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xi. 1- 19. Spread thyself broad, with great greatness, thousand-backed, in the world of the well-done: grandfathers, fathers, progeny, descendants (upajā́): I am thy fifteen-fold cooker.

20. Thousand-backed, hundred-streamed, unexhausted, [is] the brahmán-rice-dish, god-traveled, heaven-going; them yonder I assign to thee; lessen (?) thou them with progeny; be gracious then to me [as] bringer of tribute.

21. Go thou up to the sacrificial hearth; increase her with progeny; push [away] the demon; set her further forward; by fortune may we surpass all [our] equals; I make [our] haters to fall under foot.

22. Turn thou toward her together with cattle; be opposite to her together with the divinities; let not curse attain thee, nor witchcraft (abhicārá); bear rule (vi-rāj) in thine own field (kṣétra), free from disease.

23. Fashioned by righteousness (ṛtá), set by mind, this was ordained in the beginning the sacrificial hearth of the brahmán-rice-dish; apply,