a To the flying eagle hail! Vat! To him who approves himself, homage. To the support, the law, hail! Vat! To him who approves himself, homage. To the enclosing-stick which extends men, hail! Vat! To him who approves himself, homage. To the strength of the Hotras, hail! Vat! To him who approves himself, homage. To the milk of the Hotras, hail! Vat! To him who approves himself, homage. To the Creator, to Manu, hail! Vat! To him who approves himself, homage. Right, guardian of right, heaven-bearing, hail! Vat! To him who approves himself, homage.

b Let the Hotras delight in the sweet ghee.

c To the lord of the sacrifice the seers said,

"By thy sin creatures are famishing and troubled";

He did not secure the two drops of honey;

May the Maker of all unite us with them.

d Dread are the seers; homage be to them,

In the union with their eye and mind;

To the Lord of Prayer great, real, and glorious reverence;

Homage to the Maker of all; may He guard us.

e Deeming that the drinkers of the provision are his own,

Knowing the breath like a valiant man in battles,

He has committed a great sin and is bound by them;

Him set free, O Maker of all, for safety.

f Those who, eating, deserved not riches,

Whom the fires of the hearths did trouble,

That is their offering to expiate the ill sacrifice

A good sacrifice for us may the Maker of all make it.

g Remembrance of the fathers, who have watched around us,

Making the sacrifice, loving the sacrifice, the benignant ones;

We have not brought you the offering without desires;

Trouble us not for this sin.

h All those who are in the Sadas must have presents; he who did not give them a present would fall into loss; in that he offers the libations to the Maker of all, he thus delights those who are in the Sadas.

i Ye righteous, have regard to this wonder,

The good thing which the husband and wife win with the milk admixture;

A male child is born, he finds riches,

And all the house prospers unhurt.

k May the husband and wife who give the milk admixture win good;

May wealth unharmed attend them dwelling in harmony;

May he, who pours that which has been milked together with the pot of the provision,

By the sacrifice leave misfortune on his way.

l Butter-necked, fat is his wife;

Fat his sons and not meagre,

Who with his wife eager to offer a good sacrifice

Has given to the Mighty the milk admixture together with the pot of the provision.

m May the milk admixture place in me strength and good offspring

And food, wealth and fair fame,

Me that am conquering the fields with might, O Mighty One,

And casting down my rivals.

n Thou art being, place me in being; thou art the mouth, may I be the mouth.

o From sky and earth I take thee.

p May all the angels, belonging to all men, move thee forward.

q In the sky make firm the angels, in the atmosphere the birds, on earth the creatures of earth.

r With the firm offering the firm

Provision we transfer,

That the whole world may be for us

Free of sickness and of kindly intent;

s That the Mighty may make

All the clans for us of one mind,

That all the quarters

May be ours alone.