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ix. 2- 1. The rival-slaying bull Kāma do I desire to aid (? çikṣ) with ghee, with oblation, with sacrificial butter; do thou, praised with great heroism, make my rivals to fall downward.

2. What of my mind or my sight is not agreeable (priyá), what of me gnaws, does not enjoy (abhi-nand), that evil-dreaming do I fasten on my rival; praising Kāma, may I shoot up.

3. Evil-dreaming, O Kāma, and difficulty, O Kāma, want of progeny, homelessness, ruin do thou, formidable, masterful, fasten on him who shall seek to devise (cikits-) distresses for us.

4. Thrust, O Kāma; thrust forth, O Kāma; let them who are my rivals go to ruin; of them, thrust to lowest darknesses, do thou, O Agni, burn out the abodes (vā́stu).

5. That daughter of thine, O Kāma, is called a milch-cow, what utterance (vā́c) the poets name virā́j; with that do thou avoid them that are my rivals; let breath, cattle, life avoid them.

6. With the strength of Kāma, of Indra, of king Varuṇa, of Vishṇu, with the impulse of Savitar ('the impeller'), with the priestship (hotrá) of Agni I thrust forth my rivals, as a skilful pole-man (? çambín) a boat on the waters (udaká).

7. Let Kāma, my valiant (vājín) formidable overseer, make for me freedom from rivals; let the all-gods be my refuge; let all the gods come to this call of mine.