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[[4-6-7]]<br />
a When first thou didst cry on birth,<br />
Arising from the ocean or the dust,<br />
The wings of the eagle, the limbs of the gazelle,<br />
That is thy famed birth, O steed.<br />
b The steed given by Yama hath Trita yoked,<br />
It Indra first mounted,<br />
The bridle of it the Gandharva grasped;<br />
O Vasus, from the sun ye fashioned the steed.<br />
c Thou art Yama, O steed, thou art Aditya;<br />
Thou art Trita by secret ordinance;<br />
Thou art entirely separated from Soma [1];<br />
Three, they say, are thy bonds in the sky.<br />
d Three, they say, are thy bonds in the sky,<br />
Three in the waters, three within the ocean<br />
And like Varuna to me thou appearest, O steed,<br />
Where, say they, is thy highest birthplace.<br />
e These, O swift one, are thy cleansings,<br />
These the placings down of thy hooves in victory;<br />
Here I have seen thy fair ropes,<br />
Which the guards of holy order guard.<br />
f The self of thee with my mind I perceived from afar,<br />
Flying with wings from below through the sky [2];<br />
Thy head I saw speeding with wings<br />
On paths fair and dustless.<br />
g Here I saw thy highest form,<br />
Eager to win food in the footstep of the cow;<br />
When a mortal man pleaseth thy taste,<br />
Then most greedily dost thou consume the plants.<br />
h Thee follows the chariot, thee the lover, O steed,<br />
Thee the kine, thee the portion of maidens;<br />
Thy friendship the companies have sought;<br />
The gods have imitated thy strength [3].<br />
i Golden his horns, iron his feet;<br />
Swift as thought, Indra was his inferior;<br />
The gods came to eat his oblation<br />
Who first did master the steed.<br />
k Full haunched, of slender middle,<br />
The heroic divine steeds,<br />
Vie together like cranes in rows,<br />
When the horses reach the divine coursing-place<br />
1 Thy body is fain to fly, O steed;<br />
Thy thought is like the blowing wind;<br />
Thy horns are scattered in many places,<br />
They wander busy in the woods.<br />
m To [4] the slaughter the swift steed hath come,<br />
Pondering with pious mind;<br />
The goat, his kin, is led before,<br />
Behind him come the sages to sing.<br />
n To his highest abode hath the steed come,<br />
To his father and his mother;<br />
To-day do thou go, most welcome, to the gods;<br />
Then boons shall he assign to the generous.<br />
Keith: Taittiriya-Samhita, Translation - Page 208 of 341