b. With thy most kindly arrow, And kindly bow, With thy kindly missile, Be gentle to us, O Rudra.
c. That body of thine, O Rudra, which is kindly, Not dread, with auspicious look, With that body, most potent to heal, O haunter of the mountains, do thou look on us.
d. The arrow which, O haunter of mountains, In thy hand [1] thou bearest to shoot, That make thou kindly, O guardian of mountains; Harm not the world of men.
e. With kindly utterance thee We address, O liver on the mountains, That all our folk Be free from sickness and of good cheer.
f. The advocate hath spoken in advocacy, The first divine leech, Confounding all the serpents And all sorceries.
g. The dusky, the ruddy, The brown, the auspicious, And the Rudras which in thousands Lie around this (earth) in the quarters [2], Their wrath do we deprecate.
h. He who creepeth away, Blue-necked and ruddy, Him the cowherds have seen, Have seen the bearers of water And him all creatures; May be, seen, be gentle unto us.
i. Homage to the blue-necked, Thousand-eyed one, the bountiful And to those that are his warriors I have paid my homage.
k. Unfasten from the two notches Of thy bow the bowstring, And cast thou down The arrows in thy hand [3]. 1 Unstringing thy bow, Do thou of a thousand eyes and a hundred quivers, Destroying the points of thine arrows, Be gentle and kindly to us.
m. Unstrung is the bow of him of the braided hair And arrowless his quiver; His arrows have departed, Empty is his quiver.
n. O most bountiful one, the missile That is in thy hand, thy bow, With it on all sides do thou guard us, Free from sickness.
o. Homage to thy weapon, Unstrung, dread; And homage to thy two hands, To thy bow.
p. May the missile from thy bow Avoid us on every side, And do thou lay far from us This quiver that is thine.