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663 10. Whom the Açvins measured; on whom Vishṇu strode out; whom Indra, lord of might (çacī-), made free from enemies for himself—let that earth (bhū́mi) to us, a mother to a son, release (vi-sṛj) milk ⌊to me⌋.

11. Let thy hills (girí) [and] snowy mountains (párvata), let thy forest-land (áraṇya), O earth, be pleasant (syoná); upon the brown, black, red, all-formed, fixed (dhruvá) earth (bhū́mi), the earth guarded by Indra—I, unharassed, unsmitten, unwounded, have stood upon the earth.

12. What is thy middle, O earth, and what thy navel, what refreshments (ū́rj) arose (sam-bhū) out of thy body—in them do thou set us; be purifying (pū) toward us; earth (bhū́mi) is mother, I am earth's son; Parjanya is father—let him save (fill? pṛ) us.

13. On what earth (bhū́mi) they enclose the sacrificial hearth; on what [earth] men of all works extend the sacrifice; on what earth are set up (mi) the sacrificial posts, erect, bright, before the oblation—let that earth (bhū́mi), increasing, make us increase.

14. Whoso shall hate us, O earth; whoso shall fight [us]; whoso shall vex [us] with mind, who with deadly weapon—him, O prior-acting earth (bhū́mi), do thou put in our power.

15. Born from thee, mortals go about upon thee; thou bearest bipeds, thou quadrupeds; thine, O earth, are these five [races] of men, for whom, mortals, the rising sun extends with his rays immortal light.