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1. When thou, O Brihaspati, didst release [us] from Yama's otherworld existence, from malediction, the Açvins bore back death from us, O Agni, physicians of the gods, mightily.

2. Walk (kram) ye (two) together; leave not the body; let thy breath and expiration be here allies; live thou increasing a hundred autumns; [be] Agni thy best over-ruling shepherd.

3. Thy life-time that is set over at a distance—[thy] expiration, breath, let them come again—Agni hath taken that from the lap of perdition; that I cause to enter again in thy self.

4. Let not breath leave this man; let not expiration, leaving him low, go away; I commit him to the seven sages (ṛ́ṣi); let them carry him happily (svastí) unto old age.