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x. 5- 38. I turn toward the quarters full of light; let them yield me property, let them etc. etc.

39. I turn toward the seven seers; let them yield etc. etc.

40. I turn toward the bráhman; let it yield etc. etc.

41. I turn toward the Brahmans; let them yield etc. etc.

42. Whom we hunt, him will we lay low with deadly weapons; by our spell (bráhman) have we made him fall (pad) into the opened mouth of the most exalted one.

43. The missile hath closed upon him with the two tusks of Vāiçvānara; let this offering (ā́huti) devour him, the very powerful divine fuel.

44. King Varuṇa's bond art thou; do thou bind so-and-so, of such-and-such lineage, son of such-and-such mother, in food, in breath.

45. What food of thine, O Lord of earth (bhū́), dwells upon the earth (pṛthivī́)—of that, O lord of earth, do thou furnish unto us, O Prajāpati.

46. The heavenly waters have I honored; with sap have we been mingled; rich in milk, O Agni, have I come; unite me here with splendor.

47. Unite me, O Agni, with splendor, with progeny, with life-time; may the gods know me as such; may Indra know, together with the seers.

48. What, O Agni, the pair utter in curses today, what harshness of speech the reciters produce: the shaft that is born of fury of the mind—with that pierce thou the sorcerers in the heart.