Who loves the right and hates the wrong,

Well skilled in what the law ordains

For Warriors, o'er Videha reigns.

Guiding one morn the plough, his hand

Marked out, for rites the sacred land,

When, as the ploughshare cleft the earth,

Child of the king I leapt to birth.

Then as the ground he smoothed and cleared,

He saw me all with dust besmeared,

And on the new-found babe, amazed