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xii. 2- 40. What evil (riprá), pollution we have committed, and what ill-doing, from that let the waters cleanse me, and from the crushing Agni what.

41. These fore-knowing ones (f.) have turned hither upward from below by roads that the gods go upon; upon the back of the virile (vṛṣabhá) mountain the ancient streams (sarít) go about new.

42. O non-flesh-eating Agni, push out the flesh-eating one; bring the god-sacrificing one.

43. The flesh-eating one entered into this man; he has gone after the flesh-eating one; having made two tigers severally, I take him, who is other than propitious.

44. Concealment of the gods, defense (paridhí) of men (manuṣyà), the householder's fire is set (çritá) between both classes.

45. Lengthen thou out, O Agni, the life-time of the living; let them who are dead go unto the world of the Fathers; do thou, a good householder's fire, burning away the niggard, assign to this man an ever better dawn.

Ppp. reads, for a, jīvānām agneṣ pratar dīrgham āyuṣ, and, in c, d, arātīr uṣām-uṣāṁ çrayaṁ çrayasi dadhat. Kāuç. and Vāit. quote as pratīka only the beginning of c;