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1. Make thou me dear to the gods, make me dear to kings, dear to everything that sees, both to Çūdra and to Āryan.

1. Arise, O Brahmaṇaspati; awaken the gods with the sacrifice; increase [his] life-time, breath, progeny, cattle, fame, and the sacrificer [himself].

1. O Agni, I have taken fuel for the great Jātavedas; let that Jātavedas extend to me both faith and wisdom.

The whole verse is found in ÇGS. ii. 10, the only variant being agnaye at the beginning; ⌊Oldenberg's text (cf. his note, p. 139) should read āhārṣam, with his codex F.⌋; the first half-verse occurs in several other Sūtras (AGS. i. 21. 1; PCS. ii. 4. 3; HGS.