Savitar, God, drive far away from us, we pray all that is sorrowful and calamitous. Send us only what is good and lovely. May we be without sin in the eyes of Aditi through the gracious favour of God Savitar. May we have all good and lovely things. We, this day with our lauds, choose the general God, Lord of beatitude, Savitar whose laws are inviolate. It is Savitar, the wise God, who precedes both the Day and Night. It is Savitar, who gives glory to all the beings with the song, bringing them forth.

I invoke with these hymns the Mighty God, famed Parjanya, the bellowing Bull with speedy streams, loud roaring who deposits a seed in plants for germination. He flattens the trees and slays the demons; all living beings fear his mighty stroke. From his mighty strength even the innocent flee, when he, thundering strikes the wicked. Like a driver urging his car-horses with a whip, he drives on he messengers of rain. From afar is heard the roaring of the lion when Parjanya fills the heaven with rain-clouds. The winds burst forth, the lightnings flash, the plants shoot up, the heavens pour streams, the sap surges up in every stem, when Parjanya quickens the earth with a seed. You at whose command the earth bow in obeisance before thee, at whose command the hoofed-beings scamper in fear, at whose bidding flowers wear different colours and shapes, O Parjanya, grant us protection!

Send down, O Maruts, rain for us from heaven, and let the Stallion pour forth his life-giving flow. Come here with your thundering, pour forth the floods, O our divine Lord and Father! Thunder and roar, deposit the seed. Circle round us in thy car heavy laden with rain. Tip downward your opened water-skin and level the high places, fill in the hollows! Lift the great vessel up, let it spill over, let the waters pour downs and flow forth. Saturate both the heaven and earth with fatness, and let there be thirst-quenching pools in plenty. When, O Parjanya, roaring in fury and thundering you strike the wicked down, then the whole universe shouts in exaltation, yea, everything that exists upon the earth. You have poured down the floods, now stop it, we pray. You have made the deserts fir for travel. You have made the plants flourish for our enjoyment. So, now receive the grateful praise in return!

You, mighty Earth bear the burden of massive mountains on your shoulders, rich in torrents, you germinate the seed with quickening power. For you resound now our hymns of praise, O wanderer at will, bright one. Like a neighing mare you drive away abroad the swelling clouds. You hold fast the forests with your great strength, when rains and lightning from the clouds in heaven descend.

Sing thou the hymn sublime, profound and dear to renowned Varuna, the Lord of all, to him who tore away, even as one who skins a beast, that he might spread the earth before the Sun. On the tree-tops he spread out the mid-air, put milk in kine and strength in steeds, in hearts he put spirit, fire, in the waters, the Sun in heaven and soma on the mountains. Varuna poured forth the waters on the earth, heaven and the mid-air, the lord of waters whose windows open earthward. He, the lord of the universe, floods the earth as the rains floods a field of barley. He floods the vast earth and heaven, yea, when fain for milk, he pours it forth. Then the mountains are clothed with clouds, the Maruts put forth their strength and cast it down. I will declare the mysterious deeds of Varuna, renowned, the Lord immortal, who standing in the firmament has measured out the earth as it were, with a yard-stick. Vast is his wisdom, the greatest of the Gods, and none has ever hindered or done violence against it. Therefore, all the rushing rivers pour themselves into one sea and yet cannot fill it. Whatever sin we might have committed against the man who loves us, have wronged a brother or a friend, or a companion, against a constant neighbour, or a stranger, remove this sin from us, O Varuna! If we have committed a sin like cunning gamesters who cheat at play, or have done wrong or sinned against the law in ignorance, cast away all these sins from us like loosened bonds, and let us be then your beloved ones, O Varuna.