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70. Give back, O forest tree, him who is deposited here with thee, that in Yama's seat he may sit speaking counsels.

71. Take hold, O Jātavedas; let thy seizure (háras) be with sharpness (téjas-); his body do thou consume; then set him in the world of the well-doing.

72. What Fathers of thine went away earlier and what later, for them let there go a brook of ghee, hundred-streamed, overflowing.

73. Ascend thou this, gaining (ud-mṛj) vigor (váyas); thine own [people] shine here greatly; go forth, unto [them],—be not left behind midway—unto the world of the Fathers that is first there.