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VEDIC HYMNS.
Here the former young (women) having the same origin, the seven sounds ? have conceived one germ.
7. His compact masses assuming every shape are spread in the womb of ghee, in the streaming of honey. There the swelling milch-cows have stationed themselves. Great are the parents of the wonderfully mighty (Agni) who are turned towards each other
8. Having been carried in the waters) thou hast shone forth, O son of strength, assuming wonderful shapes brilliant and fierce. The streams of honey and ghee drip, where the male has grown by wisdom.
9. By (his) nature he has found his father's udder?; he has sent forth his streams and his showers. Walking & hidden to his dear friends he has not been hidden to the young (daughters) of Heaven4.
10. He bore (in his womb) the germ of the sire, of the father who begat him? He, being one, sucked many (nurses) rich in milk? Observe for this manly, bright one the two wives bound in kinship, belonging to men !.
11. The great one has grown up in the wide unbounded space? The Waters (have made) Agni (grow): for many glorious ones ? (have come) together. He lay in the womb of Rita, the domestic (god) Agni, in the work of the uterine sisters.
12. Like a horse that carries (the prize), in the assembly of the great (waters)', visible to his son?, he whose ... is light 3: he who as father begat the ruddy cows 4, he the son of the waters is the most manly, restless Agni.
13. To him, the glorious son of the waters and of the plants, the blessed wood has given birth, in his many shapes. Even the gods, for they agreed in
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| SR No. | 007680 |
| Book Title | Satapatha Bramhana Part 05 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Julius Eggeling |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1900 |
| Total Pages | 2017 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 44 MB |