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VEDIC HYMNS.
MANDALA III, HYMN 4.
ASHTAKA II, ADHYAYA 8, VARGA 22-23.
ÂPRI HYMN.
1. Log by log1 be kind towards us. Flash by flash grant us thy, the Vasu's, favour 2. Bring hither, O god, the gods that we may sacrifice. Sacrifice, O Agni, as a kind friend to thy friends.
2. Thou whom the gods, Varuna, Mitra, Agni, thrice every day bring hither by sacrifice day by day, Tanûnapât, make this our sacrifice honey-sweet, having its abode in ghee1, (this sacrifice) which worships (the gods).
3. (Our adoring) thought rich in all boons goes forward for worshipping as the first the Hotri of the sacred food (il), for saluting the strong bull with adoration and homage. May he, the best sacrificer, incited (by our prayers) sacrifice to the gods1.
4. Upwards your1 course has been directed at the worship; upwards (your) flames2 are gone; ready (for receiving you) is the air3. Or the Hotri has sat down at heaven's navel. We spread out the sacrificial grass which receives the gods.
51. Choosing in their mind the sevenfold work of the Hotris, enlivening everything (the gods) came hither in the right way. (The divine doors3) with men as their ornaments, born at the sacrifices", have come hither and thither to this sacrifice, many of them.
6. Hither (shall come) the two Dawns', the neighbourly (goddesses) of glorious appearance2.
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