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If anything ails him during that second period, he
should recite the following mantra: "O ye pranas, ye
Rudras, unite this midday libation with the third
libation. May I, who am a sacrifice, not disappear in the
midst of the pranas, who are the Rudras." Thus he rises
from his illness and becomes free of it.
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His next forty-eight years constitute the third oblation.
The Jagati metre has forty-eight syllables and the third
oblation is offered with Jagati hymns. The Adityas are
connected with that part of the sacrifice. The pranas are
the Adityas; for, verily, they take up (adadate) everything.
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If anything ails him during that third period, he should
recite the following mantra: "O ye pranas, ye Adityas,
extend this my third libation to the full age. May I, who
am a sacrifice, not disappear in the midst of the pranas,
who are the Adityas." Thus he rises from his illness and
becomes free of it.
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Mahidasa, the son of Itara, knew this and said
addressing a disease: "O you disease! Why do you
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