Then the highly intelligent Brihaspati and Vashishtha of great energy and all the other foremost of Rishis, going to the God of hundred sacrifices, viz., the boon-giving Vasava, the worshipped of all the worlds, said to him kill forthwith Vritra, O powerful one.
ततो बृहस्पति/मानुपागम्य शतक्रतुम्। वसिष्ठश्च महातेजाः सर्वे च परमर्षयः॥ ते समासाद्य वरदं वासवं लोकपूजितम्। ऊचुरेकाग्रमनसो जहि वृत्रमिति प्रभो॥