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IV ADHYAYA, 18 KHANDA, 3.
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5. And, after he has quickly repeated the Mahavyâhritis and the Savitri, having repeatedly immersed (it) therein with this hymn, ‘May he burn away from us pain' (Rig-veda I, 97), he shall drive away the evil from the persons standing under his protection, from left to right, and pour out (the water) to the north.
6. A Madhuparka is the fee for the sacrifice.
KHANDA 18. 1. ‘May summer, winter and spring, autumn and rainy season be well-ordered to us. May we be under the safe protection of these seasons, and may they last (to us) through a hundred years. Svâhâ !
'Beat away, Owhite one, with thy foot, with the forefoot and with the hind-foot, these seven daughters of Varuna and all that belong to the king's tribe. Svåhå!
"To the white one, the son of Vidârva svâhâ ! To Vidârva svâhâ ! To Takshaka Vaisâleya svâhâ ! To Visâla svâhâ !'—with (these words) he sacrifices (oblations) of Ägya.
2. 'May a good winter, a good spring, a good summer be bestowed (on us). May the rains be to us happy rains ; may the autumns be blessed to us.'
3. With (the verse), Blessing on us, Mitra'(Rigveda I, 90, 9), he sweeps (the floor) with a Palâsa branch,
5. Saranyebhyo grihebhyah (read, grihyebhyah) sarvebhyah sakâsât, &c. Narayana.
18, 1. This chapter continues the description of the Pratyavarohana begun in the preceding chapter.
Râgabândhavaih, as our text has, should be corrected into râgabândhavîh; comp. Âsv. II, 3, 3.
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