How unto the great Asura didst thou speak here? how, with shining manliness, unto the yellow (hári) father? having given, O Varuṇa, a spotted [cow] as sacrificial fee, thou hast with the mind intended (? cikits) re-bestowal (?).
na kāmena punarmagho bhavāmi saṃ cakṣe kaṃ pṛśnim etām upāje | kena nu tvam atharvan kāvyena kena jātenāsi jātavedāḥ ||2||
Not at pleasure am I a re-bestower; for examination (?) do I drive home this spotted [cow]; by what poesy (kā́vya) now, O Atharvan, [art] thou [poet]? by what that is produced (jātá) art thou jātávedas?
सत्यम् अहं गभीरः काव्येन सत्यं जातेनास्मि जातवेदाः । न मे दासो नार्यो महित्वा व्रतं मीमाय यद् अहं धरिष्ये ॥३॥
satyam ahaṃ gabhīraḥ kāvyena satyaṃ jātenāsmi jātavedāḥ | na me dāso nāryo mahitvā vrataṃ mīmāya yad ahaṃ dhariṣye ||3||
I verily am profound by poesy; verily by what is produced I am jātávedas; not barbarian (dāsá), not Aryan, by his might, damageth (mī) the course which I shall maintain.
न त्वद् अन्यः कवितरो न मेधया धीरतरो वरुण स्वधावन् । त्वं ता विश्वा भुवनानि वेत्थ स चिन् नु त्वज् जनो मायी बिभाय ॥४॥
na tvad anyaḥ kavitaro na medhayā dhīrataro varuṇa svadhāvan | tvaṃ tā viśvā bhuvanāni vettha sa cin nu tvaj jano māyī bibhāya ||4||
None else than thou is more poet, nor by wisdom (medhá) more wise (dhī́ra), O Varuṇa, self-ruling one (svadhā́vant); thou knowest all these beings; even that wily man (jána) now is afraid of thee.
Since thou verily, O self-ruling Varuṇa, knowest all births, O well-conducting one—is there anything else beyond the welkin (rájas)? is there anything below what is beyond, O unerring one (? amura)?
ekaṃ rajasa enā paro anyad asty enā para ekena durṇaśaṃ cid arvāk | tat te vidvān varuṇa pra bravīmy adhovacasaḥ paṇayo bhavantu nīcair dāsā upa sarpantu bhūmim ||6||
There is one other thing beyond the welkin; there is something, hard to attain, hitherward from what is beyond: this I Varuṇa, knowing it, proclaim to thee. Be the paṇi 's of degraded speech; let the barbarians creep (sṛp) downward to the earth.
Since thou verily, O Varuṇa, speakest many reproachful things among (as to ?) re-bestowers, do not thou, I pray, belong to (abhi-bhū) such paṇís; let not people call thee ungenerous (arādhás).
Let not people call me ungenerous; I give thee back the spotted [cow], O singer; come thou mightily (çácībhis) to every song of praise (stotrá) of mine, among all human regions (díç).
आ ते स्तोत्राण्य् उद्यतानि यन्त्व् अन्तर् विश्वासु मानुषीषु दिक्षु । देहि नु मे यन् मे अदत्तो असि युज्यो मे सप्तपदः सखासि ॥९॥
ā te stotrāṇy udyatāni yantv antar viśvāsu mānuṣīṣu dikṣu | dehi nu me yan me adatto asi yujyo me saptapadaḥ sakhāsi ||9||
Let uplifted (ud-yam) songs of praise of thee come, among all human regions. Give now to me what thou hast not given me; thou art my suitable comrade of seven steps;—