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Ga: ya Batt Waa CHa AATATS: | 
aeigar aan Teale Met t Aatefas carar y ¢ 
FAG MAAC TH Ta gat wast a feat: | 
Bu aeite qarwarat ui Saat efaa: qara |) © 
Tas Batis Faqaadt efaat ea uta | 
wa wlat gad ateiaiaas TaATAT gat: |< 
aa TAHT BAIA Has Bret efaw: sq yar: | 
aad @atSaTAR ate ani ofessaeE: | « 
Varuna :—Then there was that great and thick covering 
by which you had covered yourself and entered into the waters, 
O Agni. ae, one god, O all-knower, saw all your different 
forms— 1-1. 
Agni o Who saw me? Who among the gods saw my 
different Pied Tell me, O Mitra and Varuna, where do all 
those shining bodies of Agni reside by which he goes to the 
ods? 2. 
Varun eek desire to have you, O all- -knowing Agni. O 
gni :-—I came here, O Varuna, from fear of the office of 
Hota, that the gods might not appoint me thus. 
Thus s my forms have entered into ise, in various ways 
and I Agni refuse to do this work. 4. 
runa :—Come, pious man is ready to perform sacrifices. 
You, O Agni, are dwelling in darkness. 
Make the paths of the gods easy to go. Carry the liba- 
tions gracious 
Agn i: —This work the elder brother of Agni selected, as 
the obasiokont does the path. Therefore, O Va aruna, from fea ar, 
I came to this diese place as the stag flies from the bow- 
string of the archer. 
The gods :—We a your life parasite so that in doing 
this eke O eng ti you will not get hur 
en, 0 noble-born, being gracious ete to the gods 
their share of the ablations. 7 
gm :—Then give me the whole of the first libations and 
the last, and the portion of the offerings that give strength. 
ibe essence of herbs. And may, 
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