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:"I, verily, myself announce and utter the word that Gods and men alike shall welcome.
:I make the man I love exceeding mighty, make him a sage, a Rsi, and a Brahman."

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:"When men, Brhaspati!, giving names to objects, sent out Vak's first and earliest utterances
:All that was excellent and spotless, treasured within them, was disclosed through their affection."
:"Where, like men cleansing corn-flour in a cribble, the wise in spirit have created language,
:Friends see and recognize the marks of friendship: their speech retains the blessed sign imprinted."
:"With sacrifice the trace of Vak they followed, and found her harbouring within the Rsis.
:They brought her, dealt her forth in many places: seven singers make her tones resound in concert."
:"One man hath ne'er seen Vak, and yet he seeth: one man hath hearing but hath never heard her.
:But to another hath she shown her beauty as a fond well-dressed woman to her husband."

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:"When, uttering words which no one comprehended, Vak, Queen of Gods, the Gladdener, was seated,
:The heaven's four regions drew forth drink and vigour: now whither hath her noblest portion vanished?"
:"The Deities generated Vak the Goddess, and animals of every figure speak her.
:May she, the Gladdener, yielding food and vigour, the Milch-cow Vak, approach us meetly lauded."

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:"Speech hath been measured out in four divisions, the Brahmans who have understanding know them.
:Three kept in close concealment cause no motion; of speech, men speak only the fourth division."