a The wooden sword is safety, the hammer is safety, the knife, the sacrificial enclosure, the axe is safety; sacrificial ye are, makers of the sacrifice; do ye invite me to this sacrifice.

b May sky and earth invite me;

The place of singing, the bowl, the provision, the fire invite me;

May the righteous, the sacrifice,

The Hotras call upon me in invitation.

c "Homage to the Radiant One, slayer of Makha; may the glory of Makha impel me," with these words he reverences the Ahavaniya. Makha is the sacrifice; thus paying homage to him he creeps to the Sadas, for his own safety.

d "Homage to God the Healer, slayer of Makha; for this homage guard me," with these words he reverences the place of the Agnidh; thus paying homage he creeps to the Sadas, for his own safety.

e "Homage to the Mighty, slayer of Makha; injure not my power and strength," with these words he reverences the place of the Hotr; thus he invokes this blessing, for the preserving of his power and strength.

f One who creeps forward knowing the powers that cause ruin at the Sadas is not ruined at the Sadas. "Homage to the Radiant One, slayer of Makha," he says. One who, knowing them thus, creeps forward is not ruined at the Sadas.

g Ye two are firm, loose; united guard me from trouble.

h May the sun, the sign of God, guard me from trouble from the sky, the wind from the atmosphere, the fire from earth, Yama from the fathers, Sarasvati from men.

i O ye divine doors, oppress me not.

k Homage to the Sadas, homage to the lord of the Sadas, homage to the eye of the friends who go before, homage to sky, homage to earth.

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m From the low, from the high may I go.

n O sky and earth protect me from this day to today.

o When he creeps forward to the seat, the fathers creep along after him; they have power to injure him; having crept to the seat he should look along the south side, saying, "Come, O ye fathers; through you may I possess the fathers; may ye have good offspring in me"; thus paying reverence to them he creeps to the Sadas, for his own safety.