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125 Agni receives in order to give them to the various gods. In our edition, an accent-mark belonging under ā of āhús in a has slipped aside to the left.

5. Thou on whom as priest (hótar) agreed with their mind the thirteen kinds of beings (bhāuvaná), the five races of men (mānavá): to the splendor-bestowing, glorious one, rich in pleasantness—to those fires be this oblation made.

6. To him whose food is oxen, whose food is cows, to the soma-backed, the pious: to those of whom the one for all men (vāiçvānará-) is chief—to those fires be this oblation made.

7. They who move on along the sky, the earth, the atmosphere, along the lightning; who are within the quarters, who within the wind—to those fires be this oblation made.

8. Gold-handed Savitar, Indra, Brihaspati, Varuṇa, Mitra, Agni, all the gods, the Angirases, do we call; let them appease (çam) this flesh-eating fire.

9. Appeased is the flesh-eating, appeased the men-injuring fire; so also the one that is of all conflagrations, him, the flesh-eating, have I appeased.

10. The mountains that are soma-backed, the waters that lie supine,