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34. Having turned away from the householder's fire, go ye forth to the right with the flesh-eating one; do ye what is dear to the Fathers, to self, what is dear to the priests (brahmán).

35. The flesh-eating Agni that is unremoved (á-nir-ā-hita), taking to himself the double-portioned riches of the oldest son, destroys [him] with ruin.

36. What one plows, what one wins (van), and what one gains (vid) by pay (vasná)—all that is not a mortal's, if the flesh-eating one be unremoved.

37. He becomes unfit for sacrifice, of smitten splendor; not by him is the oblation to be eaten; [him] the flesh-eating one cuts off from plowing, kine, riches, whom it pursues.

38. A mortal, going down to mishap, speaks forth repeatedly with greedy ones (? gṛ́dhya); whom (pl.) the flesh-eating Agni, from near by, after-knowing, follows (? vi-tāv).

39. The houses are united with seizure (grā́hi) when a woman's husband dies; a knowing priest (brahmán) is to be sought, who shall remove the flesh-eating one.