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VEDIC HYMNS.
MANDALA V, HYMN 2.
ASHTAKA III, ADHYÅYA 8, VARGA 14–15.
1: The young mother carries in secret the boy confined 1; she does not yield him to the father. People do not see before them his fading 2 face laid down with the Arâtis.
2. Who is that boy, O young woman, whom thou, the Peshi!, carriest? It is the queen who has borne him. Through many autumns the fruit of the womb has increased. I saw him born when his mother gave birth to him.
3. I saw him the gold-toothed, brilliant-coloured preparing his weapons far from his dwelling-place 1. After I have offered to him the ambrosia cleared (from all impure mixture) what may the Indraless, the hymnless do to me?
4. I saw him, the highly shining (Agni), walking far from his dwelling-place, like a bull) together with the herd'. Those (women) have not held him, for he has been born. The young women become grey?.
5. Who have separated my young bull from the cows that had no cow-herd, not even a stranger ? May those who have held him, let him loose. May he, the knowing one, lead the cattle towards us.
6. Him, the king of dwellings (?)', the dwellingplace of people, the Arâtis have laid down ? among men. May the spells of Atri loose him. May the reproachers become reproachable (themselves).
7. Thou hast loosed the bound Sunahsepa from
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