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xix. 64- i. 7. 2; MB. i. 6. 32), with a very different latter half, but all reading agnaye; ⌊and we find agnáye at MP. ii. 6. 2; and again at GGS. ii. 10. 46, where the pratīka is cited⌋. The comm. also has agnaye, with one of SPP's reciters. The Atharvan reading is plainly ágne, apparently a metrical emendation, and the translation follows it, rather than our unnecessary conjecture, ágre. ⌊In this case, as the meter clearly shows, we must allow that the AV. has the better reading ágne as against the agnaye of a whole series of Sūtra-texts. Their inferior reading is of course not to be changed; but still less should the AV. be changed to agnáye, as Oldenberg, note to ÇGS., p. 139, overlooking the meter, suggests.⌋

2. With firing, O Jātavedas, with fuel do we increase thee; so do thou increase us, both with progeny and with riches.

3. In that, O Agni, we put on for thee any pieces of wood whatever, be all that propitious to me; enjoy thou that, O youngest one.

4. These pieces of fuel are for thee, O Agni; with them, O burning one, become thou united; put in us [long] life-time; put immortality in the Āryan.