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i. 31- 4. Well-being (svastí) be to our mother and father, well-being to kine, to creatures (jágat), to men (púruṣa); all welfare [and] beneficence (? suvidátra) be ours; long may we see the sun.

1. Now, ye people, take knowledge; he will speak a great mystery (? bráhman); that is not on earth nor in the sky whereby the plants breathe.

2. In the atmosphere is the station of them, as of those sitting wearied; the station of this that exists (bhūtá): that the pious know—or they do not.

3. What the (two) quaking firmaments (ródasī)—and the earth—fashioned out, that at present is always wet, like the streams of the ocean.

In b the translation implies emendation to átakṣatām, as favored by the Ppp. reading nara-cakṣatām; there remains the anomaly of letting the verb agree with ródasī