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1. Great (bṛhánt) truth, formidable right, consecration, penance, bráhman, sacrifice sustain the earth; let her for us, mistress of what is and what is to be—let the earth make for us wide room (loká);—

2. Unoppressedness in the midst of men (mānavá). Whose are the ascents (udvát), the advances (pravát), the much plain (samá); who bears the herbs of various virtue (nā́nāvīrya)—let the earth be spread out for us, be prosperous for us.

3. On whom [are] the ocean and the river (síndhu), the waters; on whom food, plowings, came into being; on whom quickens this that breathes, that stirs—let that earth (bhū́mi) set us in first drinking.

4. Whose, the earth's, [are] the four quarters; on whom food, plowings, came into being; who bears manifoldly what breathes, what stirs—let that earth (bhū́mi) set us among kine, also in inexhaustibleness (? ánya).