To reap their crops and safely bear them home.

Brave Timma was a stranger 'mongst new men;

The many tigers by his arrows killed

And neighboring clans and lawless robbers kept

In check gave them sure hopes of future peace

And future joy, and straightway they made him

Their king to guard their women and their homes,

While they their avocations of the soil

In peace pursued, and soon was raised a fort;

A stately palace too was reared within