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vi. 21- 2. Thou art the most excellent of remedies, the best of plants; as Soma, lord (? bhága) in the night-watches (yā́ma), like Varuṇa among the gods.

2. O ye wealthy (revánt) ones, doing no violence, desirous to bestow ye desire to bestow; both are ye hair-fasteners, and also hair-increasers.

1. Black the down-track, the yellow eagles, clothing themselves in waters, fly up to the sky; they have come hither from the seat of righteousness (ṛtá); then, forsooth, with ghee they deluged the earth.

2. Ye make the waters rich in milk, the herbs propitious, when ye bestir yourselves, O golden-backed Maruts; do ye lavish (pinv) both sustenance and good-will there, where, O manly Maruts, ye pour honey.

3. Water-swimming [are] the Maruts; send ye that rain which shall fill all the hollows; the gláhā shall bestir itself, like a girl that is thrust, thrusting the éru, like wife with husband.

The text of this verse is hopelessly corrupt, and all attempts to make connected sense of the second half must apparently be (like that of Pischel in Ved. Stud. i. 81 ff.) forced and unsuccessful. ⌊Baunack, KZ. xxxv. 532, may also be consulted.⌋ The version of