b. By the Rc make the Soma to prosper, By the Gayatra the Rathantara, The Brhat with the Gayatri for its metre.
c. The drop that falleth of them, that shoot, Shaken by the arms, from the womb of the pressing-planks, Or from the filter of the Adhvaryu, Over it I say Hail! and offer it to Indra.
d. The drop, the shoot, that hath fallen on the ground, From the rice grains [1], the cake, the mush, From the Soma with grain, from the mixed, O Indra, from the pure, Over it I say Hail! and offer it to Indra.
e. Thy sweet drop, powerful, Over which Hail! is said and which goeth back to the gods From the sky, the earth, the atmosphere Over it I say Hail! and offer it to Indra.
f. The Adhvaryu is the first of the priests to start work, verily they say the Stoma should be started by him.
g. 'May speech that goes in front go in front, going straight to the gods, placing glory in me, breath in cattle, offspring in me [2] and in the sacrificer', he says; verily he yokes speech at the beginning of the sacrifice. The place of the sacrifice is made when having drawn off the libations they creep to the Bahispavamana; for they go away, and they praise with verses which go away; he returns, and with a verse addressed to Visnu reverences (the Soma); Visnu is the sacrifice; verily he makes the sacrifice. 'O Visnu, as our nearest, O mighty one, grant us protection; the streams dripping honey milk for thee the unfailing source', he says; verily he makes to swell by it whatever of the Soma has dried up through lying (in the barrels).