I — The Purifying Provision of God

1 The angels with their troop adorn and brighten, even at his birth, the Sage, the lovely infant. By songs a poet, and a Sage by wisdom, the gift goes singing through the cleansing filter.

2 Light-winner, minded as the righteous, maker of the righteous, hymned in a thousand hymns, leader of sages, eager to gain his third form, mighty, he is resplendent as a singer.

3 Hawk seated in the press, bird wide-extended, the banner seeking kine and wielding weapons, uniting with the sea, the wave of waters, the mighty tells his fourth form and declares it.

II — The Purifying Provision of God

1 Obeying the dear desire of the Mighty these juices have flowed forth, increasing His heroic might.

2 Laid in the press and flowing pure to the Wind and the helpers, may these give us great heroic strength.

3 As thou art purified, incite to bounty the heart of the Mighty, to seat Him in the shrine of the righteous!

4 The ten swift fingers deck thee forth, seven ministers impel thee on, the sages have rejoiced in thee.

5 When through the filter thou art poured we clothe thee with a robe of milk, to be a rapturous feast for the righteous.

6 When purified within the jars, bright-red and golden-hued, he hath veiled him in a milky dress.

7 Flow onward to our wealthy lords. Drive all our enemies away: pass into thy friend!

8 May we obtain thee, drink of the Mighty, who viewest men and findest light, gain thee and progeny and food!

9 Send down the rain from heaven and make splendour upon the earth! Give us victory in war!

III — The Purifying Provision of God

1 Poured through the fleece in thousand streams purified he floweth to the meeting-place of the Mighty and the Wind.

2 Sing forth, ye men who long for help, to the Purifier, to the Sage, effused to entertain the righteous!

3 The drops with thousand powers are purified to win us strength, hymned to become the feast of the righteous.

4 Yea, as thou flowest bring great store of food that we may win us strength: bring splendid manly might.

5 Like coursers by their drivers urged, they were poured forth, to win us strength, swift through the woollen straining-cloth.

6 May they in flowing give us wealth in thousands, and heroic power—these gifts effused!

7 The roaring drops flow on, like milch-kine lowing to their calves: they have run forth from both the hands.

8 Beloved by the Mighty, bringing joy, roaring as thou art purified, drive all our enemies away.

9 As purifiers, driving off the godless, looking on the light, sit in the place of worship.

IV — The Purifying Provision of God

1 The drops, exceeding rich in sweets, for the Mighty have been poured, shed with the stream of worship.

2 Sages have called to the Mighty, like cows, milch-kine, lowing to their calves, called Him to accept the gift.

3 In the stream's wave the wise one dwells, distilling rapture, in his seat, resting upon a wild cow's hide.

4 Far-sighted, Sage and bard, is worshipped in the central point of heaven, the straining-cloth of wool.

5 In close embracement it holds the gift when poured within the jars, and on the purifying sieve.

6 It sends forth a voice on high, up in the region of the sea, stirring the cask that drops with sweetness.

7 The tree whose praises never fail dwells in the stream of holy milk, urged onward by its human friend.

8 O Purifier, bring us wealth bright with a thousand splendours; yea, give us ready help!

9 Sage, poet, poured with all his stream, he is driven, far away, to the dear places of the sky.

V — The Purifying Provision of God

1 Loud as a river's roaring wave thy powers have lifted up themselves: urge on thine arrow's sharpened point!

2 At thine effusion upward rise three voices fresh and strong, when thou flowest upon the fleecy ridge.

3 On to the fleece they urge with stones the dear, the golden-coloured one, the purifier dropping sweetness.

4 Flow with thy current to the sieve, O Sage, best giver of delight, to seat these in the shrine of song!

5 Best giver of delight, flow on anointed with the milk for balm, and enter into the throat of the Mighty!

VI — The Purifying Provision of God

1 Flow onward with this food for him who in thy wild delights battered the nine-and-ninety down.

2 Smote swiftly forts, for the sake of the pious!

3 Finder of horses, pour on us horses and wealth in kine and gold, and food in boundless store!

VII — The Purifying Provision of God

1 Chasing our foemen, driving off the godless, it floweth on, going to the Mighty's settled place.

2 O Purifier, hither bring great riches, and destroy our foes: grant heroic fame!

3 A hundred obstacles have ne'er checked thee when rain to give thy boons, when, being cleansed, thou combatest.

VIII — The Purifying Provision of God

1 Flow onward with that stream wherewith thou gavest splendour to the sun, speeding the waters kind to man!

2 He, the Purifier, high o'er man, yoked the sun's courser to travel through the realm of air.

3 Yea, those bay steeds he harnessed to the chariot that the sun might come, by the command of the Mighty.

IX — God the Radiant

1 Associate with fires, make your God envoy at worship, best skilled in worship, established firm among mankind, the holy flame-crowned and fed with oil, the purifier!

2 Like a steed neighing eager for the pasture, when he hath stepped forth from the great enclosure: then the wind following blows upon his splendour, and, straight, the path is black which thou hast travelled.

3 From thee, a bull but newly born, O God, the kindled everlasting flames rise upward. Aloft to heaven as ruddy smoke thou mountest: Thy command speeds to the angels as messenger.

X — God the Mighty

1 We make this Mighty One very strong to strike the mighty evil dead: a vigorous hero shall He be.

2 This Mighty One, made for giving gifts, is established, mightiest, in strength, bright, meet for the gift, famed in song.

3 By song, as 'twere the powerful bolt which none may parry, was prepared: strong and invincible He grew.

XI — The Purifying Provision of God

1 Servant, to the filter lead the juice expressed with stones: make thou it pure for the Mighty's drink!

2 These angels and all the host, enjoy this juice of thine, this Purifier's flowing sweetness.

3 Pour out for the Mighty, Thunder-armed, the milk of heaven, the juice, most excellent, most rich in sweets!

XII — The Purifying Provision of God

1 On flows the potent juice, sustainer of the heavens, the strength of the righteous, whom men must hail with shouts of joy. Thou, gold-hued, started like a courser by brave men, art lightly showing forth thy splendour in the streams.

2 He takes his weapons, like a hero, in his hands, fain to win light, car-borne, in forays for the kine. While stimulating the might of the Mighty, he is urged forward and balmed by sages skilful in their task.

3 As thou art purified with flowing wave, exhibiting thy strength enter thou the throat of the Mighty. Make both worlds stream for us, as lightning doth the clouds: mete out exhaustless powers for us through this our prayer!

XIII — God the Mighty

1 Though, O Mighty, Thou art called by men eastward and westward, north and south, Thou chiefly art with the faithful, brave champion! urged by men to come.

2 Or, O Mighty, when Thou rejoicest with the pious, still do the people, bringing prayer, with hymns of praise draw Thee hither: come!

XIV — God the Mighty

1 Both boons—may the Mighty, hitherward turned, listen to this prayer of ours, and the Bountiful with thought inclined to us come near to accept the gift!

2 For Him, strong, independent ruler, Heaven and Earth have been fashioned forth with power and might. Thou seatest Thee as first among Thy peers in place, for Thy soul longs for the gift.

XV — The Purifying Provision of God

1 Working with mankind flow on; to the Mighty go thy gladdening juice: to the Wind mount as Law commands!

2 O Purifier, thou pourest out wealth that may be famed: pass into the lake!

3 Thou flowest chasing foes, finder of wisdom and delight: drive thou the godless folk afar!

XVI — The Purifying Provision of God

1 Stream on us riches that are craved by hundreds, best at winning spoil, riches thousandfold, most splendid, that surpass the light!

2 May we, O Provider, be most near to this thy bounty, food, and wealth! Desired by many men, and in thy favour, O resistless one!

3 Effused, this hath flowed on, distilling rapture, to the fleece. He streams erect to worship, as 'twere with splendour, seeking kine.

XVII — The Purifying Provision of God

1 Flow onward, as a mighty sea, as gift of the Lord of angels, to every form!

2 Flow on, radiant for the righteous, blissful to heaven and earth and living things!

3 Thou art, bright juice, sustainer of the sky: flow, mighty, in accordance with true law!

XVIII — God the Radiant

1 I laud your most beloved guest, like a dear friend, O God, Him who, like a chariot, wins us wealth.

2 Whom as a Sage who merits praise the angels have, from the olden time, established among mortal men as a sign.

3 Do Thou, most youthful God, protect the men who offer, hear their songs, and of Thyself preserve their seed!

XIX — God the Mighty

1 Come unto us, O Mighty, dear, still conquering, unconcealable, wide as a mountain spread on all sides, Lord of heaven.

2 O truthful Lord, Thou art mightier than both the worlds. Thou strengthenest him who pours the offering, Lord of heaven.

3 For Thou art He, O Mighty, who upholdeth all our fortresses, overthrower of the wicked, man's sustainer, Lord of heaven.

XX — God the Mighty

1 Render of forts, the young, the wise, of strength unmeasured, was He known, Sustainer of each sacred rite, the Thunderer, much extolled.

2 Thou wielder of the stone, didst burst the cave of the miser rich in kine. The righteous came pressing to Thy side, and free from terror aided Thee.

3 They glorified with hymns of praise the Mighty One who reigneth by His might, whose bounteous gifts in thousands come, yea, even more abundantly.