Pushan is asked to drive up, like a strayed beast, him who holds up heaven and lies on grass of many colours. He has found the king hidden in a cave. May he bring the six that are bound together, as one who ploughs with oxen brings corn.
Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer § 1.23.13-15; Vedic Mythology, A. A. Macdonell (1897) § 16
Sources: Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer; Vedic Mythology, A. A. Macdonell (1897)
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Why the Soma sacrifice opens and closes with a pot of rice for Aditi: the earth, left out of the rite, confounds it until she is given a share.