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when we do our work. Protect us always, ye (gods), and give us welfare. Svâhâ !
(d) Driving away calamity, Vâstoshpati, assuming all shapes, be a kind friend to us. Svâhâ !'
8. He makes offerings of the mess of cooked food (with the following Mantras):
(a) 'Agni, Indra, Brihaspati, the Visve devâs I invoke, Sarasvati and Vagi. Give me a dwellingplace, ye vigorous ones. Svâhâ !
(b) •To all the divine hosts of serpents, to the Himavat, the Sudarsana (mountain), and the Vasus, Rudras, Adityas, Îsâna with his companions, to all these I apply. Give me a dwelling-place, ye vigorous ones. Svâhâ !
(c) 'To forenoon and afternoon both together with noon, to evening and midnight, to the goddess of dawn with her wide path, to all these I apply. Give me a dwelling-place, ye vigorous ones. Svâhâ!
(d) 'To the Creator and the Changer, to Visvakarman, to the herbs and trees, to all these I apply. Give me a dwelling-place, ye vigorous ones. Svâhâ !
(e) 'To Dhâtri and Vidhâtri, and to the Lord of treasures together with them, to all these I apply. Give me a dwelling-place, ye vigorous ones. Svâhâ !
(f) 'As a lucky, a happy (place), give me this dwelling-place, Brahman and Pragâpati, and all deities. Svâhâ !'
9. After he has partaken (of the sacrificial food), let him put into a brass vessel the different things which he has brought together, Udumbara leaves with strong liquor, green turf, cowdung, curds,
8 a. Vâgî is, as the name shows, the goddess of quick vigour. Gayarâma explains Vâgî, a name of Sîtâ, as a personification of food.
b. Comp. Âsvalâyana II, 1, 14. On gagada, comp. above, $ 4.
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