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1. SAY, bringing sacrifice to bounteous
Rudra, This juice for drink to you whose wrath is fleeting!
With Dyaus the Asura's Heroes I have lauded the Maruts as
with prayer to Earth and Heaven.
2 Strong to exalt the early invocation are
Night and Dawn who show with varied aspect.
The Barren clothes her in wide-woven raiment, and fair Morn
shines with Surya's golden splendour.
3 Cheer us the Roamer round, who strikes at
morning, the Wind delight us, pourer forth of waters!
Sharpen our wits, O Parvata and Indra. May all the Gods
vouchsafe to us this favour.
4 And Ausija shall call for me that famous
Pair who enjoy and drink, who come to brighten.
Set ye the Offspring of the Floods before you; both Mothers
of the Living One who beameth.
5 For you shall Ausija call him who
thunders, as, to win Arjuna's assent, cried Ghosa.
I will invoke, that Pusan may be bounteous to you, the rich
munificence of Agni.
6 Hear, Mitra-Varuna, these mine
invocations, hear them from all men in the hall of worship.
Giver of famous gifts, kind hearer, Sindhu who gives fair
fields, listen with all his waters 1
7 Praised, Mitra, Varuna! is your gift, a
hundred cows to the Prksayamas and the Pajra.
Presented by car-famous Priyaratha, supplying nourishment,
they came directly.
8 Praised is the gift of him the very
wealthy: may we enjoy it, men with hero children:
His who hath many gifts to give the Pajras, a chief who
makes me rich in cars and horses.
9 The folk, O Mitra-Varuna, who hate you,
who sinfully hating pour you no libations,
Lay in their hearts, themselves, a wasting sickness, whereas
the righteous gaineth all by worship.
10 That man, most puissant, wondrously
urged onward, famed among heroes, liberal in giving,
Moveth a warrior, evermore undaunted in all encounters even
with the mighty.
11 Come to the man's, the sacrificer's
calling: hear, Kings of Immortality, joy-givers!
While ye who speed through clouds decree your bounty
largely, for fame, to him the chariot rider.
12 Vigour will we bestow on that adorer
whose tenfold draught we come to taste, so spake they.
May all in whom rest splendour and great riches obtain
refreshment in these sacrifices.
13 We will rejoice to drink the tenfold
present when the twicefive come bearing sacred viands.
What can he do whose steeds and reins are choicest? These,
the all-potent, urge brave men to conquest.
14 The sea and all the Deities shall give
us him with the golden car and neck bejewelled.
Dawns, hasting to the praises otthe pious, be pleased with
us. both offerers and singers.
15 Four youthful sons of Masarsara vex me,
three, of the king, the conquering Ayavasa.
Now like the Sun, O Varuna and Mitra, your car hath shone,
long-shaped and reined with splendour.
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