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599 22. Enjoyable shall he become, likewise shall he eat much food, who shall worship (upa-ās) the everlasting god who gives superiority (uttarā́vant).

23. Everlasting they call him, also may he be at present ever-renewed; day and night are generated (pra-jā) in each other's forms.

24. A hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a hundred million, an innumerable [number], is his own entered into him; that of him they slay, even as he looks on; therefore this god shines (ruc) thus.

25. One thing is more minute (áṇu) than a child (bā́la), also one is hardly (né ’va) seen; than that a more embracing deity, is she dear to me.

26. This beautiful one (f.) [is] unaging, an immortal in the house of a mortal; for whom she [was] made, he lies; he who made [her] grew old.

27. Thou art woman, thou [art] man, thou boy, or also girl; thou, when aged, totterest (vañc) with a staff; thou, when born, becomest facing all ways.

28. Both their father, or also their son; both the chief or also the meanest (kaniṣṭhá) of them; the one god, who has entered into the mind, born the first, and he within the womb.

29. The full from the full he bends up (ud-ac); the full is poured with the full; also that may we know today, whence that is poured out.