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1. WE will, with Indra and all Gods to aid us, bring these existing worlds into subjection. 2. Our sacrifice, our bodies, and our offspr. let Indra form together with…

1. LET songs of ours speed Agni forth like a fleet courser in the race, And we will win each prize through him. 2. Agni the dart whereby we gain…

1. ARAYI, one-eyed limping hag, fly, ever-screeching, to the hill. We frighten thee away with these, the heroes of Sirimbitha. 2. Scared from this place and that is she, destroyer…

1. FOR some is Soma purified, some sit by sacrificial oil: To those for whom the meath flows forth, even to those let him depart. 2. Invincible through Fervour, those…

1. SWAYING about, the Active Ones came nigh to Indra at his birth, And shared his great heroic might. 2. Based upon strength and victory and power, O Indra is…

1. A MIGHTY Governor art thou, Wondrous, Destroyer of the foe, Whose friend is never done to death, and never, never overcome. 2. Lord of the clan, who brings us…

1. By Faith is Agni kindled, through Faith is oblation offered up. We celebrate with praises Faith upon the height of happiness. 2. Bless thou the man who gives, O…

1. THOU, bearer of oblations, though kindled, art kindled for the Gods. With the Adityas, Rudras, Vasus, come to us: to show us favour come to us. 2. Come hither…

1. SAVITAR fixed the earth with bands to bind it, and made heaven stedfast where no prop supported. Savitar milked, as 'twere a restless courser, air, sea bound fast to…