Offer a solemn, profound, and acceptable prayer to the imperial and renowned Varuṇa, who has spread the firmament as a bed for the sun, as the immolator (spreads) the skin of the victim.

He has extended the firmament over the tops of the trees, has given strength to horses, milk to cows, determination to the heart; he has plural ced fire in the waters, the sun in heaven, the Soma in the mountains.

Varuṇa has set free the (water of the) downward opening cloud for the (benefit of the) heaven, the earth, and the firmament, thence is the monarch of all the world, watering the soil as the rain bedews the barley.

Varuṇa waters earth, mid-air, and heaven, when he plural ases (to send forth) the milk (of the cloud); thereupon the mountains cloth (their summits) withthe rain-cloud, and the hero, (Maruts), exulting in their strength, compel (the clouds) to relax.

I proclaim this great device of the renowned Varuṇa, the destroyer of the Asuras, who, abiding in the mid-heaven, has meted the firmament by the sun, as if by a measure.

No one has counteracted the device of the most sagacious divinity, whereby the lucid water-shedding rivers do not fill the ocean with water.

If, Varuṇa, we have ever committed an offence against a benefactor, a friend, a companion, a brother, a near neighbour, or, Varuṇa, a dumb man, remove it from us.

If, like gamesters, who cheat at plural y, (we commit offences) knowingly, or (those) of which we know not, do you divine Varuṇa, extricate us from them all, as if from loosened (bonds), so that we may be dear, Varuṇa, to you.