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5. With (the words), ‘The navel art thou ; do not fear; the knot of the breathing powers art thou ; do not loosen thyself,' (he touches) the navel;
6. With the verse, 'Bliss with our ears' (Rig-veda I, 89, 8), (he touches) the limbs as stated (in that verse);
7. Worshipping the sun with the verse, • Yonder eye' (Rig-veda VII, 66, 16).
KHANDA 9. 1. "May the noisy (goddesses) keep you away from slaughtering hosts. May the entire share, O cows, that belongs to this lord of cows, suffer no harm among you—and)
'May Pashan go after our cows' (Rig-veda VI, 54, 5)this he shall speak over the cows when they go away (to their pasture-grounds).
2. ‘May Pashan hold' (Rig-veda VI, 54, 10), when they run about.
3. "May they whose udder with its four holes is full of sweet and ghee, be milk-givers to us; (may they be) many in our stable, rich in ghee'-and,
The cows have come' (Rig-veda VI, 28), when they have come back.
4. The last (verse) when he puts them in (into the stable).
5. The hymn, 'Refreshing wind' (Rig-veda X, 169), (he recites over the cows), when they are gone into the stable.
KHANDA 10. 1. The new moon that follows after the Phålguna
9, 1. The noisy ones are the winds; comp. the passage of Sânkhayana-Srauta-slltra, quoted p. 144 of the German edition.
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