He gave his horses food and rest,

Bathed reeking limb and drooping crest.

They drank their fill and bathed them there,

And water for their journey bare.

Thence through a mighty wood he sped

All wild and uninhabited,

As in fair chariot through the skies,

Most fair in shape a Storm-God flies.

At Anśudhána Gangá, hard

To cross, his onward journey barred,