All our energy has been robbed by Vritra. Be you the protector of us the dwellers of heaven. O God, look upon our bodies mangled and mutilated with the wounds inflicted by the Asura. We seek protection from you; O God of gods, be you our refuge.
तेजो हृतं नो वृत्रेण गतिर्भव दिवौकसाम्। मूर्तीरीक्षस्व नो देव प्रहारैर्जर्जरीकृताः। शरणं त्वां प्रपन्ना स्म गतिर्भव महेश्वर॥