2 The seasons, the angels, form and order worship, butter, cake, ladles, sacrificial weapons. Tread you God-travelled paths whereby the righteous, payers of sacrifices, go to the Garden.

3 Carefully look on sacrifice's pathway whereon the righteous sages travel. By those same pathways go up to the Garden, where the sons of the Boundless take their fill of sweetness. There make your home in the third vault of heaven.

4 Three sages in the region's roar are standing high on heaven's ridge in their appointed station. The worlds of the Garden, filled full of life, shall yield food and power to him who sacrifices.

7 They ford the mighty rivers by the pathway which they who sacrifice, the righteous, travel. There they gave room unto the sacrificer when they made regions and existing creatures.

11 Happily from the rear, happily from before, above, and under, place him, O Lord, happily in the world that holds the righteous.

13 Sacrifice, duly offered, comes preparing the sacrificer for the world of the Garden.

14 Fain to fly up from the sky's ridge to heaven, the worshipper has mounted by the visible light. Lucid from out the mist to him, the pious, gleams the God-travelled path that leads to the Garden.

15 This ordered sacrifice goes offered thither whither presented gifts have gone aforetime.

16 Enriched with cake and milk here let the offering rest. World-makers, makers of the path, we remember you; our worship is to God alone.

17 Enriched with cake and curds, and so on, as in stanza 16.

18 Enriched with cake and drops, and so on.

19 Enriched with cake and butter, and so on.

20 Enriched with cake and meat, and so on.

21 Enriched with cake and food, and so on.

22 Enriched with cake and mead, and so on.

23 Enriched with cake and juice, and so on.

24 Here, mixed with cake and water, let the offering rest. World-makers, makers of the path, we remember you; our worship is to God alone.

25 Let these which the givers have held for you, these beakers covered over with cake, be full of sacred food for you, distilling fatness, rich in mead.

26 Grains which for you I scatter, mixed with sesame, as holy food: may they be excellent and potent; may God look on them with favour!

27 More life everlasting!

28 On all the earth, to heaven, the drop descended, on this place and on that which was before it. I offer up, throughout the seven offerings, the drop which still to one same place is moving.

29 Those who observe men look on wealth as the wind with countless streams, and as the light-finding ray. Those drain out the gift sprung from seven mothers, who satisfy and evermore give presents.

30 They for their weal drain out the cask, the beaker four-holed, the milch-cow of abundance full of sweetness. Injure not, O Lord, in the loftiest heaven the Boundless, heightening strength among the people.

31 On you God the Life-giver bestows this vesture for your wear. Clothe yourself herein, and find meet robe in the realm of judgement to cover you.

32 The grains of corn have now become a cow, the sesame her calf. He in the realm of the hereafter lives on her, the inexhaustible.

33 Let these become your milch-kine, man! supplying all your heart's desires. There, speckled, white, like-hued and various-coloured, with calves of sesame let them stand beside you.

34 Let the green grains become your white and speckled, the dusky corns become your ruddy milch-kine. Let those with calves of sesame for ever yield strength to him and never flinch from milking.

35 I offer in God's name this gift, a thousandfold spring that pours a hundred streamlets. This with a swelling flow supports the father, supports grandfathers and their sires before them.

36 Beside the spring with hundred, thousand currents, expanding on the summit of the water, exhaustless, yielding strength, never reluctant, the righteous with their sacred food are seated.

37 To life everlasting this mortal goes: prepare a home for him, all you his kindred.

39 Giving the son and grandson satisfaction, let these present waters full of sweetness, pouring forth food and life for the righteous forefathers, refresh both these and those, the blessed waters.

42 The mingled draught, the mess of rice, the meat which I present for the poor: may these be full of food, distilling fatness, rich in sweets.

43 Grains which for you I scatter, mixed with sesame, as sacred food: may these be excellent and potent; may God look on them with favour.

44 This is the ancient, this the recent pathway, by which your sires of olden time departed. They who first travelled it, and they who followed, convey you to the world where dwell the righteous.

45 The pious call upon God, the Giver of knowledge; they worship Him while sacrifice proceeds. The righteous doers of good deeds invoke Him: may God send bliss to him who gives!

46 Approaching on the south our solemn worship, the righteous call upon God to hear them. Sit on this holy grass and be joyful: give us strengthening food that brings no sickness.

47 O God, Giver of knowledge, who came with them, joying in hymns and food, with the righteous, here give the sacrificer growth of riches, a portion, worth a thousand, of refreshment.

48 As the air rests on earth, so do I seat you. May God the Sustainer lengthen our existence. For you may he who parts in turn find treasures, but let the dead remain among the righteous.

50 From a good quarter have we gained this gift, the gift of this man, strength-giving, plenteous milker. Bringing in youth old age unto the living, may she bear these together to the righteous.

52 May God gather your body, limb by limb together.

53 The royal Parna is the caldron's cover: strength have we gained, force, power, and might, and vigour, bestowing length of life upon the living, for long existence through a hundred autumns.

54 Praise God with your offerings, Visvamitras; may He lengthen our existence.

55 As the five races of mankind set apart a house for the departed, even so I set a house apart that greater numbers may be mine.

56 Take and wear this piece of gold, the gold your father used to wear. Wipe tenderly the right hand of your sire who goes away to heaven.

57 To all, the living and the dead, all that are born, the worshipful, let the full brook of fatness run, overflowing, with a stream of mead.

58 Far-seeing it flows on, the abundant gift of God, the Lord of hymns, promoter of the days, of the dawns, of heaven. Breath of the rivers, it has roared into the jars, and through His wisdom entered into the heart of the Mighty.

59 Let your bright smoke envelop you, spread forth, O bright one, in the sky; for, purifier, like the sun you shine with your radiant glow.

60 The pure provision is moving forth to the destined place of the Mighty, and slights not as a friend the promise of his friend. You come nigh as a bridegroom meets the bride, reaching the beaker by a course of a hundred paths.

61 Well have they eaten and rejoiced; their dear ones have they left behind; sages, self-luminous, have praised; we who are youngest supplicate.

66 Here you have left your heart, O man, as sisters leave their little pet. Do you, O earth, envelop him.

67 Bright be to you those worlds where dwell the righteous! May God seat you in that sphere which they inhabit.