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MANDALA I, HYMN 75.
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MANDALA I, HYMN 75. ASHTAKA I, ADHYAYA 5, VARGA 23. 1. Accept gladly our most widely-sounding? speech, the most agreeable to the gods, thou who, in thy mouth, offerest the sacrificial food (to the gods).
2. And may we then pronounce to thee, O highest Angiras, Agni, best worshipper, a prayer agreeable to thee and successful.
3. Who is thy kinsman among men, O Agni? Who performs worship to thee 1 ? Who art thou, and where dost thou rest?
4. Thou, O Agni, art the kinsman, the dear friend ("Mitra ') of men, a friend who is to be magnified by his friends.
5. Sacrifice for us to Mitra and Varuna. Sacrifice to the gods, (a sacrifice conforming to) the great Rita'. Sacrifice, O Agni, to thy own house.
NOTES. The same Rishi and metre.--Verse I = TB. III, 6, 7, 1; MS. III, 10, 1 (IV, 13,5). Verses 3-5 = SV. II, 885–887. Verse 5 = VS. XXXIII, 3; TB. II, 7, 12, 1.
Verse 1. Note 1. Comp. VI, 68, 9. mánma ... saprathah.
Verse 3. Note 1. May we not take dasú-adhvara as a compound with governed final member, like vidádvasu, sådádyoni &c. ?
Verse 6. Note 1. Comp. Gaedicke, Der Accusativ im Veda, 159.
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