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29. They struggle up (ud-yudh), they dance on, being heated; they hurl foam and abundant drops (bindú); like a woman that is in her season, seeing her husband, unite yourselves, O waters, with these rice-grains.

30. Make thou them stand up, as they sit on the bottom; let them touch themselves all over with the waters; I have measured with vessels (pā́tra) the water that is here; measured are the rice-grains that are these directions.

31. Reach thou forth the sickle (párçu), hasten, take [it] quickly; let them, not harming, cut (dā) the herbs at the joint; they of whom Soma compassed the kingship—let the plants be without wrath toward us.

32. Strew ye a new barhís for the rice-dish; be it dear to the heart, agreeable to the eye; on it let the gods [and] the divine ones (f.) settle (viç) together; sitting down (ni-sad), let them partake of this with the seasons.

33. O forest tree, sit on the strewn barhís, being commensurate with the Agni-praises (agniṣṭomá), with the deities; like a form well made by an artisan (tváṣṭṛ) with a knife, so (enā́) let the eager ones be seen round about in the vessel (pā́tra).