Nevertheless, V[=a]ta is worshipped, as is V[=a]yu, with oblations.
HYMN TO WIND (V[=a]ta).
Now V[=a]ta's chariot's greatness! Breaking goes it, And thundering is its noise; to heaven it touches, Goes o'er the earth, cloud[1] making, dust up-rearing; Then rush together all the forms of V[=a]ta; To him they come as women to a meeting.
With them conjoint, on the same chariot going, Is born the god, the king of all creation.
Ne'er sleepeth he when, on his pathway wandering, He goes through air.

The friend is he of waters; First-born and holy,--where was he created, And whence arose he?
Spirit of gods is V[=a]ta, Source of creation, goeth where he listeth; Whose sound is heard, but not his form.

This V[=a]ta Let us with our oblations duly honor.
In times later than the Rig Veda, V[=a]yu interchanges with Indra as representative of the middle sphere; and in the Rig Veda all the hymns of the family books associate him with Indra (vii.

90-92; iv.

47-48).
In the first book he is associated thus in the second hymn; while, ib.
134, he has the only remaining complete hymn, though fragments of songs occasionally are found.