They performed rites on the plains, stirring fierce, dry-robed ones together with streams. As they unloosed all, they fought and took booty; Indra received the spoils.

Powerful Indra, men variously dispersed, come mutually together to celebrate sacred rites for the sake of obtaining rain; when men who are combatants assemble in battle, there are some of them who rely upon Indra.

Strong God! the folk at need put forth their vigour, striving together in the whirl of battle. When warrior bands encounter one another some in the grapple quit themselves like Indra.