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20. Ye who are Atris, An̄girases, Navagvas, having sacrificed, attached to giving (? rātiṣā́c), bestowers (dádhāna), and who are rich in sacrificial fees, well-doing—do ye revel, sitting on this barhís.

21. So then as our distant Fathers, the ancient ones, O Agni, sharpening the rite: they went to the bright, they shone,* ⌊should be shining⌋, praising with song; splitting the ground, they uncovered the ruddy ones.

22. Of good actions, well-shining, pious, heavenly ones (devá), forging the generations as [smiths forge] metal, brightening Agni, increasing Indra, they have made for us a wide conclave (pariṣád), rich in kine.

23. As herds at food (kṣúm), the formidable one hath looked over ⌊áti⌋ the cattle, the births of the gods, near by; mortals have lamented the urváçīs, unto the increase of the pious, of the next man.

The translation is purely mechanical, and sundry of the words in it are extremely questionable. The verse corresponds to RV. iv. 2. 18, which, however, reads in a kṣumáti as one word (p. kṣu॰máti; our p. kṣúm: áti), makes good meter in b by inserting yát after devā́nām, and reads in c mártānām. SPP. reads, with RV. and with the comm., kṣumáti; this is against nearly all his and our authorities; ⌊they have kṣúm áti⌋; but our O.R. have kṣumáti and Op. has ⌊the impossible⌋ kṣum: áti ⌊with accentless kṣum⌋. The translation implies at the end of b ugrás, which SPP. reads, with about half his authorities and the comm.; of ours, most of the later ones have it also