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vii. 14-

1. Unto this god Savitar, of poets' skill (-krátu), of true impulse, treasure-bestowing, unto the dear one, I, in the two oṇí ' s, sing (arc) [my] prayer.

2. He whose lofty light (amáti), gleam, shone brightly in his impelling—he, gold-handed, of good insight, fashioned the heaven with beauty.

3. For thou didst impel, O god, for the first father—height for him, width for him; then unto us, O Savitar (impeller), do thou day by day impel desirable things, abundance of cattle.

4. May the household god, the desirable Savitar, assign to the Fathers treasure, dexterity, life-times; may he drink the soma; may [it] exhilarate him at the sacrifice; any wanderer walks (kram) in his ordinance.

Ppp. differs only by combining pitṛbhyā ’yūṅṣi in b; but AÇS. (v. 18. 2) and ÇÇS. (viii. 3. 4: AB. iii. 29. 4 quotes the pratīka only) have important and in part preferable