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MANDALA I, HYMN 141.
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MANDALA I, HYMN 141. ASHTAKA II, ADHYÅYA 2, VARGA 8-9.
1. Lo, that beautiful splendour of the god, when he was born of strength, has truly come to be a wondrous sight. Though he slinks awayè, the prayer goes straight to him They have led forward the flowing streams of Rita.
2. The powerful one', rich in food, the true (friend of men) has entered the wondrous (body)?. His second (form of existence) is in the seven kind mothers. The ten young femaleshave brought the third (form) of this bull forth, him the guardian, in order to milk him.
3. When the rulers, the liberal lords brought him forth by their power out of the depth, out of the buffalo's shape!, when from of old2 at the purification of the sweet drink 8 Mâtarisvan produces the hidden one (i.e. Agni) by attrition
4. When he is led forward from the highest father', he clinibs up the ..., the plants in his (or, in their ?) houses. When both (Heaven and Earth or the two Aranis ?) promote his birth, then the youngest one became bright by his heat“.
5. Then he entered upon the mothers 1 in whom he the bright one grew up far and wide unimpaired?. When he has climbed up to the former (mothers) who from of old incite (him), he runs down in the younger, later (or, nearer) ones.
61. Then in the strivings for the day, they choose him Hotri. As if to swell their good fortune they
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