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1. Do you make the offering, the Priest of the pilgrim-rite has come and he conquers again, for he knows the commandment of the Fire.
2. Let him sit within close to the keen burning ray the Priest of the call in thinking man accepting the comradeship of the Fire.
3. Within they wish him to be in a man the “terrible oneˮ, beyond the thinking mind; by his tongue they seize the peace.
4. High burnt the companion bow, a founder of the growth he climbed to woodland, he smote the rock with his tongue.
5. He is the shining calf who wanders and finds none to bind him here, to one who lauds him he manifests the mother.¹
6. And now is the great and vast yoking as if of the Horse, the rope of the chariot is seen.
¹Or, for one who lauds him he goes to the mother.
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7. Seven milk the one, two let loose the five at the ford of the River upon the cry of the waters.
8. By the ten of the sun Indra made fall the covering sheath of heaven with his triple mallet.
9. A new adoration moves round the triple pilgrim-sacrifice, the priests of the call anoint With the honey-wine.
10. With surrender they pour out the inexhaustible pervading well whose wheel is on high and its opening below.
11. Close by are the stones and the honey-wine is poured in the lotus in the discharging of the well.
12. O Ray-Cows, come to the well; here is the great wine-jar of the sacrifice, here are both the golden handles.
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13. Pour into the wine that is pressed, a joining splendour, the glory of earth and heaven; by the juice of the wine sustain the Bull.
14. They know their own home; like calves with their mothers they met with each other as companions.
15. In the jaws of the eater they made their foundation in heaven, their prostrations of surrender to Indra and the Fire made the Sun-world.
16. The warrior milked out the seven-planed nourishing force and energy by the seven rays of the sun.
17. O Mitra and Varuna, in the rising of the moon he received it on the sun; it is the healing draught for him who suffers.
18. And now let him stretch out ¹ with his tongue of flame around heaven that plane of him in his full delight which is to be laid as a foundation.
¹Or, form
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