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307 1. Let Vāiçvānara, for our aid, come forth hither from the distance—Agni, unto our good praises.

2. Vāiçvānara, our ally (sajū́s), hath come unto this our offering—Agni, at our songs, in our distresses.

3. May Vāiçvānara shape the praise and song of the An̄girases; may he extend to them brightness (dyumná) [and] heaven (svàr).

1. To Vāiçvānara, the righteous, lord of right, of light, we pray for unfailing heat (gharmá).

2. He shaped himself unto all things; he, the controlling one, sends out the seasons, drawing out the vigor (váyas) of the sacrifice.

The verse is corrupt in Ppp., but the second and third pādas in it exchange places, as they do in the SV. version. SV. also reads, for a, yá idám pratipaprathé, and has svàr for váyas in c; it and all the other versions read ṛtū́n; our ṛtū́ṅr is quoted in Prāt. ii. 29, and in the comment to i. 68. The comm. reads in a viçvāḥ and cakṛpe, and some of our authorities (P.I.K.), with the great majority of SPP's, also have víçvāḥ;