In the next hymn: "Your clouds (cows) give nourishment, your streams are sweet." Thus the twain keep the order of the seasons (i.2.

7-8) and protect men by the regular return of the rainy season.
Their weapons are always lightning (above, i.152.2, and elsewhere).
A short invocation in a family-book gives this prayer: "O Mitra-Varuna, wet our meadows with _ghee_; wet all places with the sweet drink" (iii.62.

16).
The interpretation given above of the office of Varuna as regards the sun's path, is supported by a verse where is made an allusion to the time "when they release the sun's horses," _i.e_., when after two or three months of rain the sun shines again (v.62.

1).

In another verse one reads: "Ye direct the waters, sustenance of earth and heaven, richly let come your rains" (viii.25.