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Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
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Chapter 22
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The god whom both the Heaven and Earth have brought forth for the acquisition of wealth, whom celestial goddess has appointed for our wealth, his yoked horses wait on Vayu, the splendid lord of riches.

When the mighty waters containing the universal germ came into being, generating the Sun, there was one Spirit present in all the forces of nature. What god shall we adore with our oblations?

God with his might then surveyed the floods containing productive force and generative germ. He among the gods is one supreme God and none beside him. What god shall we adore with our oblation!

O Vayu, riding which teams of horses you seek him who offers sacrifice within his house, riding that come to our sacrifice to grant us pleasurable wealth, heroic son, and gifts of kine and horses.

Riding your harnessed teams in hundreds, in thousands come to our sacrifice and solemn rite, O Vayu, to gladden yourself with our oblation. O gods preserve us evermore with propitious blessings!

Come here car-borne, O Vayu, come to us for receiving sweet Soma juice offered in the sacrifice, visit you the house where Soma has been pressed out.

Come you, O Vayu, riding your thousand cars, come to us chariot-borne, to enjoy the Soma-draught.

Come you by one or two, three or ten, twenty or thirty chariots to our sacrifice. Come unto us and unyoke your team of horses here.

O Vavy, lord of truth, Tvashtar’s son-in-law, your means of protection we elect, O god wonderous!

Like unmilked kine, we sing your praise aloud, O Hero, the lord of animate and inanimate beings, and so beautiful to look on.

O Maghavan, none other like you in heaven or on earth has been, nor shall ever be. Desiring horses, kine and power we call you offering libations, O Indra, lord of splendour.

O Indra, we, the poets and sacrificers call you alone. In war men call on you the lord of heroes, in the race of the steeds we call on you.

O wonderous lord Indra, thunder-armed, lauded as mighty, wielder of thunderbolt, grant us kine, chariot horses, ever to be the conqueror.

O ever prosperous and wonderful friend, with that potent protection and with what mighty company will you come unto us?

O Indra, you are the guard of your friends who laud you, come unto us, your devotees with your hundred means of protection.

Sing at every sacrifice the glory of Agni, for obtaining strength. Come, let us praise with our hymns the wise and immortal Agni, him, the well beloved friend.

O Agni, lord of might, giver of the best home, protect us through the first hymn, protect us through the second one, protect us through the third hymn. Guard us through three hymns, protect us through your hymns, O god.

O Adhvaryu, let us adore, Agni, the son of strength, our friend, with gifts of oblations. He is our well-wisher and aids us in battles, he is the saviour of our bodies.

O Agni, you are Samvatsara, you are Parivatsara, you are Idvatsara, Idatasa you are and Vatsara. Dawns may prosper you! May Day and Night prosper you. May Half-months, Months, Seasons and the Years prosper you! You arrange their coming and going hence and send them forth on their ordered courses. You collect all the sources of protection. With that divinity lie steady like Angiras.

 
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