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vi. 78-

3. Tvashṭar generated the wife, Tvashṭar [generated] thee as husband for her; let Tvashṭar make for you two a thousand life-times (ā́yus), a long life-time.

1. Let the lord of the cloud (nábhas) here, the fattener, protect us, [grant] unequalledness (?) in our houses.

2. Do thou, O lord of the cloud, maintain for us sustenance (ū́rj) in our houses; let prosperity, let good (vásu) come.

3. O divine fattener, thou art master of thousand-fold prosperity; bestow upon us of that; assign to us of that; of that from thee may we be sharers.

Found also in Pāipp. xix. (with the verse-order 1, 3, 2). The use of the hymn in Kāuç. and Vāit. is obscure and indefinite: the former applies it only (31. 18) in a healing rite for one who is pakṣahata ('wounded in the side'? ⌊Bl. suggests hemiplagia