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x. 9- 16. What liver is thine, what two mátasnās, what entrail, and what thine intestines—let them yield etc. etc.

17. What plāçí is thine, what rectum (? vaniṣṭhú), what (two) paunches, and what thy skin—let them yield etc. etc.

18. What marrow is thine, what bone, what flesh, and what blood—let them yield etc. etc.

19. What fore-legs (bāhú) are thine, what shanks (doṣán), what shoulders ⌊áṅsa⌋, and what thy hump—let them yield etc. etc.

20. What neck-bones (grīvā́) are thine, what shoulder-bones ⌊skandhá⌋, what side-bones (pṛṣṭí), and what ribs (párçu)—let them yield etc. etc.

21. What thighs are thine, knee-joints, what hips, and what thy rump—let them yield etc. etc.

22. What tail is thine, what thy tail-tuft, what udder, and what thy teats—let them yield etc. etc.

23. What hind-thighs are thine, what dew-claws, [what] pasterns (ṛchára), and what thy hoofs—let them yield etc. etc.

24. What hide is thine, O thou of the hundred rice-dishes, what hairs, O inviolable one—let them yield etc. etc.

25. Let thy two breasts (kroḍá) be sacrificial cakes, smeared over with sacrificial butter; having made them wings, O divine one, do thou carry him who cooks thee to heaven (dív).

26. What in the mortar, on the pestle, and on the hide, or what rice-grain, [what] kernel in the winnowing-basket, or what the wind, Mātariçvan, blowing (pū), shook (math)—let Agni as hótar make that well-offered.