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1. Time, the steed, runs with seven reins (rays),
thousand-eyed, ageless, rich in seed. The seers, thinking holy thoughts, mount
him, all the beings (worlds) are his wheels.
2. With seven wheels does this Time ride, seven naves has
he, immortality is his axle. He carries hither all these beings (worlds). Time,
the first god, now hastens onward.
3. A full jar has been placed upon Time; him, verily, we
see existing in many forms. He carries away all these beings (worlds); they
call him Time in the highest heaven.
4. He surely did bring hither all the beings (worlds), he
surely did encompass all the beings (worlds). Being their father, he became
their son; there is, verily, no other force, higher than he.
5. Time begot yonder heaven, Time also (begot) these
earths. That which was, and that which shall be, urged forth by Time, spreads
out.
6. Time created the earth, in Time the sun burns. In Time
are all beings, in Time the eye looks abroad.
7. In Time mind is fixed, in Time breath (is fixed), in
Time names (are fixed); when Time has arrived all these creatures rejoice.
8. In Time tapas (creative fervour) is fixed; in Time the
highest (being is fixed); in Time brahma (spiritual exaltation) is fixed; Time
is the lord of everything, he was the father of Pragâpati.
9. By him this (universe) was urged forth, by him it was
begotten, and upon him this (universe) was founded. Time, truly, having become
the brahma (spiritual exaltation), supports Parameshthin (the highest lord).
10. Time created the creatures (pragâh), and Time in the
beginning (created) the lord of creatures (Prâgapati); the self-existing
Kasyapa and the tapas (creative fervour) from Time were born.
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