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405 1. By whose ⌊du.⌋ force were established the spaces (rájas), who by heroisms are most heroic, most mighty, who by their powers lord it unopposed—to Vishṇu, to Varuṇa hath gone the first invocation.

2. In whose (sing.) direction is whatever shines out here, [whatever] both breathes forth and looks abroad mightily (çácībhis), of old, by the god's ordinance, with powers (sáhas)—to Vishṇu, to Varuṇa hath gone the first invocation.

 

1. Of Vishnu now I would speak forth the heroisms, who traversed (vi-mā) the spaces of the earth, who established the upper station, striding out triply, he the wide-going one.

The verse is RV. i. 154. 1 (also VS. v. 18; TS. i. 2. 13$5$; MS. i. 2. 9, all precisely like RV.), which reads at end of a, in different order, vīryā̀ṇi prá vocam. Prá in our text