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Mandala X

HYMN CI. Viśvedevas.

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Wake with one mind, my friends, and light the fire, you who are many and live together. Agni and Dadhikras and Dawn the Goddess, you, gods with Indra, I call to help us.

2

Sing sweet hymns, weave your songs and praises; build a boat with oars for travel. Prepare the tools, make everything ready, and let the sacrifice, my friends, proceed.

3

Fasten the yokes, secure the traces; the furrow is formed, sow the seed within it. Through song may we carry much abundance; approach the sickle near the ripe grain.

4

Be wise, through desire for bliss from gods, skillfully tie the traces, and place the yokes. Arrange the buckets securely, strap them tight. We will pour forth a well with a plentiful flow, a fair-flowing well that never runs dry.

5

Pour water from the well with pails and good straps, Unfailing, full, with a generous stream.

6

Equip a chariot with happy fortune, pour forth the well with a stone wheel and wooden buckets, The drink of heroes, the trough for armor.

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Prepare the cowshed, for there drink your heroes: sew the coats of armor, wide and many. Make iron fortresses, secure from all attackers, let not your pitcher leak: hold it firmly.

8

Turn to you, holy minds of the gods, who long for sacrifice, and pour milk for us, like a proud cow. Pour golden juice into the wooden vessel, with stone axes fashion it and form it. Embrace and encircle it with a tenfold belt, and attach the chariot horse to both chariot poles.

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Lay in the wood the Soviran of the forest, and sink the well without digging it. Indra is he, oh men, who gives us happiness: play, urge the giver of joy to give us strength. Bring quickly down, oh priests, here to give us aid, to drink the Soma, Indra, Son of Nistigri.

Source: Sacred Texts Archive
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