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17 3. What fountains of the streams flow together, ever unexhausted, with all those confluences we make riches (dhána) flow together for me.

4. What [fountains] of butter (sarpís) flow together, and of milk, and of water, with all those confluences we make riches flow together for me.

1. What devourers, on the night of new moon, have arisen troop-wise (?)—the fourth Agni is the demon-slayer; he shall bless us.

2. The lead Varuṇa blesses; the lead Agni favors; Indra bestowed on me the lead; it, surely, is a dispeller of familiar demons.

3. This overpowers the víṣkandha; this drives off (bādh) the devourers; with this I overpower all the races (jātá) that are the piçācī́'s.