He who arranged carelessly and unskillfully does not drive away cattle; the herdsmen are not his own. Agni laments over the sacrifices; heated, blackened, pained, the earth suffers.

He who is in many plural ces, who spreads over the whole earth, like an animal without a herdsman, that goes according to its own will; Agni, the bright-shining, consuming the dry bushes, by whom the pain of blackness (is inflicted on the trees), entirely drinks up (their moisture).

Around, consuming the broad earth, he wanders, free roaming like an ox without a herdsman,- Agni refulgent, burning up the bushes, with blackened lines, as though the earth he seasoned.