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VEDIC HYMNS.
MANDALA III, HYMN 7. ASHTAKA III, ADHYÅYA 1, VARGA 1-2.
1. They who have risen out of the drink of the white-backed one, have entered the two parents, the seven sounds. The (all-)encompassing parents come together; they go forth to aspire after long life!
2. The milch-cows dwelling in heaven' are the mares of the manly one. He has bestridden the goddesses who carry the sweet (food) Thee who livest in peace in the abode of Rita, the one cows circumambulates, making her way.
3. He has mounted the (mares) that became well-manageable, the wise lord, the finder of riches. He with the dark blue back, with many faces, has made them depart from the drink of the brushwood
4. Giving mighty vigour to the never-ageing son of Tvashtrii, the streams? carry Him the firmly fixed one. Flashing in his abode with his limbs he has entered upon the two worlds as if they were one.
5. They know friendship towards the manly, the red one, and they delight in the command of ruddy (Agni), (the gods) shining from heaven, resplendent with bright shine, to whose host Ilà belongs, the mighty praise.
6. And finding it out by following the noise they brought to the great one's great parents a song of praise, when the bull about nightfall (?) has grown strong according to the singer's own law'.
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