Plain text of Book 19, Hymn 22
Blessings on the first five chapters of the songs of the Angirases! 2 On the sixth, blessings! 3 On the seventh and eighth, blessings! 4 On the black-clawed ones, blessings!
5 On the golden-hued ones, blessings! 6 On the small ones, blessings! 7 On those composed in strophes, blessings! 8 On the first shells, blessings! 9 On the second shells, blessings! 10 On the third shells, blessings! 11 On the penultimates, blessings! 12 On the last ones, blessings! 13 On the latter ones, blessings! 14 On the sages, blessings! 15 On those with hair in tufts, blessings! 16 On the groups, blessings! 17 On the great groups, blessings! 18 On all the Angirases of the groups, blessings! 19 On those two with separate thousands, blessings! 20 Praise be to God!
21 Collected manly powers are topped by God. God at first spread out the loftiest heaven. God was before all things existing, and was never born. Who then is meet to be God's rival?