On an auspicious lunar day and at an auspicious moment and under the influence of a star presided over by an auspicious deity, that mighty bowman, having been honoured by the Brahmanas and bathed with auspicious and holy substances and also worshipped by all, started, filling with the rattle of his car the three worlds with all mobile and immobile objects.
प्रययौ च महेष्वासो नक्षत्रे शुभदैवते। शुभे तिथौ मुहूर्ते च पूज्यमानो द्विजातिभिः॥ मङ्गलैश्च शुभैः स्नातो वाग्भिश्चापि प्रपूजितः। नादयन् रथघोषेण त्रैलोक्यं सचराचरम्॥