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427 8. Thou that strikest (pra-hṛ) with both, with both tail and mouth—in thy mouth is no poison; how then may there be in thy tail-receptacle?

 

1. What has gone wrong (vi-kṣubh) on the part of me speaking with expectation, what of [me] going about among people begging, what in myself of my body is torn apart—that may Sarasvatī fill up with ghee.

2. Seven flow for the Marut-accompanied young one (çíçu); for the father the sons have made to understand righteous things; both indeed bear rule over this of both kinds; both strive, both prosper (puṣ) of it.

 

1. O Indra-and-Varuṇa, soma-drinkers, this pressed soma, intoxicating, drink ye, O ye of firm courses; let your chariot, the sacrifice (? adhvará), for the god-feast, approach toward the stall (svásara), to drink. 