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735 39. He verily was born of the sacrifice; of him the sacrifice was born.

40. He is the sacrifice; his is the sacrifice; he [is] made the head of the sacrifice.

41. He thunders; he lightens; he indeed hurls the stone.

42. Either for the evil [man] or for the excellent; for man or for Asura.

43. Either when thou makest the herbs, or when thou rainest excellently, or when thou hast increased him of the people (? janyá).

44. Such, O bountiful one, is thy greatness; and thine, too (úpa), are a hundred bodies.

45. Thine, too, are two billions, [many] billions (?); or else thou art a hundred million.

46. More is Indra than non-dying (??); more art thou, O Indra, than the deaths.