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Mandala X

HYMN CVI. Aśvins.

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YOU both hold this as your goal: you weave your songs like skilled weavers make garments. So that you may come together, I have awakened you: you spread out food like days of lovely weather.

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LIKE TWO WHEAT CATTLE YOU MOVE ALONG IN TRACES, AND SEEK LIKE EAGER GUESTS YOUR BIDDER'S FEAST. YOU ARE LIKE GLORIOUS AMBASSADORS AMONG THE PEOPLE: LIKE BULLS, APPROACH THE PLACE WHERE YOU ARE WATERED.

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LIKE THE TWO WINGS OF A BIRD, CONNECTED, LIKE TWO CHOICE ANIMALS, YOU HAVE SEEN OUR WORSHIP. AS BRIGHT AS FIRE THE VOTARY HAS KINDLED, YOU OFFER SACRIFICES IN MANY SPOTS AS ROAMERS.

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YOU ARE OUR KINSMEN, LIKE TWO SONS, TWO FATHERS, STRONG IN YOUR GLORY AND LIKE KINGS FOR CONQUEST; LIKE RAYS FOR OUR ENJOYMENT, LORDS TO FEED US, YOU, LIKE QUICK BEARERS, HAVE ANSWERED OUR CALL.

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YOU ARE LIKE TWO MERRILY MOVING WELL-FED HILLS LIKE MITRA AND VARUṾA, THE BESTOWERS OF HAPPINESS, VERACIOUS, POSSESSORS OF INFINITE WEALTH, HAPPY, LIKE TWO HORSES FAT WITH FEED, ABIDING IN THE SKY, LIKE TWO RAMS (ARE YOU) TO BE NOURISHED WITH SACRIFICIAL FOOD, TO BE CHERISHED (WITH OBLATIONS).

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YOU ARE LIKE TWO MAD ELEPHANTS BENDING THEIR FOREQUARTERS AND SMITING THE FOE, LIKE THE TWO SONS OF NITOSA DESTROYING (FOES), AND CHERISHING (FRIENDS); YOU ARE BRIGHT AS TWO WATER-BORN JEWELS, DO YOU, WHO ARE VICTORIOUS, (RENDER) MY DECAYING MORTAL BODY FREE FROM DEATH.

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FIERCE (ASVIN) LIKE TWO POWERFUL (HEROES), YOU ENABLE THIS MOVING, PERISHABLE MORTAL FRAME TO CROSS OVER TO ITS DESTINATION AS OVER WATER; EXTREMELY STRONG, LIKE THE RUBHUS, YOUR CHARIOT, ATTAINED ITS DESTINATION SWIFT AS THE WIND, IT Pervaded (EVERYWHERE), IT DISPENSED

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