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7? Thou, O Agni, distinguishing both (kinds of men, the pious and the impious, or the Aryans and the Dasyus), eagerly approachest (Aryan) men at (the time of) the advancing (day), O worshipful one. At the time of) rest thou hast become governable to the man (or, to Manu; or, thou art to be praised by men ); thou art to be smoothed down like a horse by the Usigs.
8. We have pronounced our invocations, I the son of Mâna!, before this mighty Agni. May we obtain (our wishes) through a thousand Rishis. May we find a food-giving . . . rich in quickening rain?
NOTES
The same Rishi. Metre, Trishtubh.—Verse 1=VS. V, 36; VII, 43 ; XL, 16; TS. I, 1, 14, 3; 4, 43, 1 ; TB. II, 8, 2, 3 ; TÅ. I, 8,8; MS. I, 2, 13; IV, 10,2 ; 14, 3. Verse 2= TS. I, 1, 14,4; TB. II, 8, 2, 5; TÅ. X, 2,1; MS. IV, 10, 1; 14. 3. Verse 3=TB. II, 8, 2,4; MS. IV, 14, 3.
Verse 2. Note 1. 'For health and wealth,' M. M.; see vol. xxxii, p. 193.
Verse 3. Note 1. If the accent is correct (Samh. abhyámanta, Pad. abhi amanta), the clause, though containing no subordinating word, must be understood as standing in logical dependence on the following, or—which in our case seems more probable-on the preceding clause. Examples of this kind have been collected by Delbrück, Altindische
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