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1. The Vedic student goes on setting in motion (iṣ) both firmaments; in him the gods become like-minded; he maintains earth and heaven; he fills his teacher with fervor (tápas).

2. The Fathers, the god-folk, all the gods individually assemble after the Vedic student; the Gandharvas went after him, thirty-three, three hundred, six thousand; he fills all the gods with fervor.

3. The teacher, taking [him] in charge (upa-nī), makes the Vedic student an embryo within; he bears him in his belly three nights; the gods gather unto him to see him when born.

4. This piece of fuel [is] earth, sky the second; also the atmosphere he fills with fuel; the Vedic student fills the worlds with fuel, girdle, toil, fervor.