68 The Religion of the Veda

Grant wealth to us when thou art standing upright, And when repressing on this Mother’s 1 bosom}

2. “ Set up in front of the enkindled fire, Accepting tireless prayer, that brings strong some, Driving for from us away all hoismm: Slitknttfifi, Lift thyself up to bring us great good fortune!

4. “ Wellurohed, enveloped, he is come, the youthful ; Sprioging to life his glory waxoth grmtor. Contemplative in mind and gmhmloring,

Sages of wise intellect uproiso him.

9. “Like swans that fly in ordered line Have come the pillars gay in brilliant colors. They, lifted up on high by sages, eastward, Go forth as gods to the gods’ dwellingqxlaoos.

10. “These posts upon the earth, with ornate knobs, Seem to the eye like horns of horned cattle. Upraised by priests with rival invocations, Let them assist us in the rush of bottle 1

xx. “ Lord of the world, rise with a. hundred hmnohesm With thousand hran ches may we rise to greatnessm Thou whom this hatchet with an edge well whettcd For great felicity hath brought before us; I ”

I am reminded here of the tense struggle in which my friend the late Professor Max Mtiller was engaged

with an epithet of Ushas, quite startling, I admit, at first sight. The same beautiful Daughter of Heaven,

1 Mother Earth.