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of the earth, fill the air with thy shine, prop the sky with thy light, and uphold the quarters by thy lustre!'- for that one (Agni) indeed does all this.
35. 'Receiving offering, kind-faced, in front,' --that is, 'receiving offering, kind-faced for us, in front;'-'seat thee, O Agni, aright in thine own seat!'-for this (fire-altar) is his (Agni's) own seat: thus, 'do thou rightly seat thee in it!'-'in this higher abode,'—the higher abode, doubtless, is the sky ;-sit ye down, the All-gods and the Sacrificer!'—he thus establishes the Sacrificer together with the All-gods. With two (verses) he deposits it: the significance of this has been explained, with the Vashat-call: the significance of this (will be explained) farther on.
36. He then puts pieces of firewood thereon; for now that he (Agni) had arrived, the gods thereupon gratified him with food, both pieces of firewood and oblations; and in like manner does this (Sacrificer), now that he has arrived, thereupon gratify him with food, both pieces of wood and oblations.
37. He first puts on one of samf-wood (acacia suma). For at that time, when this oblation had been offered, he (Agni) was enkindled and blazed up. The gods were afraid of him, lest he might injure them. They saw this samt tree, and therewith appeased him; and inasmuch as they appeased (sam) him by that sami, it is (called) Samt; and in like manner this (Sacrificer) now appeases him by means of that sami (wood), -just with a view to appeasement, not for food.
38. [He puts it on, with, Våg. S. XVII, 74), “I desire the manifest favour of the admirable
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