When the sun will be in the Northern solstice; this, O Swans. I tell you forsooth. I shall retain my vital breaths loO king anxiously forward for the Northern' solstice.
उदगायन आदित्ये हंसाः सत्यं ब्रवीमि वः॥ धारयिष्याम्यहं प्राणानुत्तरायणकाक्षया।