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1. Fasten thou up the mouths of the mischief-making ⌊ones⌋; bring (arpay-) this thunderbolt upon our rivals; given by Indra, first, with a hundred rice-dishes, cousin-slaying, the success (gātú) of the sacrificer.

2. Be thy skin the sacrificial hearth, [be] the hairs which [are] thine the barhís; this rein (raçanā́) hath seized thee; let this pressing-stone dance over thee.

3. Be thy tail-tuft the sprinklers; let thy tongue do the cleansing, O inviolable one; do thou, having become clean, fit for sacrifice, go on to heaven, O thou of the hundred rice-dishes.

4. Whoso cooks her of the hundred rice-dishes, he is adapted to the fulfilment of wishes; for all his priests (ṛtvíj), being gratified, go as they should.

5. He ascends the heavenly road (svargá), where is yon triple heaven of the heaven (dív), who, making [her] cake-naveled, gives her of the hundred rice-dishes.