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VEDIC HYMNS.
MANDALA I, HYMN 95.
ASHTAKA I, ADHYÅYA 7, VARGA 1-2.
1. Two (sisters) of different shapes wander along, pursuing a good aim. The one and the other suckles the calf. With the one (the calf) is golden, moving according to its wont 2. With the other it is seen clear, full of fine splendour.
2. The ten unwearied 1 young women ? have brought forth this widely-spread germ of Tvashtri 3. Him, the sharp-faced (Agni) who is endowed with his own splendour, the shining one, they carry around among men.
3. They celebrate his three births: one in the sea, one in heaven, one in the waters? In the eastern region ? he commanding determines the seasons of the dwellers on earth by his present power 3
4. Who among you has understood this hidden (god)? The calf has by itself given birth to its mothers ? The germ of many (mothers), the great seer, moving by his own strength, comes forward from the lap of the active ones 8.
5'. The fair (child Agni) grows up visibly in them in his own glory, standing erect in the lap of the down-streaming (waters). Both (Heaven and Earth) Aed away in fear of the son of) Tvashtri?, when he was born, but turning back they caress the lion.
6. They caress him both, like two kind women; like lowing cows they have approached him in their own way. He has become the lord of all
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