You ward off foes; son, do not be captive to envious men. If you burn the cattle in the forest, the animals will not prosper.

You are laid hold of with difficulty like the young of tortuously-twining (snakes); you who are the consumer of many forests, as an animal is of fodder.

Yea, very hard art thou to grasp, like offspring of the wriggling snakes, When thou consumest many woods like an ox, Agni, in the mead.