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1. BY your high Law firm order is
established there where they loose for travel Surya's horses.
Ten hundred stood together: there I looked on this the most
marvellous Deities' one chief glory.
2 This, Mitra-Varuna, is your special
greatness: floods that stood there they with the days attracted.
Ye cause to flow all voices of the cowpen: your single
chariotfelly hath rolled hither.
3 O Mitra-Varuna, ye by your greatness,
both Kings, have firmly stablished earth and heaven,
Ye caused the cows to stream, the plants to flourish, and,
scattering swift drops, sent down the rain-flood.
4 Let your well-harnessed horses bear you
hither: hitherward let them come with reins drawn tightly.
A covering cloud of sacred oil attends you, and your streams
flow to us from days aforetime.
5 To make the lustre wider and more famous,
guarding the sacred grass with veneration,
Ye, Mitra-Varuna, firm, strong, awe-inspiring, are seated on
a throne amid oblations.
6 With hands that shed no blood, guarding
the pious, whom, Varuni3, ye save amid oblations.
Ye Twain, together, Kings of willing spirit, uphold dominion
based on thousand pillars.
7 Adorned with gold, its columns are of
iron. in heaven it glitters like a whip for horses;
Or stablished on a field deep-spoiled and fruitful. So may
we share the meath that loads your car-seat.
8 Ye mount your car gold-hued at break of
morning, and iron-pillared when the Sun is setting,
And from that place, O Varuna and Mitra, behold infinity and
limit~tion.
9 Bountiful guardians of the world! the
shelter that is impenetrable, strongest, flawless,
Aid us with that, O Varuna and Mitra, and when we long to
win may we be victors.
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