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Mandala X

HYMN XIX. Waters or Cows.

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TURN, don't go further on your path; come to us, Wealthy Ones. Agni and Soma, bring riches back, secure us wealth.

2

Make them return to us, bring them back beside us once more. May Indra give them back to us, and Agni drive them hitherward.

3

Let them return to us; under this herdsman, let them feed. Do you, Agni, keep them here, and let the wealth we have remain.

4

I call upon their herdsman, who knows well their coming near, Their departure and their homecoming, and watches their approach and rest.

5

Yes, let the herdsman, too, return, who marks well their driving forth; Marks their wandering away, their turning back and coming home.

6

Home-leader, lead them home to us; Indra, restore to us our cattle: We will rejoice in them alive.

7

I offer you on every side butter and milk and nourishing food. May all the Holy Deities pour down on us a flood of wealth.

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O you Home-leader, lead them home, restore them you who bring home. Four are the quarters of the earth; from these bring back to us our cattle.

Source: Sacred Texts Archive
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