She who comes, bright at dawn, goes to the lord and is honored. Bearing old age, she moves the folk; birds lift up the falling in their flight.

Uṣas, nourishing (all), comes daily like a matron, the directress (of household duties), conducting all transient (creatures) to decay; (at her coming) each biped stirs and she wakes up the birds.

Like a good matron Usas comes carefully tending everything: Rousing all life she stirs all creatures that have feet, and makes the birds of air fly up.