Bhashya
एतम् ऋग्वेदम् ऋग्वेदविहितं कर्म पुष्पस्थानीयम् अभ्यतपन् अभितापं कृतवत्य इव एता ऋच कर्माणि प्रयुक्ता ।ऋग्भिर्हि मन्त्रै शस्त्राद्यङ्गभावमुपगतै क्रियमाणं कर्म मधुनिर्वर्तकं रस मुञ्चतीत्युपपद्यते, पुष्पाणीव भ्रमरैराचूष्यमाणानि ।तदेतदाह— तस्य ऋग्वेदस्य अभितप्तस्य ।कोऽसौ रस , य ऋङ्मधुकरभितापनि सृत इत्युच्यते ? यश विश्रुतत्व तेज देहगता दीप्ति इन्द्रिय सामर्थ्योपेतैरिन्द्रियैर्वैकल्य वीर्य सामर्थ्य बलमित्यर्थ , अन्नाद्यम् अन्नं च तदाद्यं चयेनोपयुज्यमानेनाहन्यहनि देवाना स्थिति स्यात् तदन्नाद्यम् एष रस अजायत यागादिलक्षणात्कर्मण ॥
In plain words
They heated this Rigveda and the rituals prescribed by it, treating them like flowers. Just as bees hover over flowers and draw out their nectar, the verses and rituals performed as limbs of the sacrifice yield their essence. The text asks: From this heated Rigveda, what is the honey-essence that emerged? It is glory, radiance, bodily illumination, vital sense-capacity, strength, and food—that daily sustenance by which the divine forces are maintained. This very essence was born from sacrificial action.
Close to the Sanskrit
This Rigveda and the ritual prescribed by the Rigveda, having the status of a flower, they heated intensely like flowers being sucked thoroughly by bees; for a ritual being performed with Rigvedic mantras integrated as limbs yields and releases juice as honey. This is stated: of that heated Rigveda, what is that essence which is spoken of as having emerged from the Rigveda-bee-heating? Glory, celebratedness, radiance, bodily illumination, capacity-endowed senses, defectlessness, vitality, capability, strength—this is the meaning. And food and that which is eaten, by which being partaken day by day the maintenance of the gods might be—that food-essence, this essence was born from action characterized by sacrifice and the like.