1To Indra and to Agni we bring reverence high and holy hymn, And, craving help, soft words with prayer.

2For all these holy singers thus implore these twain to succour them, And priests that they may win them strength.

3Eager to laud you, we with songs invoke you, bearing sacred food, Fain for success in sacrifice.

4Indra raised up the son aloft in heaven, that he may see afar: He burst the mountain for the kine. IX Indra-Agni