If this great fame is pleasing to men, O Indra, may it not fail me on the day of sacrifice. Indra, I invoke thee to grant increase of the herd and hold the earth; I offer the oblation as to the sky.

Heaven and earth are insufficient for the girth of that Indra, who, with his greatness, rules over the leaders (of sacrifice); as the atmosphere encompasses the earth, so he encompasses (the three worlds), and, being the master of the rain, he upholds the sky as well as the firmament and the earth.

Him who surpasses heroes in his greatness: the earth and heavens suffice not for his girdles. Indra endues the earth to be his garment, and, God-like, wears the heaven as 'twere a frontlet,