a He by thy help, O Radiant One,

With good heroes, making strength, is victorious,

Whose companionship thou dost favour.

b Your ancient lofty praise bear

To the Radiant One, the Hotr

The creator who bears as it were the light of songs.

c O Radiant One, three are thy powers, three thy stations,

Three are thine ancient tongues, O born of holy order;

Three are thy bodies in which the righteous find pleasure,

With them guard thou our songs unfailing.

d With the rite, with food I impel you,

O Mighty One and All-Pervading, to the end of this work;

Rejoice in the sacrifice and bestow wealth,

Furthering us with safe ways.

e Both are victorious, they are not defeated

Neither of them at any time has been defeated;

When, with the Mighty One, O All-Pervading, ye did strive,

Then did ye in three divide the thousand.

f Three ages are thine, O All-knower,

Three births in the dawns, O Radiant One;

With them, knowing, do thou propitiate the righteous,

And be for the sacrificer health and wealth.

g The Radiant One abides in three abodes

Of three foundations, the sage;

May He offer and may He satisfy for us,

The three sets of eleven angels;

The wise envoy made ready,

Let the others all be rent asunder.

h O Mighty One and All-Pervading, ye overthrew

The nine and ninety strong forts of Shambara;

Of Varchin, the rejecter, a hundred and a thousand heroes

Do ye slay irresistibly.

i Then did his mother seek to persuade him,

"O son, these are abandoning thee."

Then said the Mighty One, about to slay Vritra,

"O friend All-Pervading, step thou more widely."