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691 45. I have obtained this highest division of it, from which world the most exalted one obtained [it] completely; pour thou on the butter (sarpís); anoint with ghee; this is the portion of our An̄giras here.

46. Unto truth, unto penance, and unto the deities, we deliver this deposit (nidhí), [this] treasure (çevadhí); let it not be lost (ava-gā) in our play, nor in the meeting; do not ye release it to another in preference to (purā́) me.

47. I cook; I give; verily upon my action [and] deed (? karúṇa) the wife; a virgin (? kāúmāra) world hath been born, a son; take ye (du.) hold after vigor (váyas) that hath what is superior.

48. No offense is here, nor support (? ādhārá), nor that one goes agreeing (sam-am) with friends; this vessel of ours is set down not empty; the cooked [dish] shall enter again him that cooked it.

49. May we do what is dear to them that are dear; whosoever hate [us], let them go to darkness; milch-cow, draft-ox, each coming vigor (váyas)—let them thrust away the death that comes from men.

50. The fires ire in concord, one with another—he that fastens on the herbs, and he that [fastens on] the rivers; as many gods as send heat (ā-tap) in the sky—gold hath become the light of him that cooks.