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639 16. The teacher [is] the Vedic student; the Vedic student [is] Prajāpati; Prajāpati bears rule (vi-rāj); the virā́j became the controlling Indra.

17. By Vedic-studentship, by fervor, a king defends his kingdom; a teacher by Vedic-studentship (brahmacárya) seeks a Vedic student.

18. By Vedic-studentship a girl wins (vid) a young husband; by Vedic-studentship a draft-ox, a horse strives to gain (ji) food.

19. By Vedic-studentship, by fervor, the gods smote away death; Indra by Vedic-studentship brought heaven (svàr) for the gods.

20. The herbs, past and future, day and night, the forest tree, the year together with the seasons—they are born of the Vedic student.

21. The earthly, the heavenly cattle, they of the forest, and they that are of the village, the wingless and they that are winged—they are born of the Vedic student.

22. Individually do all that are of Prajāpati bear breaths in their bodies (ātmán); all these the bráhman defends, brought in the Vedic student.

23. That, sent forth (? pariṣūtá) of the gods, not mounted onto, goes about shining; from that [was] born the brā́hmana, the chief bráhman, and all the gods, together with immortality.