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7. That highest step of Vishṇu the patrons (sūrí) ever behold, like an eye stretched on the sky.

8. From the sky, O Vishṇu, or also from the earth; from the great wide atmosphere, O Vishṇu, fill thy hands abundantly with good things; reach forth hither from the right, hither also from the left.

 

1. Let Iḍā herself dress us with the vow (vratá), [she] in whose place {padá) the pious purify themselves; ghee-footed, able, soma-backed, she, belonging to all the gods, hath approached the offering.

 

1. The vedá [is] well-being, the tree-smiter well-being; the rib [is] sacrificial hearth (védi), the ax our well-being; oblation-making, worshipful, lovers of the offering, let those gods enjoy this offering.

The first half-verse corresponds to the initial clauses of TS. iii. 2. 4$2$: sphyáḥ svastír vighanáḥ svastíḥ párçur védiḥ paraçúr naḥ svastíḥ. By the vedá is doubtless here