They performed, made and decreed the lesser acts that the wise ones among the singers speak. Like a single husband to a maiden, so may Indra not reject me; may he be entirely favorable.

Such exploits as his worshippers, when the Soma is effused, proclaim that he has achieved, let himnow perform; may Indra, equal (to the task) and unaided, possess all the riches (of the asuras) as a husband hiswives.

These deeds he did; let him achieve new exploits, such as the priests declare at their libations. Indra hath taken and possessed all castles, like as one common husband doth his spouses.