a Eagerly we hail thee,

Eagerly would we kindle thee;

Eager bring the eager,

The fathers, to eat the offering.

b Thou, O Provider, art pre-eminent in wisdom;

Thou movest along the straightest path;

Through thy guidance, O drop, our fathers wisely divided

The treasure among the angels.

c By thee, O pure Provider, our ancient fathers

Wisely ordained the offerings;

Conquering, untroubled, do thou open the barriers;

Be generous to us in heroes and horses.

d Thou, O Provider, in accord with the fathers,

Hast stretched over sky and earth;

To thee, O drop, let us make sacrifice with offering;

Let us be lords of wealth.

e O God, grant that those who have gone before, made ready by Thy light, may receive Thy mercy; with good leadership may they be seated each in his place; let the offerings of charity be set out on the strew in their name; and give us wealth with many heroes.

f O ancestors, we have made these offerings of charity for you in the name of God; may God accept them, and may He come to us with His most healing aid, and give us health, wealth, and safety.

g I have found the kindly fathers, the scion and the step of the All-Pervading; they sit in the garden and enjoy the drink that is given them in the name of God.

h Remembered are the fathers who loved the truth in their dear homes; may their good deeds speak for us, and may they aid us by God's leave.

i Let them be raised, the lower and the higher and the middle fathers; they who lived their lives in goodness and without sin; may their example help us when we call.

k Be this homage today to the fathers, who went before and who went after; who are seated in the earthly region or who are now in abodes with fair dwellings.

l As our fathers before, of old, O Radiant One, furthering right, sought the pure, the devotion, singing hymns, cleaving the earth they disclosed the red ones.

m When, O Radiant One, bearer of oblations, thou sacrificest to the righteous fathers, thou shalt bear the oblations to God and for the fathers.

n Thou, O Radiant One, praised, all-knower, didst carry the offerings making them fragrant; accept, O God, the offerings set before thee.

o Matali with the Kavyas, Yama with the Angirases, the Lord of Prayer rejoicing with the Ribhus, those whom the angels magnified and those who magnified the angels; some in the Svaha call, some in the Svadha rejoice.

p Sit on this strew, O Yama, in accordance with the Angirases, the fathers; let the verses made by the poets bring thee hither; rejoice, O king, in this offering.

q Come with the Angirases who deserve the sacrifice; rejoice here with the Vairupas; I summon Virasvant, thy father, sitting down on the strew at this sacrifice.

r The Angirases, our fathers, the Navagvas, Atharvans, Bhrigus, who loved the provision; may we be in the favour of those worthy of sacrifice, may we have their kindly good will.