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1They who by thought have guided all that Speech hath best, or
they who with their heart have uttered words of truth,
Made stronger by the strength which the third prayer bestows,
have by the fourth prayer learned the nature of the Cow.
2Well knows this son his sire, he knows his mother well: he hath
been son, and he hath been illiberal.
He hath encompassed heaven, and air's mid-realm, and sky; he
hath become this All; he hath come nigh to us.

1Invoke for us, proclaim in sundry places, the kinsman of the
Gods, our sire Atharvan,
His mother's germ, his father's breath, the youthful, who with
his mind hath noticed this oblation.

1With thine eleven teams, to aid our wishes, yea, with thy two-
and-twenty teams, O Vāyu,
With all thy three-and-thirty teams for drawing, here loose these
teams, thou who art prompt to listen!

1Invoke for us, proclaim in sundry places, the kinsman of the
Gods, our sire Atharvan,
His mother's germ, his father's breath, the youthful, who with
his mind hath noticed this oblation.

1The Gods adored the Sacrifice with worship: these were the
statutes of primeval ages.
Those mighty ones attained the cope of heaven, there where the
Sādhyas, Gods of old, are dwelling.
2Sacrifice was, was manifest among us: it sprang to life and then
in time grew stronger.
Then it became thedeities' lord and ruler: may it bestow on us
abundant riches.
3Where the Gods worshipped Gods with their oblation, worship-
ped immortals with immortal spirit, p. a272
There in the loftiest heaven may we be happy, and look upon
that light when Sūrya rises.
4With their oblation, Purusha, the Gods performed a sacrifice.
A sacrifice more potent still they paid with the invoking hymn.
5With dog the Gods, perplexed, have paid oblation, and with
cow's limbs in sundry sacrifices.
Invoke for us, in many a place declare him who with his mind.
hath noticed this our worship.

1I have sung praise to Diti's sons and Aditi's, those very lofty and
invulnerable Gods.
For far within the depths of ocean is their home and in the wor-
ship paid them none excelleth these.

1I have sung praise to Diti's sons and Aditi's, those very lofty and
invulnerable Gods.
For far within the depths of ocean is their home and in the wor-
ship paid them none excelleth these.

1Go forward on thy way from good to better: Brihaspati pre-
cede thy steps and guide thee! p. a274
Place this man here, within this earth's enclosure, afar from foes
with all his men about him.

1Pūshan was born to move on distant pathways, on roads remote
from earth, remote from heaven.
To both most lovely places of assembly he travels and returns
with perfect knowledge.
2Pūshan knows all these realms: may he conduct us by ways that
are most free from fear and danger.
Giver of blessings, glowing, all heroic, may he the wise and
watchful go before us.
3We are thy praisers here, O Pūshan: never let us be injured
under thy protection.
4From out the distance, far and wide, may Pūshan stretch his
right hand forth.
Let him drive back our lost to us, let us return with what is lost.

1That breast of thine, exhaustless and delightful, good to invoke,
beneficent, free giver.
Wherewith thou feedest all things that are choicest, bring that,
Sarasvati, that we may drain it.

1That far-spread thunder, sent from thee, which cometh on all
this world, a high celestial signal
Strike not, O God, our growing corn with lightning, not kill it
with the burning rays of Sūrya.

1In concord may Prajapati's two daughters, Gathering and As-
sembly, both protect me.
May every man I meet respect and aid me. Fair be my words,
O Fathers, at the meetings.
2We know thy name, O Conference: thy name is interchange of
talk.
Let all the company who join the Conference agree with me.
3Of these men seated here I make the splendour and the lore
mine own.
Indra, make me conspicuous in all this gathered company.
4Whether your thoughts are turned away, or bound and fastened
here or there,
We draw them hitherward again: let your mind firmly rest on
me.