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105 at MGS. ii. 11.12 ff. (cf. p. 148 ihāiva).⌋ The hymn is reckoned by Kāuç. (8. 23) to the vāstoṣpatīya hymns, and is used with them in a house-building ceremony (43. 4 ff.; the "two dhruvas" mentioned in 43. 11 ⌊are doubtless the same as the "two dhruvas" mentioned in⌋ 136. 7; ⌊and the latter⌋ are, according to the comm. to vi. 87, not vss. 1 and 2, but hymns vi. 87 and 88); vss. 6 and 8 are specially quoted (43. 9, 10). Vāit. (16. 1, in the agniṣṭoma sacrifice) gives a pratīka which is nearly that of vs. 8, but with adhvaryo for nāri. ⌊Vs. 9, q. v., occurs in Ppp. with others of our ix. 3.⌋

Translated: Ludwig, p. 463; Zimmer, p. 150; Weber, xvii. 234; Grill, 59, 108; Griffith, i. 97; Bloomfield, 140, 343.—Cf. Hillebrandt, Veda-chrestomathie, p. 44; and Bloomfield's references; also M. Winternitz, Mittheilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien, vol. xvii, p. [38].

1. Just here I fix (ni-mi) [my] dwelling (çā́lā) firm; may it stand in security, sprinkling ghee; unto thee here, O dwelling, may we resort (sam-car) with all our heroes, with good heroes, with unharmed heroes.

2. Just here stand thou firm, O dwelling, rich in horses, in kine, in pleasantness, in refreshment, in ghee, in milk; erect thyself (ut-çri) in order to great good-fortune.

3. A garner (? dharunī́) art thou, O dwelling, of great roof, of cleansed grain; to thee may the calf come, may the boy, may the kine, streaming in at evening.

4. This dwelling let Savitar, Vayu, Indra, Brihaspati fix, foreknowing;