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27. The gods, the Fathers, human beings, and they that are Gandharvas-and-Apsarases: from the remnant etc. etc.

1. When fury (manyú) brought his wife away from the house of contrivance (saṁkalpá), who were the groomsmen (jánya)? who the wooers (vará)? who also was chief wooer?

2. Penance and also action were within the great sea (arṇavá); those were the groomsmen, those the wooers; the bráhman was chief wooer.

3. Ten gods were born together from gods of old; whoever may know them plainly, he verily may talk big to-day.

4. Breath-and-expiration, sight, hearing, indestructibleness and destruction, out-breathing and up-breathing, speech, mind—they verily brought design (ā́kūti).

5. Unborn were the seasons, likewise Dhātar, Brihaspati, Indra-andAgni, the two Açvins, at that time: whom did they worship (upa-ās) [as] chief?

6. Both penance, namely, and action were within the great sea; penance was born from action; that did they worship as chief.