And going round it, I ascended that excellent car. And the exceedingly generous Matali, expert in horse-flesh, properly drove the horses fleet as the mind or the wind. (And)o king that charioteer, seeing that I was steadily seated in the car in motion, looked at my face and being lost in wonder said, “Today it appears to me highly wonderful and unprecedented,
प्रदक्षिणमुपावृत्य समारोहं रथोत्तमम्। चोदयामास स हयान् मनोमारुतहंसः॥ मातलिहयतत्त्वज्ञो यथावद् भूरिदक्षिण: अवैक्षत च मे वर्क स्थितस्याथ स सारथिः॥ तथा भ्रान्ते रथे राजन् विस्मितश्चेदमब्रवीत्। अत्यद्भुतमिदं त्वद्य विचित्रं प्रतिभाति मे॥