With sacred drops bedewed their king,

The centre of a joyous ring,

The guardians of the worlds, on high,

And all the children of the sky

From herbs wherewith their hands were filled

Rare juices on his brow distilled.

His brows were bound with glistering gold

Which Manu's self had worn of old,

Bright with the flash of many a gem

His sire's ancestral diadem.