Patanga Prajapatya speaks on piercing maya, in trishtubh and jagati, in three verses. The wise see with heart and mind the bird anointed by the asura's maya; the seers look within the ocean, and the ordainers seek the footprint of his rays. The bird bears speech in his mind; the gandharva spoke it within the womb; the poets guard that shining, heavenly insight in the seat of rta. I saw the herdsman who never rests, moving near and far on his paths; clothed in gathering and spreading rays, he turns again and again within the worlds. The rishis read the bird as the sun.