a By the Radiant One may one win wealth

And abundance day by day,

Glory, full of heroes.

b Rich in cattle, in sheep, O Radiant One, in horses is the sacrifice;

With manly companions, ever unalterable;

Rich in food is this, O Lord, in offspring,

Enduring, wealth, deep based and rich in houses.

c Swell up.

d Together for thee.

e Here the Fashioner the first,

Of all forms, I call.

May He be ours only.

f That procreant strength for us do thou,

O God the Fashioner, graciously let loose,

Whence is born a hero of great deeds, of skill,

Who wields the pressing-stone and loves the righteous.

g Come hither, O Fashioner, propitious,

Pervasive for abundance, and of thy own will,

Aid us in every sacrifice.

h The hero is born, loving the righteous,

Of brilliant hue, strong, and full of vigour;

May the Fashioner accord us offspring and descendants;

May he go to the place of God.

i Forth for us, O bounty.

k From the sky.

l May we milk offspring and food

From Sarasvant's breast,

Swelling for all to see.

m May we enjoy the favour

Of thy waves, O Sarasvant,

Which are full of honey and drip ghee.

n Let us call for aid on this Sarasvant,

Whose ordinance all cattle follow,

Whose ordinance the waters obey,

And in whose ordinance the lord of increase rests.

o The well-feathered bird, the great one,

Germ of the waters, male of the plants,

Who delights with rain from near,

This Sarasvant let us call on for aid.

p O Sinivali, with broad braids,

Who art the sister of the angels,

Accept the offering which is made;

Reveal, O bounty, offspring unto us.

q To her that has fair hands, fair fingers,

Prolific, and mother of many,

To her the queen Sinivali,

Pour the offering.

r The Mighty from all sides.

s The Mighty, men.

t The dark-coloured steeds with fair feathers,

Clad in the mist, spring up to the sky;

They turn hitherward having established their abodes;

Then the earth is wet with ghee.

u He has golden tresses in the expanse of the air,

A raging serpent like the rushing wind,

With pure radiance, knowing the dawn,

Like true, glorious and toiling women.

v Thy winged steeds have charged them as they are wont;

The dark bull has roared when this was;

He has come hither with lightnings that smile like kindly women;

The rains fall, the clouds thunder.

w Like a cow the lightning lows;

It tends its young like a mother,

When their rain has been let loose.

x The mountain that has waxed great is afraid

Even the ridge of heaven trembles at your roaring;

When ye sport, O Maruts, with your spears,

Ye speed along together like the waters.

y Roar and thunder, deposit a germ,

Fly around with thy chariot water-laden;

Draw downward thy opened water-skin,

And let the heights and the depths be level.

z Even these immovable things dost thou eat,

O Radiant One, like a beast at grass;

What time, O lasting one, the hosts of thee,

The strong, rend the woods.

aa O Radiant One, many are the hosts of the all-knower,

O God, powerful; and many the wiles of the wily

Which of yore they deposited in thee,

O thou that impellest all, O seeker of friends.

bb From the sky grant us rain, O ye Maruts;

Make ye to swell the streams of the strong steed

Come hither with this thunder,

Pouring the waters, the Lord our father.

cc The bounteous Maruts make to swell the waters

Which yield milk with ghee for the sacrifices;

The strong steer they lead about as it were for rain;

They milk the thundering and never-failing spring.

dd O ye Maruts, swimming in water, send forth

The rain, which all the Maruts strengthen;

May it call aloud like a maiden,

Like a wife with her husband in union.

ee With ghee anoint sky and earth, with honey;

Make the plants rich in milk, the waters;

Make to swell strength and goodwill,

When, O hero Maruts, ye pour the honey.

ff Upwards that.

gg The radiant.

hh Like Aurva, like Bhrigu, like Apnavana,

I summon the pure

Radiant One who is clothed with the sea.

ii As the impulse of the Light-giver,

The favour of Bhaga, I call

The Radiant One who is clothed with the sea.

kk I call the wise one, who sounds like the wind,

The might that roars like the rain-cloud,

The Radiant One who is clothed with the sea.