c O Radiant One, that of Thee which is pure, which is bright,

Which is cleansed, which is fit for offering,

That we bear to the angels' Lord.

d Food and strength do I take hence,

From the abode of holy order, from the birthplace of immortality.

May it enter us, in cattle and in plants;

I abandon decline, lack of food, and ill-health.

e O Radiant One, strength and fame are Thine,

Thy rays shine mightily, O rich in light;

O Thou of broad radiance, with Thy might, strength worthy of praise,

Thou bestowest on the worshipper, O sage.

f Do Thou extend over men, O Radiant One,

Ruling over wealth for us, O immortal One;

Thou art the master of a glorious form,

Thou fillest glorious wealth.

g O son of strength, O all-knower,

Rejoice in our fair praises, being adored in our prayers;

In Thee have they placed food, rich in seed,

Of wondrous aid, of prosperous birth.

h With pure radiance, with bright radiance,

With undiminished radiance, Thou comest forth with Thy light;

Visiting Thy parents Thou aidest them;

Thou fillest both worlds.

i The righteous, the bull, common to all men,

The Radiant One, men place before them for favour,

Thee with their speech, that art ready to hear and most extending,

The divine, the generations of men.

k Preparer of the sacrifice, the wise,

Who rules for great gain,

The giver of the Bhrgus, the eager, skilled in the sacrifice

Thou fillest glorious wealth.

l Ye are pilers, ye are pilers around, do ye pile upwards as a support, with that power, sit ye firm in the manner of Angiras.

m Swell up, let thy strength be gathered

From all sides, O Lord.

Be strong in the gathering of might.

n Let thy milk draughts, thy strength be united,

The mightinesses of him who overcomes the foe;

Swelling for immortality, O Lord,

Place in the sky the highest glories.

4.2.8

a He has overcome every foe, every enemy;

That the Radiant One says, that the Lord of provision says too;

The Lord of Prayer, the Light-giver, say this of me,

The Nourisher has placed me in the world of good action.

b When first thou didst cry on birth,

Arising from the ocean or the dust,

The wings of the eagle, the limbs of the gazelle,

That is thy famed birth, O steed.

c Thou art the back of the waters, the birthplace of the flame,

The ocean swelling on either side;

Growing to might as the lotus flower,

Do thou extend in width with the measure of heaven.

d The holy power born first in the east

The Wise One has disclosed from the shining boundary,

He has revealed its fundamental nearest forms,

The womb of being and of not being.

e The golden germ first rose;

Born he was the only lord of creation;

He supports the earth and the sky;

To what God shall we offer with oblation?

f The drop has fallen on the earth, the sky,

On this seat, and on the one which was aforetime;

The drop that wanders over the third seat

I offer in the seven offerings.

g We seek refuge in God from the serpents

Which are on the earth,

The serpents in the atmosphere, in the sky,

From those serpents we seek His protection.

h Those that are there in the vault of the sky,

Or those who are in the rays of the sun,

Those whose seat is made in the waters,

From those serpents we seek His protection.

i Those that are the missiles of sorcerers,

Or those that are among the trees,

Or those that lie in the wells,

From those serpents we seek His protection.

4.2.9

a Thou art firm, supporting, unoverpowered,

Well wrought by the Maker of all;

Let not the ocean smite thee, nor the eagle;

Unshaking do thou make firm the earth.

b May the Creator seat thee on the back of earth, capacious, extending; thou art extent, thou art earth, thou art the world, thou art the earth, thou art all-sustaining, sustainer of all the world; sustain the earth, make firm the earth, harm not the earth, for all expiration, cross-breathing, up-breathing, for support, for motion; may the Radiant One protect thee with great prosperity, with most auspicious covering; with that power, in the manner of Angiras, do thou sit firm.

c Arising from every stem,

From every joint,

Do thou, O Durva grass, extend us

With a thousand, a hundred.

d Thou that extendest with a hundred,

That arisest with a thousand,

To thee, O brick,

Let us sacrifice with oblation.

e Unovercomable art thou, overcoming, overcome our enemies, overcome those that practise enmity.

f Overcome the foe, overcome the foemen; of a thousandfold strength art thou; do thou inspirit me.

g To the pious the winds pour honey,

The streams honey;

Be sweet to us the plants.

h Sweet is the night, and sweet

At dawn the air of earth,

Sweet be the sky, our shelter.

i Sweet to us be the lord of the forest,

Sweet the sun,

Sweet be the cows to us.

k May the two great ones, sky and earth,

Mingle for us this sacrifice;

May they sustain us with support.

l That highest step of the All-Pervading

The singers ever gaze upon

Like an eye stretched in the sky.

m Thou art firm, O earth,

Overcome the foemen;

Fashioned by the angels hast thou come with ambrosia.

n Those beams of Thine, O Radiant One, which rising

In the sun with rays envelop the sky,

With all of them bring us to brilliance, to men.

o Those flames of yours in the sun, O angels, in cattle, in horses,

O Mighty One and Radiant One, O Lord of Prayer,

With all of these grant us brilliance.

p The brilliant bore the light, the shining bore the light, the self-resplendent bore the light.

q O Radiant One, yoke,

O God, Thy good steeds,

The swift that readily bear.