Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1842. Excerpt: ... who performs thy solemn service. Satisfy him with the treasure of a valiant progeny, and abundance of cows; for thou art magnanimous. To him who produces the new exhilarating song, do thou impart an all-sagacious understanding, of the true ancient stamp, and continually increasing. We praise that Indra, whom our voices and the sacred hymns extol; and, desirous of worshipping his great might, we fall down in adoration before him. [End of the fourth Adhyaya.] FIFTH ADHYAYA. 1. O purifying Soma, the all-pervading, beloved, heaven-descended, milky streams of juice are being produced over the receiving-vessel; and the creative priests purify thee, so that thy large drops fall down through mid-air, O thou who art the portion of the Rishis. The life-preserving streams of the unchangeable purifier proceed in all directions to both the worlds, when the green plant is purified in the holy place, and sit on the receiving-vessel over the spirit-generating womb. O beholder of all things, the mighty beams of thee, the ever-increasing, proceed on all sides to the universal mansion, (the bodies of the gods); whilst thou, O all-pervading Soma, art in thy indestructible juice poured forth pure, and reignest supreme over every land. 2. The purifier, sprung from heaven, all-wondrous like a flash of lightning, appears in a mighty flame called Vaiswanara (the friend of all men). O brilliant purifier, the Rakshasa-dispelling, inebriating essence of thy juice is flowing down purified through the goat's-hair strainer. The happiness-conferring, shining juice of thee, our purifier, displays its splendour; and thou, the seer of all things, spreadest thy light all abroad. 3. As cows cheerfully go (to the cow-house), so do these quick-moving, shining, ever-advancing moon-plants, stript of their black skins, (go ...