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3. Be thou propitious to men (púruṣa), propitious to kine, to horses, propitious to all this field (kṣétra); be propitious to us here.

4. Here prosperity, here sap—here be thou best winner of a thousand; make the cattle prosper, O twinning one.

5. Where the good-hearted [and] well-doing revel, quitting disease of their own body—into that world hath the twinning one come into being; let her not injure our men and cattle.

6. Where is the world of the good-hearted, of the well-doing, where of them that offer the fire-offering (agnihotrá-)—into that world hath the twinning one come into being; let her not injure our men and cattle.

Like the preceding hymn, not found in Pāipp. Used (according to the comm., vss. 1-5) by Kāuç. (64.2) in the sava sacrifices, in the four-plate (catuḥçarāva) sava, with setting a cake on each quarter of the animal offered, and one on its navel; and vs. 8 in the vaçā sava ⌊66. 21⌋, on acceptance of the cow. Further, vs. 7 (according to schol. and comm., vss. 7 and 8) appears in a rite (45. 17) at the end of the vaçāçamana, for expiating any error in acceptance of gifts. In Vāit. (3.21), vs. 7 is also used to accompany the acceptance of a sacrificial gift in the parvan sacrifices.

⌊The Anukr. says Uddālako‘ nena ṣaḍṛcena çitipādam avim astāut, thus supporting the reduction of the hymn to the norm of six vss.; see note to vs. 7. From that phrase, perhaps, comes the blundering reading of the London ms. çitipādam avidevatyam: