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vi. 73- 1. Let Varuṇa come here, Soma, Agni; let Brihaspati with the Vasus come here; come ye together, [his] fellows, all of you, like-minded, unto the fortune of this stern corrector (ugrá cettṛ́).

2. The vehemence (çúṣma) that is within your hearts, the design that has entered into your mind—that I frustrate with the oblation, the ghee; in me, O [my] fellows, be your satisfaction (ramáti).

3. Be ye just here; go not away from us; let Pūshan make [it] pathless for you in the distance; let the lord of the dwelling (vā́stu) call aloud after you; in me, O [my] fellows, be your satisfaction.

1. Together let your bodies be mixed (pṛc), together your minds, together your courses; together hath this Brahmaṇaspati, together hath Bhaga made you come.

2. Concurrence of the mind for you, also concurrence of the heart, also what of Bhaga is wearied (çrāntá)—therewith I make you concur.

Ppp. has, in d, saṁ jñapayāti mām. It is one of the most peculiar and unaccountable of the occasional peculiarities of the pada-text that in d it reads sám॰jñapayāmi, combining the preposition with the verb, though the former has the accent. Of all the mss. noted, only one of SPP's has the usual reading.* Çrāntám in c seems an impossible reading, but even Ppp. gives nothing else. The comm. explains it as 'toil-born