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vii. 51- 58; see under 44. The comm. quotes it also from Çānti K. (15) in a sacrifice to the planets (grahayajñe), and from Nakṣ. K. ⌊should be Çānti⌋ (18), in a maāçānti called bārhaspatyā.

Translated: Henry, 19, 78; Griffith, i. 351.

1. Let Brihaspati protect us round about from behind, also from above, from below, against the malignant one; let Indra from in front and from midway make wide space for us, a companion for companions.

 

1. Harmony for us with our own men, harmony with strangers—harmony, O Açvins, do ye here confirm in us.

2. May we be harmonious with mind, with knowledge (cikitú); may we not fight (?) with the mind of the gods; let not noises arise in case of much destruction (?); let not Indra's arrow fall, the day being come.

