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1. BEFRIEND us
with their aids Indra and Agni, Indra and Varuna who receive oblations!
Indra and Soma give health,
strength and comfort, Indra and Pusan be our help in battle.
2 Auspicious
Friends to us be Bhaga, Sathsa, auspicious be Purandhi aid all Riches;
The blessing of the true and
well-conducted, and Aryaman in many forms apparent.
3 Kind unto us
he Maker and Sustainer, and the far-reaching Pair with God-like natures.
Auspicious unto us be Earth and
Heaven, the Mountain, and the Gods' fair invocations.
4 Favour us
Agni with his face of splendour, and Varuva and Mitra and the Asvins.
Favour us noble actions of the
pious, impetuous vita blow on us with favour.
5 Early
invoked, may Heaven and Earth be friendly, and Air's mid-region good for us to
look on.
To us may Herbs and
Forest-Trees be gracious, gracious the Lord Victorious of the region.
6 Be the God
Indra with the Vasus friendly, and, with Adityas, Varuna who blesseth.
Kind, with the Rudras, be the
Healer Rudra, and, with the Dames, may Tvastar kindly listen.
7 Blest unto
us be Soma, and devotions, blest be the Sacrifice, the Stones for pressing.
Blest be the fixing of the
sacred Pillars, blest be the tender Grass and blest the Altar.
8 May the
far-seeing Sun rise up to bless us: be the four Quarters of the sky auspicious.
Auspicious be the firmly-seated
Mountains, auspicious be the Rivers and the Waters.
9 May Adid
through holy works be gracioas, and may the Maruts, loud in song, be friendly.
May Visnu give felicity, and
Pusan, the Air that cherisheth our life, and Vayu.
10 Prosper us
Savitar, the God who rescues, and let the radiant Mornings be propitious.
Auspicious to all creatures be
Parjanya, auspicious be the field's benign Protector.
11 May all the
fellowship of Gods befriend us, Sarasvati, with Holy Thoughts, be gracious.
Friendly be they, the Liberal
Ones who seek us, yea, those who dwell in heaven, on earth, in waters.
12 May the
great Lords of Truth protect and aid us: blest to us be our horses and our
cattle.
Kind be the pious
skilful-handed Rbhus, kind be the Fathers at our invocations.
13 May
Aja-Ekapad, the God, be gracious, gracious the Dragon of the Deep, and Ocean.
Gracious be he the swelling
Child of Waters, gracious be Prsni who hath Gods to guard her.
14 So may the
Rudras, Vasus, and Adityas accept the new hymn which we now are making.
May all the Holy Ones of earth
and heaven, and the Cow's offipring hear our invocation.
15 They who of
Holy Gods are very holy, Immortal, knowing Law, whom man must worship, -
May these to-day give us broad
paths to travel. Preserve us evermore, ye Gods, with blessings.
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