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333 employed by Kāuç. (10. 24) at the end of the medhājanana ceremony, with iii. 16 and ix. 1, on rising and wiping the face; also twice (12. 15 and 13. 6) in varcasya rites, with the same two hymns (and is reckoned to both varcasya gaṇas: notes to 12. 10 and 13. 1); further, in the ceremony on beginning Vedic study, with vi. 38, 39, 58 and others (139. 15); and vs. 3 in the savayajñas (68. 7), as expiation for an error in the ceremonial. In Vāit., in the sāutrāmaṇī (30. 13), the hymn accompanies, with vi. 19 and ix. 1. 18, the pouring out of the surā.

Translated: Ludwig, p. 240; Griffith, i. 283.

1. What glory [is] in the mountain, in the aragárāṭas, in gold, in kine, in strong-drink when poured out, [what] honey in sweet-drink, [be] that in me.

2. O ye Açvins, lords of beauty! anoint me with the honey of bees, that I may speak brilliant words among the people.

3. In me [be] splendor, also glory, also the fatness (páyas) that belongs to the offering; let Prajāpati fix (dṛṅh) that in me, as the heaven in the sky.

1. As flesh, as strong-drink, as dice on the gambling-board; as of a lustful man the mind is fastened (ni-han) on a woman—-so let thy mind, O inviolable one (aghnyā́), be fastened on thy calf.

2. As the elephant strains foot with foot of the she-elephant; as of a lustful man etc. etc.