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vii. 60- 6. Be ye just here; go not after; adorn yourselves with all forms; I shall come along with what is excellent; become ye more abundant through me.

 

1. In that, O Agni, penance with penance, we perform additional (?) penance, may we be dear to what is heard, long-lived, very wise.

2. O Agni, we perform penance, we perform additional penance—we, hearing things heard, long-lived, very wise.

 

1. This Agni, lord of the good, household priest, conquered them of increased virility (?), as a chariot-warrior [conquers] footmen; set down on earth in the navel, brightly shining, let him put under foot them who desire to fight [us].

Our pādas a, c, d are b, c, d of a verse that is found in VS. xv. 51, TS. iv. 7. 13$1$, MS. ii. 12. 4 with the following first pāda: ā́ vācó mádhyam aruhad bhuraṇyús; they also read cékitānas for vṛddhávṛṣṇas, and, at beginning of c, pṛṣṭhé pṛthivyā́s, and TS.