१८

1. ¹ ‘May Indra and Agni make you go. May the two Aśvins protect you. Bṛhaspati is your herdsman. May Pūṣan drive you back again’ - this (verse) he recites over the cows when they go away (to their pasture-grounds), and (the verse), ‘May Pūṣan go after our cows’ (Taitt. Saṃh. IV, 1, 11, 2).

इन्द्रा ग्नी वः प्रस्थापयतामश्विनावभिरक्षताम् । बृहस्पतिर्वो गोपालः पूषा वः पुनरुदाजतु । इति गाः प्रतिष्ठमाना अनुमन्त्रयते । पूषा गा अन्वेतु नः । इति च १

2. With (the verse), ‘These cows that have come hither, free from disease and prolific, may they swim (full of wealth) like rivers; may they pour out (wealth), as (rivers discharge their floods) into the ocean’ - he looks at the cows, when they are coming back.

इमा या गाव आगमन्नयक्ष्मा बहुसूवरीः । नद्य इव स्रवन्तु समुद्र इव निषिञ्चन्तु । इति गा आयतीः प्रतीक्षते २

3. ² With (the formula), ‘You are a stand at rest; may I (?) become your stand at rest. You are immovable. Do not move from me. May I not move from you, the blessed ones’ - (he looks at them) when they are standing still.

संस्था स्थ संस्था वो भूयास्थाच्युता स्थ मा मा च्योढ्वं माहं भवतीभ्यश्चौषीः । इति संस्थिताः ३

4. With (the formula), ‘I see you full of sap. Full of sap you shall see me’ - (he looks at them) when they are gone into the stable, and with (the formula), ‘May I be prosperous through your thousandfold prospering.’

ऊर्जा वः पश्याम्यूर्जा मा पश्यत । इति गोष्ठगताः । सहस्रपोषं वः पुष्यासम् । इति च ४

5. ³ Then having put wood on the fire amid the cows, and having performed the rites down to the Vyāhṛti (oblations), he makes oblations of milk with (the verses),

‘Blaze brightly, O Jātavedas, driving destruction away from me. Bring me cattle and maintenance from all quarters of the heaven. Svāhā!

‘May Jātavedas do no harm to us, to cows and horses, to men and to all that moves. Come hither, Agni, fearlessly; make me attain to welfare! Svāhā!’ -

And with (the two verses), ‘This is the influx of the waters,’ and ‘Adoration to thee, the rapid one, the shining one’ (Taitt. Saṃh. IV, 6, 1, 3).

अतो गवां मध्येग्निमुपसमाधाय व्याहृतिपर्यन्तं कृत्वा पयसा जुहोति । उद्दीप्यस्व जातवेदोपघ्नन्निरृतिं मम । पशूंश्च मह्यमावह जीवनं च दिशो दिश । स्वाहा । मा नो हिंसीज्जातवेदो गामश्वं पुरुषं जगत् । अबिभ्रदग्न आगहि श्रिया मा परिपातय । स्वाहा । अपामिदं न्ययनम् । नमस्ते हरसे शोचिषे । इति च ५

6. Then follow oblations with the verses), ‘This, O Varuṇa’ (&c. see I, 2, 8, 16, down to the end of the Sūtra).

End of the Fifth Paṭala.

इमं मे वरुण । तत्त्वा यामि । त्वं नो अग्ने । स त्वं नो अग्ने । त्वमग्ने अयासि । प्रजापते । यदस्य कर्मणोत्यरीरिचम् । इति च । अत्रैके जयाभ्यातानान्राष्ट्रभृत इत्युपजुह्वति यथा पुरस्तात् ६