No daughter of a mortal dame,

In all the regions failed to see

A bridegroom meet to match with me.

Each way with anxious thought he scanned,

And thus at length the monarch planned:

“The Bride's Election will I hold,

With every rite prescribed of old.”

It pleased King Varuṇ to bestow

Quiver and shafts and heavenly bow

Upon my father's sire who reigned,