2Make these return to us again, bring them beside us once again. May. Indra give them back to us, and Agni drive them hither−ward.

3Let them return to us again: under this herdsman let them feed. Do thou, O Agni, keep them here, and let the wealth we have remain.

41 call upon their herdsman, him who knoweth well their coming nigh, Their parting and their home−return, and watcheth their approach and rest.

5Yea, let the herdsman, too, return, who marketh well their driving−forth; Marketh their wandering away, their turning back and coming home.

6Home−leader, lead them home to us; Indra, restore to us our kine: We will rejoice in them alive.

71 offer you on every side butter and milk and strengthening food. May all the Holy Deities pour down on us a flood of wealth.

8O thou Home−leader, lead them home, restore them thou who bringest home. Four are the quarters of the earth; from these bring back to us our kine,