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673 2. By evil-plotter and ill-plotter, by actor and helper, both all yákṣma and death do we thereby drive out from here.

3. Out from here do we drive death, perdition, out the niggard; whoso hates us, him, O non-flesh-eating Agni, do thou eat; whomso we hate, him do we impel to thee.

4. If the flesh-eating Agni, or if the tiger-like, hath entered this stall (goṣṭhá), being not at home (?), him, having made him to have beans for sacrificial butter, I send far forth; let him go unto the Agnis that have seat in the waters.

5. If angry men put thee forth (pra-kṛ), with fury, a man having died, that, O Agni, is easy to be arranged by thee; we make thee flame up again.

6. The Ādityas, the Rudras, the Vasus [have set] thee again; again, O Agni, the priest (brahmán), conductor of good; Brahmaṇaspati hath set thee again, in order to length of life-time to a hundred autumns.