I ask now, O born ones, the wise whose minds are held—bestowers of good deeds—who fashioned the sky. These you increase, O mighty ones, the prayers growing, the mind-winds going under the ordinances of right.

Ask of the lords (of earth, the holy teachers), the birth of those deified sages, who with well-governed minds, and diligent in sacred rites, fabricated the heavens; and may these propitiatory (praises), augmenting (your power) and rapid as the wind, reach you at this solemn rite.

Ask of the sages' mighty generations firm-minded and devout they framed the heaven. These are thy heart-sought strengthening directions, and they have come to be sky's upholders.