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VEDIC HYMNS.
MANDALA I, HYMN 72. ASHTAKA I, ADHYÅYA 5, VARGA 17–18.
1. He has brought down (i.e. surpassed) the wisdom of many a worshipper', he who holds in his hand all manly power. Agni has become the lord of treasures, he who brought together all (powers of) immortality.
21. All the clever immortals when seeking did not find the calf though sojourning round about us. The attentive (gods), wearying themselves, following his footsteps, stood at the highest, beautiful standing-place of Agni.
3. When the bright ones' had done service to thee, the bright one, Agni, with Ghrita through three autumns, they assumed worshipful names ; the well-born shaped their own bodies.
4. Acquiring (or, exploring ?) for themselves the two great worlds, the worshipful ones brought forward their Rudra-like powers!. The mortal, when (beings) were in discorda, perceived and found out Agni standing in the highest place.
5. Being like-minded they reverentially approached him on their knees. Together with their wives they venerated the venerable one. Abandoning their bodies they made them their own, the (one) friend waking when the (other) friend closed his eyes
6. When the worshipful (gods) have discovered the thrice seven secret steps? (or, places) laid down in thee, they concordantly guard with them immor
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