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2. O Indra-and-Varuṇa, of the bull soma, most rich in sweet, pour in, ye bulls; here is your beverage (ándhas), poured about; sitting on this barhís, do ye revel.

 

1. Whoever shall curse us not cursing, and whoever shall curse us cursing, like a tree smitten by a thunderbolt, let him dry up from the root.

 

Found also in Pāipp. iii. (in the verse-order 1, 2, 6, 3, 4, 5). Used by Kāuç. several times: first, it* is muttered (24. 11) in front of the house by one who has been absent for some time, he taking fuel in his hands; second, it again accompanies the action of taking fuel, in a rite for the harmony of all inmates of the house (42. 8); third, in the ceremony of preparing duly the house-fire (72. 5), with the direction iti prapādayati, for making the persons concerned enter the house; fourth, in the pitṛmedha (82. 15), with the same direction; fifth, in the piṇḍapitṛyajña (89. 11), at the end, on entering the house; further, the schol. add it (note to 8. 23) to the vāstugaṇa, and (note to 19. 1)