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vii. 96- asthuḥ sth-. Atiṣṭhipan at the end in our text is a misprint for -pam. Ppp. appears to read avīvamam instead. The second half-verse is nearly identical with vi. 77. 1 c, d. ⌊Bp. has vṛkvāú; O., vṛkvā́v; E. and SPP's D., vṛkā́v: this last is, to be sure, not vṛ́kāu 'wolves.' But has not the phraseology of vs. 2 of the preceding hymn (atiṣṭhipaṁ vṛ́kāu) something to do with the placing of this one here?⌋

 

1. Since today, as this sacrifice goes forward, we chose thee here, O knowing hótar, mayest thou go fixedly, and, O mightiest one, do thou, foreknowing, go unto the fixed sacrifice, the soma.

2. Lead us together, O Indra, with mind, with kine, together with patrons, thou of the bay horses, together with well-being, together with what of the prayers (bráhman) is pleasing (-hitá) to the gods, together with the favor of the worshipful gods.

