Verse 19

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The one who came down in part· Verses 19–24

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He is the Bhagavan himself, lord of the three, the unmoving self come down in part, in whom men see that the manyness they seem to meet is made by ignorance and means nothing. He guards the circle of the earth from the mountain of sunrise, the one hero, lord of the kings of men. Mounting his conquering chariot with his bow in hand, he will go round from the right, as the sun goes. Kings here and there, and the guardians of the worlds with them, will bring him tribute; and their women, carrying his fame in their mouths, will hold him the first king, the one whose weapon is the discus. This overlord milked the earth as a cow, a lord of creatures making his people a living. In play he broke the hills with the tip of his bow and made the earth level, as Indra did.

When he himself went over the earth twanging his horn bow, not to be withstood in battle, then in every quarter the wicked hid themselves, as beasts do when the lion lifts his tail. He performed a hundred horse sacrifices where the Sarasvati came to light; and at the last of them Indra, breaker of forts, lord of a hundred rites, stole his horse.