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xii. 3- 39. What in any case thy wife cooks beyond thee, or thy husband, O wife, in secret from thee, that do ye unite; that be yours together; agreeing (? sampāday-) together upon one world.

40. How many of her fasten on (sac) the earth, what sons came forth into being from us (pl.)—all those do ye (du.) call to you in the vessel;. knowing the navel, the young ones (çíçu) shall come together.

41. What streams (dhā́rā) of good (vásu) [there are], fattened with honey, mixed with ghee, navels of immortality—all those doth the heaven-goer (? svargá) take possession of; in sixty autumns may he seek unto the treasure-keepers.

42. He shall seek unto it, [as] treasure-keepers unto a treasure; let those who are others be not lords (ánīçvara) about; given by us, deposited, heaven-going, with three divisions it has ascended to three heavens (svargá).

43. Let Agni burn the demon that is godless; let the flesh-eating piçācá not have a draught here; we thrust him, we bar him away from us; let the Ādityas, the An̄girases, fasten on him.

44. To the Ādityas, the An̄girases, I announce this honey mingled with ghee; with cleansed hands, not smiting down [anything of] the Brahman's, go ye (du.), O well-doers, unto this heavenly world (svargá).