn, he who is like the glorious, ever active and truthful (goddesses)*
2. By thy goings the beautifully-winged (birds) were disparaged'; the black bull 2 has roared, when here 3 (all this happened). He has come as if with the bounteous smiling (women) 4 The mists fly, the clouds thunder.
3. When they have led him, who swells ? with the milk of Rita, on the straightest paths of Rita, then Aryaman, Mitra, and Varuna, he who walks round the earth ?, fill the leather-bag (the cloud) in the womb of the lower (atmosphere [?]) 3.
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4. Agni, who art lord of booty, rich in cows, young son of strength ?, bestow on us, O Gâtavedas, great glory.
5. Being lighted, a Vasu, a sage, Agni who is to be magnified by (pious) words, O (god) with many faces, shine to us so that riches may be ours.
6. Reigning' by night by thy own power, O Agni, and at the break of dawn, O god with sharp teeth, burn against the sorcerers.
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