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1. To mind, to thought, to device (dhī́), to design, and to intention, to opinion (matí), to instruction (çrutá), to sight, would we pay worship with oblation.

2. To expiration, to perspiration (vyāná), to breath the much nourishing, to Sarasvatī the wide extending, would we pay worship with oblation.

3. Let not the seers who are of the gods leave us, who are self (tanū́) protecting, self-born of our self; O immortal ones, attach yourselves to us mortals; grant life-time (ā́yus) in order to our further living.

1. As the string from the bow, do I relax (ava-tan) fury from thy heart, that, becoming like-minded, we (two) may hold together (sac) like friends.