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56. What villages, what forest, what assemblies, [are] upon the earth (bhū́mi), what hosts, gatherings—in them may we speak what is pleasant (cā́ru) to thee.

57. As a horse the dust, she has shaken apart those people who dwelt upon the earth since (yā́t) she was born—pleasing, going at the head, keeper of creation (bhúvana), container of forest trees, of herbs.

58. What I speak, rich in honey I speak it; what I view, that they win (? van) me; brilliant am I, possessed of swiftness; I smite down others that are violent (? dódhat).

59. Tranquil, fragrant, pleasant, with sweet drink in her udder, rich in milk, let earth (bhū́mi) bless me, earth together with milk.

60. Whom Viçvakarman sought after with oblation within the ocean, when she was entered into the mist (? rájas); an enjoyable vessel that was deposited in secret became manifest in enjoyment (bhóga) for them that have mothers.

61. Thou art the scatterer (? āvápana) of people, [art] a wish-fulfilling (kāmadúgha) Aditi, spreading out; what of thee is deficient, may Prajāpati, first-born of righteousness, fill that up for thee.

The word āvápana seems to mean sometimes, and perhaps here, a (wide, shallow?) receptacle onto which things are strewn or scattered. Ppp. has at the beginning vim for tvam, and in b viçvarūpā for paprathānā; for c, d it reads yat tāu ”naṁ tat tāpūrayāti prajāpatiḥ prajābhis saṁvidānām; and it ends the hymn here. The Anukr. refuses to admit two familiar resolutions in a, and gratuitously calls the pāda a bārhata