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683 natural order, and combined especially with xi. 1 (often a verse from each hymn being quoted in the same rule), in the sava ceremony; very few verses anywhere else. Vāit. quotes only 4 verses.

Translated: Henry, 195, 238; Griffith, ii. 110; Bloomfield, 185, 645.

1. Stand, a man (púmāṅs), upon men; go to the hide; call thither her who is dear to thee; of what age (? yā́vant) ye two first came together in the beginning, let that be your same age in Yama's realm.

2. So much [be] your sight, so many your powers (vīryà), so great your brilliancy (téjas), so many-fold your energies (vā́jina); Agni fastens on (sac) the body when [it is his] fuel (?); then, O paired ones (mithuná), shall ye come into being from what is cooked (pakvá).

3. Together in this world, together on the [road] the gods travel, together also unite ye (du.) in the realms of Yama; purified by purifiers, call ye to yourselves whatever seed (rétas) came into being from you.

4. Enter together, ye sons, into the waters, coming together, ye rich in life, unto this living one (m.); of them (f.) share ye the one which (m.) they call immortal, the rice-dish which your (du.) generatrix cooks.

5. What one your (du.) father cooks, and what one [your] mother, in order to release from evil (riprá) and from pollution of speech—that hundred-streamed, heaven-going rice-dish hath permeated (vi-āp) with greatness both firmaments (nábhas).

6. Both firmaments, and worlds of both kinds, what heaven-going ones are conquered of the sacrificers—which one of them is chiefly (? ágre) full of light, full of honey, in that combine ye (du.) with your sons in old age.