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419 1. Rākā I call with good call, with good praise; let the fortunate one hear us; let her willingly note; let her sew the work with a needle that does not come apart; let her give a hero of hundred-fold value, worthy of praise.

2. The well-adorned favors that are thine, O Rākā, wherewith thou givest good things to thy worshiper,—with them do thou come to us today favoring, granting, O fortunate one, thousand-fold prosperity.

 

1. Let the spouses of the gods, eager, help us; let them help us forward unto offspring (? tují), unto winning of booty (vā́ja); they that are of earth, they that are in the sphere (vratá) of the waters—let those well-invoked goddesses bestow on us protection.

2. And let the women (gnā́) partake (vī), whose husbands are gods—Indrāṇī, Agnāyī, Açvinī the queen; let Ródasī, let Varuṇānī listen; let the goddesses partake, [at] the season that is the wives'.

 

Most of the verses (viz. excepting 4 and 6) are found in Pāipp., but not together: 5, 1, 2 in xx.; 3 also in xx., but in another part; 7 in xvii.; 8, 9 in i. The hymn is plainly made up of heterogeneous parts, pieced together with a little adaptation. Used