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vii. 97- 7. Váshaṭ to those offered to; váshaṭ to those not offered to; ye way-(gātú-)finding gods, having found the way, go ye on the way.

8. O lord of mind! [put] this offering of ours in heaven among the gods; hail! in heaven—hail! on earth—hail! in atmosphere—hail! in wind may I put [it]; hail!

 

1. The barhis is all (sám) anointed with oblation, with ghee, all by the good Indra, all by the Maruts; [it is] all anointed by the gods, by the all-gods; let the oblation go to Indra: hail!

 

1. Strew thou around, enclose the sacrificial hearth (védi) do not rob the sister lying down yonder; the hótar's seat [is] yellow, golden; those [are] jewels (niṣká) in the sacrificer's world.

The comm. regards the bunch of darbha grass as addressed. Ludwig conjectures the 'sister' to be the uttaravedi; and Henry also understands the same; it is perhaps