1 Before His hot displeasure all the peoples, all the men bow down, as rivers bend them to the sea.

2 This power of His shone brightly forth when God brought together like a skin the worlds of earth and heaven.

3 The fiercely-moving Vritra's head He severed with His thunderbolt, His hundred-knotted thunderbolt.

4 In all the worlds that was the best and highest whence sprang the mighty God, of splendid valour. As soon as He appears He overcomes His foemen, He in whom all who lend Him aid are joyful.

5 Grown mighty in His strength, with ample vigour, He as a foe strikes fear into the wicked, eager to win the breathing and the breathless. All sang Thy praise at banquet and offering.

6 All concentrate on Thee their mental vigour, what time these, twice or thrice, are Thine assistants. Blend what is sweeter than the sweet with sweetness: win quickly with our honey that honey in battle.

7 Therefore in Thee too, Thou who winnest riches, at every banquet are the sages joyful. With mightier power, bold God, extend Thy firmness: let not malignant evildoers harm Thee.

8 Proudly we put our trust in Thee in battles, when we behold great wealth, the prize of combat. I with my words impel Thy weapons onward, and sharpen with my prayer Thy vital vigour.

9 Worthy of praises, many-shaped, most skilful, most energetic, Aptya of the Aptyas: He with His might destroys the seven Danus, subduing many who were deemed His equals.

10 Thou in that house which Thy protection guards bestowest wealth, the higher and the lower. Thou stablishest the two much-wandering Mothers, and bringest many deeds to their completion.

11 Brihaddiva, the foremost of light-winners, repeats these holy prayers, this strength to God the Mighty. He rules the great self-luminous fold of cattle, and all the doors of light has He thrown open.

12 Thus has Brihaddiva, the great Atharvan, spoken to God as His servant. The spotless sisters, with power exalt him and impel him onward.

13 Bright sign of God's power, the luminous herald, the sun has mounted the celestial regions. Day's maker, he has shone away the darkness, and radiant passed over places hard to traverse.

14 The brilliant sign of God's power has risen, the eye of the Friend, of the All-Seeing, and of the Radiant; the sun has filled the earth and air and heaven by God's decree.

15 Even as a lover follows a maiden, so does the sun the dawn, refulgent sign of God: where pious men extend their generations before the Gracious One for happy fortune.