Thus with a fierce voice they uttered a powerful hymn, the priests and chiefs in the royal hall; the fathers’ harsh ones, the sacrificers, stood up—seven priests performed the offering.

The fierce-voiced (Nābhānediṣṭha repeated) through his intelligence this praise of Rudra, in themidst of the ceremony at the assembly (of the Aṅgirasas), which (praise) his parents, making (the partition) andhis brothers engaged in giving (the shares accomplished); he perfected the seven priests (therewith) on the dayon which the rite was to be matured.

THE welcome speaker in the storm of battle uttered with might this prayer to win the Asvins, When the most liberal God, for Paktha, rescued his parents, and assailed the seven Hotras.