The rays of S[=u]rya swinging (his banner) have laid darkness like a skin in the waters.
Unconnected, unsupported, downward extending, why does not this (god) fall down?
With what nature goes he, who knows (literally, 'who has seen')?
As a support he touches and guards the vault of the sky" (IV.
13).
There is here, no more than in the early hymn from the first book, translated in the first chapter, any worship of material phenomena.
S[=u]rya is worshipped as Savitar, either expressly so called, or with all the attributes of the spiritual.

The hymn that follows this[19] is a bald imitation.

In V.47 there are more or less certain signs of lateness, _e.g.,_ in the fourth stanza ("four carry him, ...

and ten give the child to drink that he may go," etc.) there is the juggling with unexplained numbers, which is the delight of the later priesthood.

Moreover, this hymn is addressed formally to Mitra-Varuna and Agni, and not to the sun-god, who is mentioned only in metaphor; while the final words _namo dive_, 'obeisance to heaven,' show that the sun is only indirectly addressed.