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2. Let Mitra or helpful (? riçā́dās) Varuṇa in concord make him one that dies of old age; so Agni the offerer (hótar), knowing the ways (vayúna), bespeaks all the births of the gods.

3. Thou art master (īç) of earthly cattle, that are born, or also that are to be born; let not breath leave this one, nor expiration; let not friends slay (vadh) this one, nor enemies.

4. Let father heaven, let mother earth, in concord, make thee one that dies of old age; that thou mayest live in the lap of Aditi, guarded by breath and expiration, a hundred winters.

5. This one, O Agni, do thou lead for life-time, for splendor, to dear seed, O Varuṇa, Mitra, king! like a mother, O Aditi, yield (yam) him refuge; O all ye gods, that he be one reaching old age.