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1. SAVITAR,
golden-haired, hath lifted eastward, bright With the sunbeams, his eternal
lustre;
He in whose energy wise Pusan
marches, surveying all existence like a herdsman.
2 Beholding
men he sits amid the heaven filling the two world-halves and air's wide region.
He looks upon the rich
far-spreading pastures between the eastern and the western limit.
3 He, root of
wealth, the gatherer-up of treasures, looks with his might on every form and
figure.
Savitar, like a God.whose Law
is constant, stands in the battle for the spoil like Indra.
4 Waters from sacrifice
came to the Gandharva Visvavasu, O Soma, when they saw him.
Indra, approaching quickly,
marked their going, and looked around upon the Sun's enclosures.
5 This song
Visvavasu shall sing us, meter of air's mid-realm celestial Gandharva,
That we may know aright both
truth and falsehood: may he inspire our thoughts and help our praises.
6 In the
floods' track he found the bootyseeker: the rocky cow-pen's doors he threw wide
open.
These, the Gandharva told him,
Rowed with Amrta. Indra knew well the puissancc of the dragons.
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