At the black ford the two guardians looked on; they both carried the infant to the mother. Destroying the eastern tongue that cries, the most thirsty chariot increases the father’s wrath.

Both his associated mothers, blackened (by combustion), are in movement, and give birth to an infant, whose tongue (of flame glows) in the east; (who) dissipates darkness; (who) rapidly issues forth; (who) is readily developed; (who) is (ever) to be cherished, and is the augmenter (of the prosperity) of his parent, (the instrumental tutor of the rite).

The pair who dwell together, moving in the dark bestir themselves: both parents hasten to the babe, Impetuous-tongued, destroying, springing swiftly forth, one to be watched and cherished, strengthener of his sire.