Bharadvāja

May your honor dwell here in happiness.

For this reason I am not pleased to dwell here.

then that great sage began to speak these words.

Let the incantations of Bharadvāja have dominion over you — drift away like a boat cut loose from its mooring!

You who protect Bharadvāja and Vadhryaśva, Viśvāmitra, O Varuṇa and Mitra, and Kutsa;

Bharadvāja knows thee by that name;

with those by which you aided the inspired Bharadvāja — O Aśvins, come with those aids.

When you two came bringing aid to Divodāsa and Bharadvāja, O swift-going Aśvins — your friendly chariot bore much wealth, with a bull and a dolphin yoked to it.

O wide-famed, mighty Agni, grant shelter to Bharadvāja, and desirable wealth.

O Agni, O god, with your great flames and brilliant radiance, kindled for Bharadvāja, O youngest one, O purifier rich in gifts — shine forth.

Flow, roaring one, through the filter to Bharadvāja — the heaven-dwelling, ever-victorious one — with the Soma draught.

> What is given on Vaidhṛti and Vyatīpāta becomes imperishable.

There, Bhāradvāja says:

Baudhāyana and Bhāradvāja state the twelve-day procedure (*dvādaśāhakalpa*).

Bharadvaja, a man of great *tapas*, being hungry with his son in a lonely forest, accepted many cows from Vridhu, a carpenter.