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Mandala 7: HYMN LIV. Vastospati.
1.ACKNOWLEDGE us, O Guardian of the Homestead: bring no disease, and give us happy entrance. Whate’er we ask of thee, be pleased to grant it, and prosper thou quadrupeds and bipeds.
2.Protector of the Home, be our promoter: increase our wealth in kine and steeds, O Indu. May we be ever-youthful in thy friendship: be pleased in us as in his sons a father.
3.Through thy dear fellowship that bringeth welfare, may we be victors, Guardian of the Dwelling! Protect our happiness in rest and labour. Preserve us evermore, ye Gods, with blessings.
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The hymn addresses Vastospati, “Guardian of the Homestead,” asking him to ward off disease and grant safe, happy entrance. The speaker repeatedly calls him Protector of the Home and Indu, urging him to increase wealth in kine and steeds and to be “pleased in us as in his sons a father.”
This chapter treats Vastospati as a domestic deity whose fellowship brings welfare and victory—protecting rest, labour, and prosperity. This close, familial language echoes hymns in the Rig Veda that petition household gods for cattle and progeny, similar in tone to the domestic petitions in Mandala 1.
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