Mandala 6

"With Bow let us win kine, with Bow the battle, with Bow be victors in our hot encounters. The Bow brings grief and sorrow to the foeman: armed with the Bow may we subdue all regions."

"Brbu hath set himself above the Panis, o'er their highest head, Like the wide bush on Ganga's bank."

"She, the holy follower of Universal Order, [Sarasvatī,] has spread us all [the five tribes of the Vedic people (stanza 12)] beyond enmities, beyond the other [seven] sister-rivers, as the sun spreads out the days."

"[The composer begs the river Sarasvatī:] "let us not go from thee to distant countries"."

"After smiting two Dåsas, he distributes the vast bounty seized from them, which includes “ten horses, ten casks, ten garments [...] ten chariots with side-horses, a hundred cows” (6.47.23–24)."

"Two wagon-teams, with damsels, twenty oxen, O Agni, Abhyåvartin Chåyamåna, The liberal Sovran, giveth me. This guerdon of P®ithu’s seed is hard to win from others."