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ently, O house, not suffer injury, may we with all our heroes live a hundred autumns!
7. Hither to this (house) hath come the tender child, hither the calf along with the other) domestic animals; hither the vessel (full) of liquor, together with bowls of sour milk!
8. Carry forth, O woman, this full jar, a stream of ghee mixed with ambrosia! Do thou these drinkers supply with ambrosia; the sacrifice and the gifts (to the Brahmans) shall it (the house) protect!
9. These waters, free from disease, destructive of disease, do I carry forth. The chambers do I enter in upon together with the immortal Agni (fire).
VI, 142. Blessing during the sowing of seed.
1. Raise thyself up, grow thick by thy own might, O grain! Burst every vessel! The lightning in the heavens shall not destroy thee!
2. When we invoke thee, god grain, and thou dost listen, then do thou raise thyself up like the sky, be inexhaustible as the sea !
3. Inexhaustible shall be those that attend to thee, inexhaustible thy heaps ! They who give thee as a present shall be inexhaustible, they who eat thee shall be inexhaustible !
VI, 79. Charm for procuring increase of grain.
1. May this bounteous Nabhasaspati (the lord of the cloud) preserve for us (possessions) without measure in our house !
2. Do thou, O Nabhasaspati, keep strengthening
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