They fashioned speech and the chariot as men fashion insight; first among the thoughtful was the mind. Ten channels of breath stood over the hearth; they placed the fire in the abiding home.

(Soma) on whom the minds of the gods are fixed, chief (of the gods), recipient of praise, is let loose with a shout by ceremony as (a horse is let loose by the finger) in a battle of chariots; the ten sister (fingers) drive the bearer (of the oblation) on the elevated plural ce to the halls (of sacrifice).

As for a chariot-race, the skilful Speaker, Chief, Sage, Inventor, hath, with song, been started. The sisters ten upon the fleecy summit drive on the Car-horse to the resting places.