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617 O woman, the cleansed shoulder-bearer (?); on that set the rice-dish of them of the gods.

24. Aditi's hand, this second ladle (srúc), which the seven seers, being-makers, made—let that spoon, knowing the members of the rice-dish, collect it upon the sacrificial hearth.

25. Let them of the gods sit by thee, a cooked (çṛtá) oblation; having crept out of the fire, sit thou forward again to them; purified by soma, sit thou in the belly of the worshipers (brahmán); let not them of the seers, partakers (prāçitṛ́) of thee, suffer harm.

26. O king Soma, strew harmony for them, for whatsoever good Brahmans shall sit by thee; with good call, I call loudly to the brahmán-rice-dish the seers, them of the seers, born from penance (tápas).

27. These cleansed purified worshipful maidens I seat in separate succession in the hands of the priests (brahmán); with what desire I now pour you on, may Indra here with the Maruts grant me that.

28. This my light (jyótis), immortal gold, cooked (pakvá) from the field, this my desire-milker; this riches I deposit in the Brahmans; I make a road to the Fathers that is heaven-going.