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52. He desires, as it were, to fly forth with his mind; repeatedly he returns again—they whom the flesh-eating Agni, from near by, after-knowing follows.

53. A black ewe [is] of cattle [thy] portion; lead, too, they call thy gold (? candrá), O flesh-eating one; ground beans ⌊are⌋ thy portion [as] oblation; seek (sac) thou the thicket of the forest-spirit (araṇyānī́).

54. Having made offering of withered (? járat) cane (iṣī́kā), of tilpíñja, of dáṇḍana, of reeds; having made fuel of this, Indra removed Yama's fire.

55. Having sent in opposition an opposing (pratyáñc) song (arká), I, foreknowing, have entered abroad on the road; I have directed away the lifebreaths of them yonder; these here I unite with long life-time.

⌊Partly prose—namely parts of vss. 55-60.⌋ Found also ⌊except vs. 28⌋ in Pāipp. xvii. (with slight differences of verse-order, noted under the verses). Nearly all the verses of the hymn are used, according to Kāuç. 60-63, and on the whole in their