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1. INDRA and
Visnu, at my task's completion I urge you on with food and sacred service.
Accept the sacrifice and grant
us riches, leading us on by unobstructed pathways.
2 Ye who
inspire all hymns, Indra and Visnu, ye vessels who contain the Soma juices,
May hymns of praise that now
are sung address you, the lauds that are recited by the singers.
3 Lords of
joy-giving draughts, Indra and Visnu, come, giving gifts of treasure, to the
Soma.
With brilliant rays of hymns
let chanted praises, repeated with the lauds, adorn and deck you.
4 May your
foe-conquering horses bring you hither, Indra and Visnu, sharers of the
banquet.
Of all our hymns accept the
invocations list to my prayers and hear the songs I sing you.
5 This your deed,
Indra-Visnu, must be lauded: widely ye strode in the wild joy of Soma.
Ye made the firmament of larger
compass, and made the regions broad for our existence.
6 Strengthened
with sacred offerings, IndraVisnu, first eaters, served with worship ana
oblation,
Fed with the holy oil,
vouchsafe us riches ye are the lake, the vat that holds the Soma.
7 Drink of
this meath, O Indra, thou, and Visnu; drink ye your fill of Soma,
Wonder-Workers.
The sweet exhilarating juice
hath reached you. Hear ye my prayers, give ear unto my calling.
8 Ye Twain
have conquered, ne'er have yc been conquered: never hath either of the Twain
been vanquished.
Ye, Indra-Visnu, when ye fought
the battle, produced this infinite with three divisions.
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