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2 When, seeking your enjoyment onward from afar, ye, certain of my kinsmen, wandered on your way, 3 Savitar therefore gave you immortality, because ye came proclaiming him whom naught can hide; 4 When they had served with zeal at sacrifice as priests, they, mortal as they were, gained immortality. 5 The Rbhus, with a rod measured, as 'twere a field, the single sacrificial chalice. wide of mouth, 6 As oil in ladles, we through knowledge will present unto the Heroes of the firmament our hymn,− 7 Rbhu to us is Indra freshest in his might, Rbhu with powers and wealth is giver of rich gifts. 8 Out of a skin, O Rbhus, once ye formed a cow, and brought the mother close unto her calf again. 9 Help us with strength where spoil is won, O Indra: joined with the gbhus give us varied bounty.

2 In thee, effused, O Soma, we rejoice ourselves for great supremacy in fight. 3 O Pavamana, thou didst generate the Sun, and spread the moisture out with power, 4 Thou didst produce him, Deathless God mid mortal men for maintenance of Law and lovely Amrta: 5 All round about hast thou with glory pierced for us as 'twere a never−failing well for men to drink, 6 Then, beautifully radiant, certain Heavenly Ones, have sung to him their kinship as they looked thereon, 7 Soma, the men of old whose grass was trimmed addressed the hymn to thee for mighty strength and for 8 They have drained forth from out the great depth of the sky the old primeval milk of heaven that claims 9 As long as thou, O Pavamana, art above this earth and heaven and all existence in thy might, 10 In the sheep's wool hath Soma Pavamana flowed, while they cleanse him, like a playful infant, 11 Holy and sweet, while purified, this Indu flows on, a wave of pleasant taste, to Indra,− 12 So flow thou on, subduing our assailants, chasing the demons hard to beencountered,

2 Tanunapat, fair−tongued, with sweet meath balming the paths and waysof Order, make them pleasant. 3 Invoked, deserving prayer and adoration, O Agni, come accordant with the Vasus. 4 By rule the Sacred Grass is scattered eastward, a robe to clothe this earth when dawns are breaking. 5 Let the expansive Doors be widely opened, like wives who deck their beauty for their husbands. 6 Pouring sweet dews let holy Night and Morning, each close to each, he seated at their station, 7 Come the two first celestial sweet−voiced Hotars, arranging sacrifice for man to worship 8 Let Bharati come quickly to our worship, and Ila showing like a human being. 9 Hotar more skilled in sacrifice, bring hither with speed to−day God Tvastar, thou who knowest. 10 Send to our offerings which thyself thou balmest the Companies of Gods in ordered season. 11 Agni, as soon as he was born, made ready the sacrifice, and was the Gods' preceder.