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MANDALA I, HYMN 146.
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MANDALA I, HYMN 146.
ASHTAKA II, ADHYAYA 2, VARGA 15.
1. I praise Agni who has three heads and seven rays (or reins)1, who is without flaw, sitting in the lap of his parents" and of whatever moves or is firm, who has filled (with his light) all the lights of Heaven.
2. The big bull has grown up to them1; the ageless one who from here (from this world) distributes his blessings, the tall has stood up erect. He puts down his feet on the surface of the wide (Earth); his red ones2 lick the udder (the cloud?).
3. Walking towards their common calf the two well-established1 milch-cows2 walk about in different directions. They measure interminable paths; they have invested themselves with all great desires.
4. Wise poets1 follow his track2 who in manifold ways protect the ageless one with their hearts. Wishing to acquire him they have searched the river 3. He the Sun became visible to them, to the men'.
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5. He is worthy to be looked for, round about in his race-courses, the noble who is to be magnified', the great one', in order that the small may live, as he, the all-visible liberal lord, has become a progenitor for those germs in many places.
NOTES.
The same Rishi. The metre is Trishtubh.-No verse occurs in the other Samhitas.
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