Kāṇḍa 1

1.1.1 May the divine Waters be auspicious to us for our succour, auspicious for us to drink; may they flow about us bringing well-being and ease.

1.1.2 O Waters, fill me full of healing medicine, a shelter for my body; and may I long behold the sun.

1.1.3 Soma declared to me that within the Waters are all remedies, and Agni who brings well-being to all.

1.1.4 Ruling over precious things, dwelling among the peoples — from the Waters I beg healing medicine.

1.2.1 The mothers — kinswomen who minister at the sacrifice — travel along their paths, mingling the milk with honey.

1.2.2 Those yonder that are near the sun, and those with whom the sun moves together — may they speed our sacrifice.

1.2.3 I call upon the divine Waters where our cows drink; an oblation is to be made to the rivers.

1.2.4 Within the Waters is immortality, within the Waters is medicine; and in the praises of the Waters, O horses, you become vigorous steeds.

1.3.1 We know the father of the arrow — Parjanya, of many sustaining powers; we know indeed its mother — Pṛthivī, sustainer of all.

1.3.2 Homage around us to the bowstring; may our body become stone-hard. O plant, grow mightier — drive away hostilities, sweep off malevolences.

1.3.3 When the cows, embracing the tree, do reverence to the quiverless, unquivering, skillfully-wrought arrow — drive the shooting shaft away from us, O Indra; may these herbs be auspicious to us.

1.3.4 May Indra's vajra smite away the demon; may the arrows shot from afar fly away from us.

1.4.1 We know your father, O arrow — Parjanya, rich in seed. By him I make wholeness for your body; may your discharge flow upon the earth; let what is bāl go outside.

1.4.2 By Indra, by Varuṇa, by Candra, and by Sūrya as well [is this healing accomplished].

1.4.3 Whatever has collected in the intestines, in the two flanks, whatever has gathered in the bladder — [may it flow out] (remainder lost).

1.4.4 I burst open your urinary passage, the obstruction, as [one opens] a channel. By that I make wholeness for your body; may your discharge flow upon the earth; let what is bāl go outside.

1.4.5 As an arrow flies away, released from the bow, so may your urine be released — outward, all of it, bāl.

1.5.1 Vaṣaṭ! O Pūṣan, may Aryamā — the skilled hotṛ, the Disposer — fashion a fine recitation for her. May the birth-giver flow forth; may the joints open wide for her giving birth.

1.5.2 The four directions and four quarter-directions, and those of the earth as well — the gods have brought the embryo together; may those very ones open it wide for her to give birth.

1.5.3 May she who is prepared open wide; we loosen the womb. Relax [it], O Sūṣaṇa; and you, O Viṣkala, let [the child] go free.

1.5.4 Not in the sinews, not in the joints, not in the hair, not in the nails — may the variegated membrane fall away, for a dog to devour the afterbirth.

1.5.5 Not in the flesh, not in the fat, not clinging to anything whatsoever — may the afterbirth fall down.

1.6.1 Those three-times-seven who go about bearing all forms — may Vācaspati place their strengths into my body today.

1.6.2 Come near to us, O Vācaspati, together with the divine mind. O lord of the breath-utterance, make it rest within me; within me alone — my body.

1.6.3 Stretch forth here in both directions, as two bow-tips by the bowstring. May Vācaspati hold [them] fast within me; within me alone — my body.

1.6.4 Vācaspati is invoked; I, the devotee of Vācaspati, am invoked. May I succeed together with my renown; may I not fail through my renown.

1.7.1 The divine Gandharva who is lord of the world, worthy of praise among the peoples with obeisance by the single-lived — thee, that one, I hymn with sacred utterance, O divine god; homage be to thee; thy dwelling-place is in the sky.

1.7.2 Touched by heaven, adorable, with skin of sunlight, he has driven off the fury of the divine wrath; gracious with obeisance by the single-lived — may the Gandharva, who is lord of the world, show favour.

1.7.3 The Gandharva too has indeed come together with these blameless Apsarases; they say their dwelling is the ocean, whence they go hither and thither at once.

1.7.4 O lightning-flash of the clouds, O star-born ones, you who attend upon the Gandharva Viśvāvasu — to those of you, O goddesses, I make obeisance.

1.7.5 Those who are weepers, dwellers in darkness, eager for dice-play, bewitchers of the mind — to those Apsarases, wives of the Gandharvas, I have paid homage.

1.8.1 From yonder mountain thou art drawn forth as a healing remedy; a remedy, an excellent remedy — whatever remedy I make of thee.

1.8.2 Indeed, indeed — the hundred remedies that are thine, and the thousand that are thine: of those thou art the highest, free from leaking away, free from disease.

1.8.3 This great red-blooded one has been lifted up from the earth; that is the remedy against discharge, and it has indeed destroyed disease.

1.8.4 The field-crickets carry up the remedy from the ocean; thou art the Atharvaṇa remedy for the wound, thou art the Atharvaṇa seat-of-disease.

1.9.1 This one is the Asura of the gods who rules on high — for the command of King Varuṇa is true; conquering over and beyond that with sacred utterance, I lead this man up out of the fierce wrath.

1.9.2 Homage to thee, O King Varuṇa, to thy wrath — for thou, O god, dost mark all transgression; a hundred, a thousand others I drive away; let this man of ours live to see out the years.

1.9.3 Whatever untruth thou hast spoken with thy tongue, much that is crooked — I release thee from Varuṇa, the king whose ordinance is truth.

1.9.4 I have released thee from Vaiśvānara, from beyond the great ocean-floods; speak forth, O fierce one, to thy kinsmen; fashion the sacred utterance and do homage for us.

1.10.1 Varuṇa has spoken in favor of lead; Agni attends upon lead. Indra bestowed lead upon me as a dispeller of disease.

1.10.2 This overpowers viṣkandha; this drives back those who devour. By means of this I shall overpower all things that are born of the piśācī-demon.

1.10.3 Those who arose at the new-moon night gleaming — the devourers: Agni is the fourth one, the slayer of sorcerers; may he protect us from them.

1.10.4 Whether you strike a horse, whether a cow, whether a man — we pierce you with lead, so that you shall be devoid of heroes against us.

1.11.1 With the all-encompassing amulet by which Indra has encompassed himself — with that, O Bṛhaspati, make this one revolve toward the kingdom.

1.11.2 Encompassed are the rivals, encompassed are those who are hostile to us; stand over the one who wars against us, over the one who does harm to us.

1.11.3 The god Savitṛ has encompassed you; Soma has encompassed you; all beings have encompassed you, so that you are the all-encompassing one.

1.11.4 That sun has risen; risen too is my word: that I shall be a slayer of enemies, without rivals, a killer of rivals.

1.11.5 A bull who annihilates rivals, who overpowers the kingdom, who overcomes all — that I may shine supreme over these heroes and over the people.

1.12.1 May this one grow old unto you alone, O Old Age; let not the other deaths harm him except you. As a mother with full love holds a son in her lap, may Mitra protect him from distress through friendship.

1.12.2 May Mitra and Varuṇa, devouring foes in accord, make for you death-by-old-age. That Agni, the invoking priest, knowing the ordinances, the god who is the generator of all, shall proclaim all things.

1.12.3 Heaven is your father, Earth is your mother — let them make for you old-age-death and long life, so that you may live a hundred winters in the lap of Aditi, guarded by in-breath and out-breath.

1.12.4 You rule over earthly cattle — those already born and those yet to be born. Let not the in-breath abandon him, nor the out-breath; let not friends slay him, nor enemies.

1.13.1 Given by Indra, directed by Varuṇa, fierce and set in motion by the Maruts, he has come to us. This one I deliver into your two hands, O Heaven-and-Earth — may he neither thirst nor hunger.

1.13.2 Grant him vital nourishment, O nourishment-rich one; grant him milk, O milk-rich one. Let Heaven-and-Earth bestow vital nourishment upon him; let all the gods, the Maruts, and the Waters bestow vital nourishment.

1.13.3 May the auspicious ones satisfy his heart; free from disease, let him move about here rejoicing. May the two Aśvins, assuming a form by their magic power, together clothed, drink this mixed drink.

1.13.4 May the purifying draught attend his drinking; may vital nourishment and self-sustaining power attend him — this is she. Indra, struck first, released her — she is that vital nourishment and ageless self-sustaining power for you. By her may you live through autumns radiant with vigor; may it not flow away from you — the healers have made it fast for you.

1.14.1 O All-Gods, protect this man; and you Ādityas, be wakeful over him. Let not a rival, nor one of different lineage reach him; let not the man-slaying blow reach him.

1.14.2 You who are gods, and those who are fathers and those who are sons — of one mind, hear this utterance of mine. I deliver this man over to all of you; may you lead him in well-being to old age.

1.14.3 You gods who dwell in heaven, who are on earth, who are in the atmosphere, in the plants, in the waters — make long life and old age his lot; ward off a hundred other deaths from him.

1.14.4 Those gods for whom there are fore-offerings and after-offerings, who have shares in the oblation poured and unpoured, for whom the five directions are apportioned among you — those who sit at the sacrificial session, I make them into protectors for this man.

1.15.1 I take hold of your good fortune, as a garland upon the head. Like a mountain with a great root, may you long sit among your fathers.

1.15.2 O Yama, king, this maiden is shaken loose as a bride for you. Let her be bound in the house of her mother, and also of her brother, and also of her father.

1.15.3 O king, this one is your guardian of emblems; we deliver this one over to you. May she long sit among the fathers; may it reach fully to the crown of her head.

1.15.4 By the sacred power of Asita, of Kaśyapa, and of Gaya — like female kin binding an inner treasure-sack, I bind up your good fortune.

1.16.1 You are born of the night, O herb — in the dark, in the black, in the deep-dark. O Rājanī, stain and color away this leprosy (kilāsa) and this greyness (palita).

1.16.2 Both the white-spot disease (kilāsa) and the greyness (palita) — drive them out and destroy them from here, O speckled one. Let your own (natural) color restore itself to you; expel the white patches far away.

1.16.3 Dark (asita) is your place of dissolution, dark (asita) is your abode. You are the dark-herb (asiknī), O plant — drive out and destroy this from here, O speckled one.

1.16.4 The white mark (śveta lakṣma) upon the skin — whether of leprosy (kilāsa) born from the bones, or born of the body — though wrought by a curse (brahmaṇā dūṣā), I have destroyed it utterly.

1.17.1 The first-born of the womb, the bull of the dawn-rays (usriya), the cloud-born, goes forth thundering with rain. May he, who moves straight and pierces, whose single vital power (ojas) he has spread threefold, be merciful to our bodies.

1.17.2 He who has lodged himself with blazing flame in every limb, who seized it — the one who seized the joints is also seized. I worship with oblation (havis) the joints and the inter-joints; him who abides in the heart and was born through the mind I worship.

1.17.3 I release him from headache and likewise from cough — him who has entered joint by joint. That (affliction) which is cloud-born, which is wind-born, and that parching fever (śuṣma) — let them attend to the forest trees and the mountains.

1.17.4 Auspicious (śam) be it for your upper limb, auspicious be it for your lower limb; auspicious be it for your back and your marrows — auspicious be it for your body.

1.18.1 May Mitra come near, ordering himself by the seasons, settling the earth with the dawn-cows (usriyā). May Varuṇa, Vāyu, and Agni bestow upon us that great kingdom (bṛhad rāṣṭra) worthy of being established.

1.18.2 May Dhātṛ, Mitra, Varuṇa, divine Agni, Indra, and Tvaṣṭṛ accept my words. I call upon the goddess Aditi, mother of heroes — may I stand foremost among those born of the same kind (sajāta).

1.18.3 With reverences I call upon Soma and Savitṛ, (and) all the gods, for my own supremacy (uttaratva). This Agni blazes on throughout the day, kindled by the companions of the same birth (sajāta) who do not contradict.

1.18.4 Remain here; do not go forward. Ārya, the herdsman and lord of prosperity (puṣṭapati), has driven you (here). Toward him, O desiring-women (kāminī), for his desire — may all the gods bring you (wives) together, here, under the sky.

1.19.1 May the Vasus establish wealth in this one — Indra, Tvaṣṭṛ, Varuṇa, Mitra, Agni; may the Ādityas and all the gods sustain him in the highest divine light.

1.19.2 For him let the gods grant splendor in the quarters — the sun, fire, and gold; shine forth with the superior brahman-power, making rivals lower than yourself.

1.19.3 O Jātavedas, by the same superior brahman-power with which you gathered the vital essences for Indra — by that, O Agni, increase this man here; bestow upon him the fullness of riches and sovereignty.

1.19.4 I carry off the sacrifice and the vigor of these foes, O Agni — the fullness of riches and their possessions; let the rivals be lower than us; O gods, establish this man in the highest light.

1.20.1 Let not the piercers find us, let not the smiting archers find us; O Indra, strike far from us the scattering volleys of arrows.

1.20.2 Let the arrows shot from all directions fall away from us — those discharged and those yet to be discharged; may gods, mortals, and seers pierce our enemies.

1.20.3 The enemy, whether known to us or unknown, who seeks to slay us — may Rudra with his arrows pierce those foes of ours.

1.20.4 Whether kinsman or stranger who plots harm against us, O Indra — let all the gods shatter him; the sacred formula is my innermost armor.

1.21.1 Not yet perished, falling away of themselves, more unreal than unreal things — more sapless than the sehora plant, more withered than salt: [thus depart, O apacit growths].

1.21.2 Fall away, O apacit growths, as a bird flies from its nest; may the Sun make the remedy, and may the Moon drive you away.

1.21.3 One is spotted, one is tawny, one is black, two are ruddy — I have seized the name of all of them; O ones that slay no hero, depart.

1.21.4 The unborn, the dark wanderer — the apacit will fly away; the glaur will fly away from here; that which dissolves shall perish.

1.21.5 Depart, O female apacit growths — Indra and Pūṣan have perceived you; depart from his neck, depart from his feet, O ones who estrange kinsmen.

1.22.1 To the four immortal Guardians of the Quarters (āśāpāla), the overseers of all beings — we would do honour with oblation.

1.22.2 Ye four divine Guardians of the Quarters who stand as sentinels — may they release us from the nooses of Nirṛti, from sin upon sin.

1.22.3 Thee who art without blemish I would honour with oblation; thee who art without wound I offer ghee. May the fourth divine Guardian of the Quarters bring great prosperity hither to us.

1.22.4 May there be welfare for our mother and likewise for our father; welfare for the cattle and for men. May all be of good being and well disposed toward us; may we look upon the sun for a long time.

1.23.1 O people, at the assembly a great brahman shall be proclaimed — one that is neither upon the earth nor in heaven, from which the plants draw breath.

1.23.2 Its abode is in the atmosphere, like the resting place of those who have grown weary. Wise and creative men know that as the foundation of this being.

1.23.3 When the two quivering worlds and the earth were fashioned — that [cosmic principle] is moist even today and always, revolving like the rim of a wheel about to split.

1.23.4 One [sphere] has enveloped the all; upon the other the all rests. To Heaven, omniscient, and to Earth I have made obeisance.

1.24.1 Let the rivers flow together; let the divine winds also flow together. With all those confluent streams I cause wealth to flow hither to me.

1.24.2 The confluences that flow together — of milk and of water — with all those confluent streams I cause wealth to flow hither to me.

1.24.3 The springs that flow together out of the rivers, ever perennial and unfailing — with all those confluent streams I cause wealth to flow hither to me.

1.24.4 Come hither, ye bearers of oblation; come hither, ye confluent ones as well. May every head of cattle come here; increase the riches of this man.

1.25.1 Golden-hued, pure, purifying — those waters in which Kaśyapa was born, in which Indra was born; those golden ones that held Agni as an embryo — may those waters be auspicious and gentle to us.

1.25.2 Those waters through whose midst King Varuṇa moves, beholding the truth and falsehood of men — [the remainder of the verse is not preserved in this recension].

1.25.3 Those waters of which the gods in heaven partake as their drink, which become manifold in the atmosphere; those golden ones that held Agni as an embryo — [the remainder is not preserved in this recension].

1.25.4 O waters, look upon me with a benign eye; touch my skin with your benign body. Those that drip with clarified butter, pure, purifying — may those waters be auspicious and gentle to us.

1.26.1 When the Suparṇa-bird was first born, you were its bile. That which the Āsurī-woman, having conquered it in battle, fashioned into a form — she fashioned it among the forest-trees.

1.26.2 The Āsurī-woman was the first to prepare this remedy for leucoderma, this destroyer of leucoderma. She made the leucoderma vanish; she rendered the skin of uniform color.

1.26.3 Sarūpā is the name of your mother, Sarūpa is the name of your father. You, O herb, are a maker of uniform color — make this person of uniform color.

1.26.4 Whatever variegated leucoderma has arisen from the body, whatever has arisen from Agni — may that become healthy skin on the body, since we are removing it from you.

1.26.5 The dark herb that makes uniform color, uplifted from the earth — accomplish this very task now; restore the proper hues again.

1.27.1 May Soma and Savitṛ grant us freedom from fear; may both Heaven and Earth grant us freedom from fear. May the sky and the atmosphere be without fear for us; through the oblation of the Seven Seers may there be freedom from fear for us.

1.27.2 May Heaven and Earth be without fear for us here; O Agni, burn back the foes facing us. May they not find our kinsman, may they not find our stronghold; wounding one another, may they go to death.

1.27.3 Five gods are lords of freedom from fear: Indra, Tvaṣṭṛ, Varuṇa, Mitra, and Agni. May no calamity, no sin come near this village; may the wrath of the kings pass elsewhere.

1.27.4 May Savitṛ bestow upon this village from all four directions vigor and good prosperity. May Indra render it free of enemies and free from fear; may we be among the well-doing folk in the midst of the community.

1.28.1 Let your heart-glow and your jaundice rise up following the sun. With the colour of the red cow we envelop you round about.

1.28.2 With red colours we envelop you round about for long life, so that you may be free of disease — be free of jaundice!

1.28.3 The red cows that belong to the gods, and those that are red — with form upon form, with life-force upon life-force, with these we envelop you round about.

1.28.4 Into parrots we transfer your jaundice; into the yellow-plumed birds we transfer it; and likewise into the turmeric-yellow plants we deposit your jaundice.

1.29.1 Those who roam about in front, below the sun and below the sky — this troop of Apsarases we address with the sacred formula.

1.29.2 Those who roam about below, with twisted faces, raving in their deeds — beaten off, let them vanish from here, those who pick up things from this place.

1.29.3 Those who haunt streams, those who haunt forests, and those who indeed drive men to madness — all of them I grind away like barley in a mill with a grinding stone.

1.29.4 To the conscious Aśmalā, to Palā — homage to your flame! Lay the disease down far away from upon this our man.

1.30.1 Desire came into being at the beginning; that was the first seed of the mind. O Desire, of the same womb as great Desire, grant abundance of wealth to the sacrificer.

1.30.2 You, O Desire, are established by force, all-pervading, radiant, a good friend to the one who seeks friendship. You are fierce, ever conquering in battles — grant might and vigour to the sacrificer.

1.30.3 For the one who desires from afar, for the one who drinks deeply without diminishment — the directions hearkened to him; through Desire they generated the heavenly light.

1.30.4 By Desire, let Desire come to me, from heart to heart. That yonder mind of those ones — let it come here to me.

1.30.5 O Desire, desiring as we do, this oblation we make for you — let all of that succeed for us! And partake of this oblation — svāhā!

1.30.6 Who gave this? To whom was it given? Desire gave it to Desire. Desire is the giver, Desire is the receiver; Desire has entered the ocean. With Desire I receive you — this is your Desire.

1.31.1 O kuṣṭha plant, bring this man of mine back to me, draw him forth; make him free of disease for me.

1.31.2 Born in the north from the Himālaya, thou art conveyed to the people of the east; there the most excellent names of kuṣṭha have been distributed abroad.

1.31.3 Uttama ('the highest') is thy name, Uttama is the name of thy father; from whence thou art born, O kuṣṭha, from thence come hither for the sake of unimpaired well-being.

1.31.4 The shattering of the head, the stroke upon the body, the blemish of the eyes — may kuṣṭha protect us on all sides, and together establish divine virile strength.

1.32.1 Where Agni, having entered the waters, burned them, where the upholders of sacred ordinance performed their obeisances — there, they say, is thy highest birthplace; O takman, knowing us, ward us about and spare us.

1.32.2 Whether thou art grief, or intense burning grief, or the breath of Rudra, or art of Varuṇa's nature — Huḍu is thy name, O god of the yellow one; O takman, knowing us, ward us about and spare us.

1.32.3 Whether thou art flame, or whether thou art smoke, or whether thy origin be among the śakalyas — Huḍu is thy name, O god of the yellow one; O takman, knowing us, ward us about and spare us.

1.32.4 Homage to the cold takman, homage to the burning one — thus we make obeisance to thee; to him who comes on alternate days, on both days, let there be homage to the tertian takman.

1.32.5 The tertian, the non-tertian, the quotidian, and likewise the annual — the all-autumnal takman, the summer fever and the rainy-season fever — destroy them all.

1.33.1 Today I have moved along with the waters; we have mingled together with their sap. O Agni, full of milk I have come; unite me with that radiant energy.

1.33.2 O Agni, unite me with radiant energy and make me abundant with offspring; may the gods take note of this for me, may Indra know it together with the seers.

1.33.3 O waters, carry away from here whatever blame and impurity there may be, whatever untruth one has committed in deceit, and whatever shameful thing one has uttered in a curse.

1.33.4 O waters, look upon me with a benevolent eye; touch my skin with your benevolent body. We invoke the auspicious fires that dwell in the waters; O goddesses, bestow sovereignty and radiance upon me.

1.33.5 Whatever illicit union one may have committed in the night, or whatever ancient sin of treachery — may the golden-hued waters purify me therefrom; let them release me, let them free me from the noose of Varuṇa.

1.36.1 Those that move from the east, or from the west — the perpetually following ones — let them go and strike upon the stone, this one here in the sweet that is not to be eaten.

1.36.2 Those that move from below, or from the north — the perpetually following ones — let them go and strike upon the stone, this one here in the sweet that is not to be eaten.

1.36.3 Those that move from the west, or from the east — the perpetually following ones — let them go and strike upon the stone, this one here in the sweet that is not to be eaten.

1.36.4 Those that move from the north, or from below — the perpetually following ones — let them go and strike upon the stone, this one here in the sweet that is not to be eaten.

1.37.1 Both kinds of arrows that come — I have turned them away from you. Some were shot by the gods, many others; and yet others toward heaven.

1.37.2 Homage to you, O Rudra, to what comes forth from your mouth; homage to those arrows that are aimed; homage to those being released; homage to those that have fallen.

1.37.3 My shining golden armors — six thousands and six hundreds — with these we wrap ourselves around; let them protect us on all sides. There is much else here deployed — pierce through the desire of that one.

1.37.4 My iron enclosure, made great out of fear of you, worthy of homage with homage — with it we wrap ourselves around; let it protect us on all sides. [...]

1.37.5 I make for myself armor of iron; I make the door of iron; I make the bolts of iron — let these protect us on all sides. There is much else here deployed — pierce through the desire of that one.

1.38.1 Of these three earths, the earth is indeed the highest among them. Upon the skin of these I have gathered together the healing herb.

1.38.2 You are the most excellent of climbing plants, the most splendid of remedies — as sacrifice is among the Bhagas, as Varuṇa is among the divine guardians of the watches.

1.38.3 Prosperous, not to be assailed, ever striving — you do succeed. You are these that cause the hair to grow; you are also those that make the hair firm.

1.38.4 Make firm the root, draw out the tip, regulate the middle, O herb. You are the Ātharvaṇic hair-grower; you are the Ātharvaṇic hair-strengthener.

1.39.1 O Agni, come to us with cattle; O Indu, be joined to us with wealth — Indra is the sustainer in our homes.

1.39.2 May Savitā, he who is thousandfold, rejoice in our homes — let abundance come, let riches come.

1.39.3 May Tvaṣṭā, that young bull, exult in our homes — with a thousand and with a hundred.

1.39.4 May Dhātā, the lord, the master of the universe, bestow wealth upon us — may he grant it to us in full measure.

1.40.1 Both Mitra and Varuṇa are under my sway; both Indra and Bṛhaspati are under my sway; Tvaṣṭā and Pūṣan, and Savitā himself — all are in my power.

1.40.2 Viṣṇu and Soma are mine; the Maruts too have become mine; Sarasvan and Bhaga, and all the gods are under my sway.

1.40.3 Both heaven and earth are mine; the atmosphere and the sun are mine; all these herbs are mine, all waters are under my sway.

1.40.4 The cattle are mine, the horses are mine, the goats and the sheep are mine; men too have become mine — all this that has a self, that stirs and breathes, is under my sway.

1.41.1 O Agni Abhyāvartin, turn back to us — with long life, with vital radiance, with gain, with wisdom, with offspring, with wealth.

1.41.2 O Agni Jātavedas, may your turnings be a hundred, your approachings a thousand — then, as lord of abundance, bestow wealth upon us once more.

1.41.3 Turn back together with wealth, O Agni; swell with a stream nourishing all — from every direction, encompassing all.

1.41.4 Turn back again with vital strength; O Agni, turn back with the full span of life — protect us once more from distress.

1.42.1 Those armies that press forward fiercely, those that shoot all around, the violent hordes as well — the thief and the robber likewise — these I deliver into your mouth, O Agni.

1.42.2 With your jaws, O Agni, crush the brigands; with your fangs, the robbers as well; with your two jawbones, the thieves, O bountiful one — devour them, well-consumed.

1.42.3 Those brigands and thieves in the villages, the robbers in the forest, those who contrive evil in the thickets — these I deliver into your mouth, O Agni.

1.42.4 Whoever acts with hostility toward us, and whatever person hates us — those enemies who devour the raw flesh and feed on carrion — burn them up utterly, O Agni.

1.43.1 Make him cry out, O lord of wealth; torment him and drive him back from that place. Turn him around, bring him back here — just as I desire, so make it be.

1.43.2 Run around, go in circles — and having circled, bring him back here again. Furthermore, let Indra and Agni bring that one back to me here.

1.43.3 The single Arka plant — for the single desire for which you are dug up — with that all-pervading power of yours, bring that one back to me here.

1.43.4 Wherever that one wanders, the sun shines down upon him from above — from that place, let the prosperous goddess of the road bring that one back to me here.

1.44.1 All the abodes of the venom — of the dark serpent, of the Taimāta snake, of the brown one, of the waterless one — I have quenched them as one quenches fire with water.

1.44.2 O reed-toothed one, hard to grasp — why have you stung my companion? Did you not see me coming, the true poisoner-of-poison?

1.44.3 The venom that you have sprayed with your palatal tooth — the three piercers, we break it: the brown mongoose strikes you from the front.

1.44.4 We three are indeed companions — the brown one, the mongoose, against you. All of them together have brought down the serpent's venom, making it sapless.

1.45.1 The Sārasvata bull, tawny-chested, dreadful in his two forms — O Śītarūra! — the one who strikes every other day, the one who burns perpetually, the tertian: thee I invoke, the one worthy of homage, born together with the gods, born from the waters.

1.45.2 He who, born from the waters, ruddy, tawny, indestructible, causing excitement, entered among humankind — to that Śītarūra, the thirst-inducing one, the head-crusher, the overpowering one, may homage be, O gods.

1.45.3 He who, exciting and gnashing, causing perspiration, irresistible by will, by will thrust forth, afflicts mankind for Śītarūra's sake — may he come to us with mercy, sharpened, knowing full well him whom we hate.

1.45.4 Homage to thee; we know thy descent from Kāsanā — from whatever place thou wast born, O fragrant one. May he not harm us; homage be to thee. Carry us here safely across the disease of head-ailment and consumption.

1.46.1 O King Soma, guard the body of this giver from all sides, as if with armour. He who, pierced, gives wealth to a brahmin — for him, O Soma, extend long life.

1.46.2 O Soma, extend his life long, as the sun extends the days one by one. Destroy the poison of well-flowing and ill-blowing months; let the disease go outward, the shaft depart from us.

1.46.3 Let the gift protect the pierced man against thirst; the gift against hunger — the gift, knowing death. May he who gives be free of viṣkandha disease; the one who has drunk deep is replenished through the sacrificial fee.

1.46.4 May the one who has drunk deep be replenished through the sacrificial fee; guard him from all sides like stitched armour. Let the poison be outside his body; let the shaft fall away, far from us.

1.46.5 Let the brahmin drive the missile-shower away from here, as one steers a boat from the river's bank. Grant long life to him who gives; and may we live here a hundred autumns.

1.46.6 When he gives, when he gives abundantly, when the brahmin receives his wealth — then let the foe know he has been struck down; let all diseases stand away together.

1.47.1 Tiger-formed, fragrant, fashioned from the seed of a lion, established in the middle of the earth — it has beheld the sorceresses utterly.

1.47.2 Go forward, do not falter; seize at the footprint, do not miss the footprint. Right here devour all of them, whatever sorceresses there may be.

1.47.3 The counter-waker, four-eyed, angular, shattering like a stone — drawing the counter-sorceries back, slay that sorcery-maker.

1.47.4 The sorcery-maker, the one armed with a staff, the one possessed of root-magic, the one subject to the curse — may Indra slay them all with the seven-slaying weapon, as though howling wolves.

1.48.1 Of the virulence-stripped scorpion that crawls downward and approaches — I have consumed all its venom; moreover I have silenced it.

1.48.2 There is no potency in your claws, none in your head, nor yet in your middle. What then is this wretched little thing you carry in your tail?

1.48.3 Whatever poison has settled in your shoulders, in the joint-spaces, and whatever is in your feet — we blow that defilement back at you, as one returns a borrowed debt.

1.48.4 The ants devour you; the peahens tear you apart. Declare it well, all of you: the scorpion's venom is rendered powerless!

1.49.1 The winning throw is placed in my right hand; victory is set in my left. May I be a winner of cattle, a winner of horses — one who amasses winnings, a winner of gold.

1.49.2 O dice, give me a fruit-bearing heaven, like a cow rich with milk. Bind me with the stream of the winning throw, as a bow is bound with its sinew.

1.49.3 Both hands of my adversary in dicing we smite with the brahman-power — so that the Kali throw may strike him down; we shall carry off his wealth.

1.49.4 Hither the Bhadra, hither the Dvāpara, and the Tretā — away with the Kali! The winning throw is placed in my hand; for it is the great one that brings good cheer.

1.50.1 Wheresoever you roam to and fro, wheresoever your mind wanders — from that place may the Lord of beings cause you to come back hither again.

1.50.2 May Bhūtapati lead you back; may the god Bṛhaspati lead you back; may all the Ādityas conduct you hither; may the All-Gods, resplendent in glory, bring you back.

1.50.3 May Anumati, may Sarasvatī, may King Bhaga lead him back home. The house — the wife of the heart — may it here and now make his mind settle.

1.50.4 He who once led you away — may that same one lead you back hither again. For the brahmins know the mind; Viśvakarmā, the wise one, knows it.

1.51.1 O Indra, the Gātu stood generating the oblation; O elder foremost, O god, you have come around here. That Gātu, best of paths, pours forth the flood of milk — give it to us, O Indra, O Pracetas.

1.51.2 May Agni go before us straightway; may Bṛhaspati be our ally and companion. I invoke Indra, the slayer of Vṛtra, the breaker of strongholds — may we today, through Bhaga's grace, be endowed with fortune.

1.51.3 You, O Soma, divine and all-seeing of men, look out for us along the path to good cattle. Lead our clan as one who knows the way; come forth to meet our eager speech.

1.51.4 O Agni, do not abandon this shelter, nor this road we have traveled so far. You are the kinsman and father, the guardian of the soma-drinkers; you are the Bhṛmi, the maker of seers among mortals.

1.52.1 Those two that drip and flow from the east, like two cows on their own bull — I make those two mares thinner than a horse's hair.

1.52.2 Those two that drip and flow from below, like two cows on their own bull — I make those two mares thinner than a horse's hair.

1.52.3 Those two that drip and flow from the west, like two cows on their own bull — I make those two mares thinner than a horse's hair.

1.52.4 Those two that drip and flow from the north, like two cows on their own bull — I make those two mares thinner than a horse's hair.

1.53.1 O glorious Agni, increase this man with glory; bring here the Indra-endowed accumulation of wealth. May this head of the assembly, Parameṣṭhin, of brilliant radiance, be the most celebrated among his peers.

1.53.2 Dhātā, Vidhātā, the supreme Saṃdṛk, Prajāpati, Parameṣṭhin, Virāṭ — the stoma-hymns, the meters, the nivid-formulas speak thus to me: let them all bow down together to this man's sovereignty.

1.53.3 Desiring the auspicious, the seers, knowers of the heavenly world, sat down at the beginning in tapas and dīkṣā. From that were born sovereignty, strength, and vital force — may the gods direct all of that toward this man.

1.53.4 Come together, all of you draw near; let this one who perceives be your overlord. Take counsel together with the same sacred formula; henceforth all of you shall live in dependence upon him.

1.54.1 You, O Agni, are our wisdom; you are our father; you are our companion and ally, O Jātavedas. You are the all-knowing, the knower of the way, the seer — may all the quarters be free of fear for us.

1.54.2 This lustre, given by Agni, has come — splendour, glory, vital force, vigour, and strength. May Agni bestow upon me those thirty-three heroic powers.

1.54.3 Place lustre into my body, together with vital force, vigour, and strength. I receive you for the sake of the senses, for action, for heroic power, for a hundred autumns.

1.54.4 You for nourishment, you for strength, you for vital force, you for might — I carry you around for the purpose of overcoming, for the sustaining of the kingdom, for a hundred autumns.

1.54.5 With the seasons and the seasonal rites — you for long life, you for lustre — with the blazing power of the full year we make you firm and compact.

1.55.1 With this unguent I have anointed myself — the mountain unguent that bellows aloud. Let Fortune roar toward me as a bull roars at a lowing cow.

1.55.2 As a neighing horse approaches head-on, so may Fortune come to me. Him I have placed upon my lap with love, as a son upon one's lap.

1.55.3 My eyes are radiant as honey; my tongue is honey-speaking. Upon my nostrils is delight; in my teeth is the honey of the bee.

1.55.4 Honey-sweet is my breath; honey-sweet are my loins. Truly you shall win me, as one wins a honey-laden branch.

1.56.1 Go forth, conquer, O men — fierce be your arms. May Indra grant you shelter, so that you may be invincible.

1.56.2 O Maghavan, let the weapons bristle up; let the spirits of my warriors surge upward. Let the prize-winning powers of the prize-winning steeds surge upward; let the battle-shout of conquering heroes rise on high.

1.56.3 Let the diverse battle-cries and the ululations bearing banners be raised aloft. Let the gods with Indra foremost, the Maruts, march forth with the army.

1.56.4 Released, fly forth, O arrow-volley, sharpened by sacred utterance. Fall upon those who are enemies to victory — let not a single one of these escape.

1.58.1 The sorceries of viṣkandha, of kābava, of kardama, of the owl-demon (ulūkā), of apasthāna — those very sorceries, smite them at the gullet (khṛgala).

1.58.2 Crush forth the traumatic affliction (upahatyā), the kardama, the blue-stemmed ailment (nīlaśākya); then, as one draws out the heartwood of a tree, I make an interval of life.

1.58.3 For what is pierced, for what has been cut down, for the afflicted and for the unafflicted alike — let triparṇī, the universal healer, make this remedy effective.

1.58.4 This is the healing remedy that expels kābava and viṣkandha, that restores proper placement (apasthāpana); I make this medicine so that this man here may be free of disease.

1.59.1 From whichever limb the blood has streamed out, from what has become the dripping gore — let that return to its rightful place, even as cows recognise their calf.

1.59.2 There is no blood in the locust (pataṅga), in the tarda (woodpecker), in gnats and their kind; there is no blood in the reed (veṇu), nor in the pūtudru tree — let there be no swelling (glau) in him, let there be no festering abscess.

1.59.3 I know what you are and how you dwell — indeed you are named gurvikā (the blood-worm). Go you from here to that man yonder whom I hate.

1.59.4 Settle into his very midst; settle among the blue-throated ones (nīlagrīvā, Rudra's creatures). Follow the coursing of the wind, follow the compact of the mosquito.

1.59.5 Let the rootless ones (agruva) go forth from here; let the rootless ones go outward from here — downward, away from here, elsewhere.

1.59.6 I have blown the swelling (glāva) forth; I have blown the swelling out from here — downward, away from here, elsewhere.

1.60.1 I have overpowered you with might, as Indra overpowered the dasyus — O rival-wife (sapatnī), perish hence; go far away from this home.

1.60.2 Verily I have overcome the husband; I shall overcome both fathers-in-law (śvaśura); moreover I shall overcome the rival-wife so that she perishes from this home.

1.60.3 As conqueror (abhibhū) I have come; as Viśvakarman from the great utterance; I who am arranging for the ally's (mitra's) sake in these houses, crossing what is hard to cross.

1.60.4 Arise — this here is mine; nothing whatsoever here belongs to you; he who comes will behold both me and yonder sun in the sky.

1.61.1 The death that had bound you at birth with its fair noose — from that very bond Bṛhaspati has freed you with the hands of Truth.

1.61.2 Old age has been fastened upon you like a bull-calf bound with a rope. Let the other deaths depart — those hundred other ones of which they speak.

1.61.3 Let the in-breath and out-breath enter as two oxen enter the fold. Guide you two — the limbs of this person's body — onward to old age.

1.61.4 Remain here, O in-breath and out-breath; do not abandon this one to death. Let this treasure of old age grow here unharmed.

1.61.5 We wrap you round with old age; we shake you down into old age. May auspicious old age lead you forward. Let the other deaths depart — those hundred other ones of which they speak.

1.62.1 I release you with oblation for life — from unknown wasting-sickness and from royal consumption. If this one has been seized by a grāhī-demon, from that, O Indra and Agni, release him.

1.62.2 Whether his life-span is spent, or whether he has already passed away, or whether he has been led to the very proximity of death — him I bring back from the lap of Nirṛti; I have touched him over for a hundred autumns.

1.62.3 With the thousand-eyed oblation, with the hundred-powered, hundred-life-giving oblation I have brought him here — so that Indra may lead him to old age, beyond the far shore of all hardship.

1.62.4 Live a hundred autumns, growing ever greater; a hundred winters and a hundred springs. Indra and Agni, Savitṛ, Bṛhaspati — with the hundred-life oblation I have brought him here.

1.63.1 O Lord of Existence (Bhuvaspati), whatever food of yours is being consumed along the earth — of that, O Lord of Existence, O Prajāpati, bestow bounty upon us.

1.63.2 Into the gaping mouth of Parameṣṭhin we have crammed him with the sacred formula. The bolt of the Year has struck him down with both its fangs.

1.63.3 May this oblation, this divine and mighty kindling-stick, be his downfall. You are the bond of King Varuṇa — bind that man, son of such-and-such a mother, to day and to night.

1.63.4 You are the crusher, O divine Savitṛ — with the Gāyatrī metre crush that man's livestock, both the two-footed and the four-footed. He who hates us, he whom we hate — smite him, crush him; be not gracious to him; let there be hard going for him.

1.64.1 Let your footstep be set within my footstep; let your thought come to rest, bound fast. May you be wholly mine — I am held in common with you.

1.64.2 By the footstep they track the cow; by the footstep the horse, by the footstep the chariot. By the footstep, O young man, you shall not go away from me, nor I from you.

1.64.3 Do not slip away, do not escape, do not set your mind elsewhere than upon us — you whom we encircle with coils as a serpent, with a mongoose.

1.64.4 I bind you down in the binding-cord, I bind you in the head-ornament, I bind you in the tress of hair. I press you down here into this body-hair; I also rub you into the testicles.

1.65.1 O Earth, fed with ghee — let sins not be proclaimed against us, nor trespasses against our offspring. Free from affliction, of wholesome mind, with good heroes, may we live long in your friendship.

1.65.2 I walk in among the sorcerers; I walk in among the malevolent ones. We fix our thought on the ancestral way; we move along with Sarasvatī.

1.65.3 Let not the digger be harmed, nor him for whom we dig you up. Let neither the two-footed nor the four-footed among ours be harmed, O divine herb.

1.65.4 Let one of you help the other; let each give protection to the other. Having become harmonious and sharing the same vow, protect the vital power of this one.

1.66.1 Stand firm, O guardian of the world; do not shatter, O lord of the forest. Right here may you and we, possessed of good heroes, drive away all hostilities and attacks.

1.66.2 He who became lord over the lords of the forest, in whom all these worlds are fixed — him I anoint with divine honey; from him I have fashioned this amulet of all-forms.

1.66.3 This amulet, all-conquering, endowed with good heroes — I lift it out entirely from this aśvattha tree, whereby I shall win all battles and speak brilliantly in the assembly.

1.66.4 Whether kinsman or no kinsman — whoever assails us against Indra's will, I cut off his root, his offspring, his eye, and his strength.

1.67.1 O divine herb, you were born of the divine one, upon the earth; we dig you up, with your roots spread wide, for the strengthening of [the] hair.

1.67.2 Indra dug you up first, from among the daughters of Varuṇa. Strengthen those already born, bring forth the unborn, and those that have been born—make them yet more vigorous.

1.67.3 Whatever hair of yours has fallen down together with its root, and whatever is being torn out—all of that I sprinkle with this plant of universal healing power.

1.67.4 Let it be immeasurable by the near measure, to be estimated only by the far measure; may the hair grow like a reed all around the crown of your head, dark and thick.

1.68.1 As women crush a reed in a mortar with a stone, so do I crush your testicles; for that purpose I invoke you for aid.

1.68.2 You are the most excellent among plants, O herb, renowned and celebrated; make this man today a eunuch, impotent and devoid of sexual power.

1.68.3 Make him a eunuch, bereft of virility; further, make him one who wears the kurīra [woman's headgear as a mark of emasculation]; may Indra cleave asunder both his testicles with both pressing-stones.

1.68.4 O eunuch, I have made you a eunuch; O castrate, I have made you a castrate; I have made you utterly devoid of semen—you are semen-drained. We place both the kurīra and the kumba [woman's coiffure-ornaments] upon his head.

1.68.5 Those two veins of yours, made by the gods, in which the virile essence resides—those two I split asunder with a pin, upon that one's testicles.

1.69.1 Being born he broke asunder his rivals, those who were bold and fearless; he it is who, as the avālapsya [amulet], destroyed the assembly of rivals.

1.69.2 He puts the foe at a distance and thrusts away ill-fortune; that amulet is avālapsya, mighty, the slayer of enemies.

1.69.3 His eye was the thread [of creation], his ear bore the awl; that amulet is avālapsya, mighty, the slayer of enemies.

1.69.4 This āvālapsya amulet upon which we cause [the wearer] to mount—he indeed takes possession of rivals; may it protect him from all sides; may it lead him to old age.

1.70.1 From that [realm] where the living do not draw near to the pitṛs — [that realm] which the evil deed of the daidhiṣavya has overtaken him — the first who entered, unfit for sacrifice: may he win back the light from that misery.

1.70.2 For him there is nothing in the herbs, nothing within the waters; his eye does not come to meet the sight of the sun; the earth abhors him as he wanders — him whom the evil deed of the daidhiṣavya has overtaken.

1.70.3 The gods wiped this [sin] away onto Trita; Trita wiped it off upon humankind; thence this [sin], propelled by yonder demon, speeds far away beyond the light, set free.

1.70.4 The bonds with which the husband of the didhiṣū was bound, thrust one upon another in limb after limb — may they be cut asunder, for they are severed indeed; O Pūṣan, the sins of the fetus-slayer are wiped away.

1.71.1 May Agni lead your clan hither — Indra, Vāyu, Bṛhaspati; may he establish your dharma, as Dhātṛ did for the worlds.

1.71.2 O Bṛhaspati, go as forerunner of the clans; Agni from behind urges forward those who are approaching; may Vāyu drive them from the right side, and Pūṣan from the north, urging them along.

1.71.3 May our clan come to us thousandfold in [people], hundredfold in chariots, rich in gifts; may Indra [come] with bounty, the lord of the clan Bṛhaspati with splendor.

1.71.4 He who is dear to svarga — [the son] of Kaśyapa — may he be ever wakeful in his own kingdom; the bull of a hundred mothers, undetached from the white [line of descent], may he rouse the gods through sacrifice.

1.72.1 The great men, those foremost who blazed forth in wealth, having joined together in the great double-king [dice game] — among the best of them, he who conquered first: that world of his I would cleave open [for myself].

1.72.2 Your medinas, those vaibhīdaka [dice] — from there, O Indra, come to our aid; grasping [your prize] like a wolf upon a sheep, may you return home victorious.

1.72.3 With arms raised high — winner of gold, winner of cattle, winner of horses in the contest — rise up like a tiger that has made its kill, above the [place of] gambling.

1.72.4 Flow over me in full freshness with the winning cast [kṛta] against my dice-opponent; smite, as a thunderbolt smites a tree, him who plays against us at dice.

1.73.1 From heaven, from earth, from the atmosphere all around, from the lords of the forest, from above the plants — wherever you, O Jātavedas, are borne, from there and there come to us well-pleased.

1.73.2 That greatness of yours which is in the waters, which is in the forests, which is in the plants, which is within the cattle and the waters — O Agni, gather up all those forms; with them come to us, O unceasing bestower of wealth.

1.73.3 That greatness of yours which dwells among the gods as the celestial world, that body of yours which has entered among the Fathers, that nourishment of yours which has spread among humankind — O Agni, with that same [power] establish wealth among us.

1.73.4 To the one of listening ear, to the seer, to the knower, I approach with words and sacred utterances seeking his gift. From whence there is fear — may that be free of fear for us; O Agni, avert the wrath of the gods.

1.74.1 Indra is the foremost among the gods; Varuṇa, firm in his vows; Soma is the mutual protector of the plants and the moving world; Vāyu, the herdsman, is the guardian of cattle and of peoples — let this one be the chief, the vanguard at our head.

1.74.2 Head of heaven, head of the atmosphere, head of the rivers and likewise of the mountains, king and head of the entire world of beings — let this one be the chief, the vanguard at our head.

1.74.3 The sovereign emperor shall smite your foes, King Varuṇa [shall scatter] the enemies in all directions; Indra leads your adversaries to the realm of death — let this one be the chief, the vanguard at our head.

1.74.4 May the peoples, O king, and the divine peoples of the quarters — of keen discernment, of common intention — favor you; illumine all the human quarters with your brilliance — let this one be the chief, the vanguard at our head.

1.75.1 Drive them back, make yourself firm, fortify yourself — may your enemies be beneath your feet. O bull who overwhelms rivals, who conquers peoples, fierce in intent — rule over the five tribes.

1.75.2 May your domain be auspicious and free from disease; stand firm upon the highest vault of heaven. Beholding sons and brothers in great numbers, may all the gods hold you steadfast here.

1.75.3 Tvaṣṭṛ [guard you] through [his creative] form, Savitṛ through his impulse, day through Mitra, night through Varuṇa, Indra through his preeminence and Bṛhaspati through sacred brahman — may Dhātṛ protect you here with [his] wisdoms.

1.75.4 O Vāstoṣpati, grant us shelter here in the thick of the slaying of obstacles, in the assembly of the Vasus; be here indeed as lord of the village, conqueror of peoples, guarded and protected by all the gods.

1.76.1 Rise up! Shoot back against them; O mighty one, draw your fierce bow with force. Strike down the ill-wisher with your blazing flame; O Agni, lay low the maker of sorcery.

1.76.2 Go back against him; shatter him! Piercing him, O Agni, blaze forth all the more. Advance in reverse along his very path, exulting; do not speak favorably upon the maker of sorcerous evil-deed.

1.76.3 He who assails us with ill-will in his heart — whether by the eye, by the mind, or by speech — turning back upon him with your fangs, desiring to overpower him, O Agni, burn out utterly the maker of sorcery, the evil-doer.

1.76.4 O Counter-Watcher, four-eyed, heavenly one — like a stone that shatters the strong — go forth O Agni, crushing enemies; pierce the maker of sorcery, the evil-doer, in his heart, in his vital parts.

1.77.1 O Indra, you were born into sovereignty, into goodly might, O bull of humankind. Thrusting away the hostile man, you made wide space for the gods.

1.77.2 Like a fearsome beast that roams crookedly and dwells on mountains, you have come from afar, from beyond. Sharpening your javelin, O Indra, your keen bolt — strike down the enemies, drive away the battles.

1.77.3 To the Deliverer from distress I bring forth my devotion, seeking good will from the Good Protector. Receive this oblation, O Indra; may the desires of the sacrificer come to fulfillment.

1.77.4 The Deliverer from distress, the bull of the sacrificial lords, the one who blazes foremost at rites — I call upon the Son of the Waters, the two Aśvins, through insight; endow us with heroic strength through your heroic power.

1.78.1 Being mortal, I call upon Dhātṛ, upon Indra, upon Savitṛ for aid — the immortal gods. O Vasus, establish us in the highest domain; may we not fall prey to the enemy, nor to the malevolent one.

1.78.2 Let our divine advocate Indra speak on our behalf; let Savitṛ speak with divine authority. May Mitra and Varuṇa grant welfare; and the gods, night after night and day after day.

1.78.3 May Pṛthivī speak on our behalf, and Dyaus; may the Maruts, sons of Pṛśni, speak for us. He who hates us — whether a stranger or a kinsman — may he be brought low like the felloe of a wheel's nave.

1.78.4 He whom the three — gods, men, and all cattle — follow in their going: may the divine mind speak on our behalf for him; may good guidance lead us; may we not fall prey to the enemy.

1.79.1 Splendorous art thou among the gods, splendorous among the plants. Now make splendorous the one upon whom, O Aśvattha, thou dost climb.

1.79.2 The Aśvattha has ascended over him who is king of the human folk. Like Indra he smites down foes; may the kingship not be dislodged from him.

1.79.3 Āroha by name thou art; thou hast arisen with might. May this man carry thee, O Aśvattha, crusher of rivals.

1.79.4 Thou art king of all beings, the bull, the lord of plants. O Aśvattha, scatter our rivals asunder in all directions.

1.80.1 Looking upon one another they came for immortality, pure ones being born forth from their wombs. Making auspicious augury, smell this one here; place this hero among heroes.

1.80.2 Auspicious for you let this hero be, born here, pure, born forth from the womb. May this one flourish unharmed with a full lifespan; may he make armor against his elders by oblation.

1.80.3 May this living one reach old age and death by gradual measure; let no worm have power over him, nor tooth-decay. Taking hold of life, live the autumns in full splendor; Agni is thy guardian and highest protector, most excellent.

1.80.4 Old-age death, old-age life, old-age sight, old-age horse — I surround thee with the lot of the old-gnawed, for old age.

1.80.5 Heaven is thy father, Earth thy mother, the atmosphere thy self; Wind thy breath, the Sun thy eye, the milk of heaven thy nourishment. May the Suparṇa look down upon thee with favor, for long life and for brilliance; may this hero be the lord of food over food.

1.81.1 The eye of the sacrifice, its inaugural bringing-forth and its mouth — with voice, with hearing, with mind I offer. Let the gods come well-disposed to this sacrifice spread wide by Viśvakarman.

1.81.2 Those who are the seasonal priests of the gods, those who are worthy of worship, to whom the oblation is made as a portioned share — having come to this sacrifice together with their spouses, let all the gods rejoice throughout this spread.

1.81.3 Whatever offered and whatever unoffered came to me, from which I keep my mind from straying on account of food — whatever sin committed in the sight of the gods, let Agni the hotar make that well-offered.

1.81.4 Offered upon the tongue of Agni, desired, approved by the Maruts — I partake of this with the Fathers.

1.82.1 That gold which was born from Agni and holds immortality among mortals — he alone is worthy of it who knows it; he who bears it attains death by old age.

1.82.2 That gold, the good gold, which the progenitive men of old obtained through the sun — with that, gleaming, it unites you with vital lustre; he who bears it becomes rich in long life.

1.82.3 For long life I bind you, for lustre, for vigour, and for strength — so that you, O gold, may shine with your brilliance among the people.

1.82.4 What king Varuṇa knows, what the god Bṛhaspati knows, what Indra the slayer of Vṛtra knows — let that become life-force for you, let that become vital lustre for you.

1.83.1 The gold which the Dākṣāyaṇas bound with goodwill upon Śatānīka — that same I bind upon you for a hundred autumns, so that you may be long-lived and reach old age with teeth intact.

1.83.2 Neither demons nor piśācas can overpower this, for it is the firstborn vigour of the gods; he who wears the Dākṣāyaṇa gold secures long life among the living.

1.83.3 The seed of the waters, the light, the vigour and strength of the forest lords, and their vital powers — as Indra holds his lordly might, so we enclose all this in him; let him, thriving in power, bear the gold.

1.83.4 I fill you, in accord with the seasons' months, with the nourishment of the full year; may Indra and Agni, growing great through the sacred formulation, make you long-lived and supreme.

1.84.1 Whatever of your mind has gone afar to the four cardinal directions — that we bring back to you here, for dwelling, for living.

1.84.2 Whatever of your mind has gone to the four-cornered earth — [that we bring back to you here, for dwelling, for living].

1.84.3 Whatever of your mind has gone to Yama Vaivasvata — [that we bring back to you here, for dwelling, for living].

1.84.4 Whatever of your mind has gone to the billowing ocean — [that we bring back to you here, for dwelling, for living].

1.84.5 Whatever of your mind has gone to the sky and to the earth — [that we bring back to you here, for dwelling, for living].

1.84.6 Whatever of your mind has gone to Vāyu and the mid-region — [that we bring back to you here, for dwelling, for living].

1.84.7 Whatever of your mind has gone to the sun and to the dawn — [that we bring back to you here, for dwelling, for living].

1.84.8 Whatever of your mind has gone to the moon and the stars — [that we bring back to you here, for dwelling, for living].

1.84.9 Whatever of your mind has gone to the waters and the herbs — [that we bring back to you here, for dwelling, for living].

1.84.10 Whatever of your mind has gone to the far-most distance, the remotest beyond — that we bring back to you here, for dwelling, for living.

1.85.1 Him whom the Apsarases seize, whom Bṛhaspati afflicts by churning — him may Savitṛ bring back again by the brahman of Kaśyapa.

1.85.2 He who, having taken on the guise of a beast-carrier, runs about among the wild animals — him may Savitṛ bring back again by the brahman of Kaśyapa.

1.85.3 Savitṛ, Agni, Brahmā, Soma, Indra, Tvaṣṭṛ, Bṛhaspati — these have brought thee back, O Marudyuta, by the brahman.

1.85.4 Auspicious speech and a wholesome eye — these we fashion for Marudyuta; for him indeed I bring this herb, Arundhatī.

1.86.1 To the three Rudras — the eldest, the youngest, and him who is the middlemost — I make oblation as I set forth; the light-makers, the seers, the soma-drinkers — let them drive the Kaṇvās out from here with the weapon.

1.86.2 O Indra and Agni, come to the oblation, in accord with one another — Agni kindled with fuel, Indra kindled with hymns — drive the Kaṇvās and ill-will out from here; burn the demons far away from us.

1.86.3 O Vāstoṣpati, lord of the homestead, [grant us] good offspring and good heroes — I shall live out six hundred autumns; drive the ill-dwelling Kaṇvās away on all sides; enter into us bringing a good abode.

1.86.4 Those [Kaṇvās] that settled on the loom-thread, that sat on the threshing-floor, and those in the cowpen, those born amid the smoke of dung-fire, those in the assembly hall, those born at the watering-place and those among the clefts — these we drive away; may auspiciousness be ours.

1.86.5 Ye two are Dudvā and Dudvatī — that is your name, that is your appellation; sent by Rudra, ye two bear the name Avya — ward off [evil] from around us; him who hates us, do ye strike.

1.86.6 Thou art named Vīcī, named Aghahārā — homage be to thee, O Vātaka; cause the evil to fall elsewhere, away from us.

1.86.7 O Ṛjīta, homage around us — homage around us from the fore; we make our bodies [hard as] stone; today, O Soma, be gracious to us.

1.87.1 Thou art Darbha, the lord of plants; going, thou dost cleave it open as a maiden would; split the head of the worm, [split] the mate of another's worm — split the body and split indeed the bone.

1.87.2 That [worm] which, lodged in the ribs, splits apart the joints, whose discharge stopped up the Uṣṇihā vessels — those were indeed covered over — I will smite you two; go forth and be gone from here; eat the grasses of the weaning-cows [far from here].

1.87.3 This one that lurks within the belly-cavities as the foul, ulcer-less affliction of a mortal — I will smite you two; go forth and be gone from here; O stealthily-creeping pair, your movement I have blocked.

1.87.4 By that very path along which ye two have crept — go forth and be gone from there; O stealthily-creeping pair, your movement I have blocked; enclosing you two all around with the brahman, I will cut you asunder, as the mongoose [cuts] the serpent.

1.88.1 The seers declare the lord of the sacrifice to be guilty of sin — those excluded from their portion, consumed with grief. Inasmuch as he has committed this wrong, being bound by it — from that, O Viśvakarman, release him.

1.88.2 Deeming those who should not have drunk the soma as drinkers, knowing the rite yet not steady at the proper time — the sweet drops which he has withheld: may Viśvakarman unite me with them.

1.88.3 Those who, while consuming, did not prosper the good things — whom the altar fires have burned after — the expiation of theirs for a wrongly performed sacrifice: may Viśvakarman make that a well-performed one.

1.88.4 Awe-inspiring are the seers — homage be to them, for their eye and the insight of their mind. To Bṛhaspati, to the great bull, to Heaven — homage. O Viśvakarman, homage to you; protect us.

1.89.1 All these plants are established upon the earth. Even so, O auspicious one, you were born from the Asuras.

1.89.2 Strike down a hundred of the Apsarases, a hundred of those accompanied by dogs; of the hundred wives of the Gandharvas — Indra has even cut off their heads.

1.89.3 Those who fly ahead of the wind, who fly together with storms — the waking Aśmalā, the Palā: Indra has slain those Apsarases.

1.89.4 We call away your fame, we call away your oblation-rice. Uncover, strip away — strip the disease from us, as the wind strips the seed-bearing plant.

1.90.1 Of the dark abscess, the vidradha, the blood-red one, O lord of the forest; O herb of the visalpaka — do not leave behind even a shred of flesh.

1.90.2 What balāsa stands in the armpit of one standing, removed from the testicles — I know the remedy for that: the cīpadrā plant for beholding it.

1.90.3 The balāsa from the one afflicted with balāsa, the visalpa and also the vidradha — through the counter-strike, we drive your disease away, we press it far off.

1.90.4 The sickness of the head, the sickness of the limbs, the śuktivalga, the blood-red disease — your unknown wasting disease we press downward and away.

1.91.1 Milk-sap among the gods, milk-sap in the herbs, milk-sap in the quarters, milk-sap in the atmosphere — may Dhātṛ and Savitṛ bestow that upon me; may all the gods proclaim it together.

1.91.2 The milk-sap that is in the waters, the milk-sap in the cows, the milk-sap in the springs and likewise in the mountains — may Dhātṛ and Savitṛ bestow that upon me; may all the gods proclaim it together.

1.91.3 The milk-sap that is lodged in the beasts, that which stirs and flies, that which is in the birds — may Dhātṛ and Savitṛ bestow that upon me; may all the gods proclaim it together.

1.91.4 The milk-essences that are set in heaven, those manifold and numerous ones in the atmosphere — the two sovereign mistresses who rule over them: may Dyāvāpṛthivī, free from wrath, bestow them upon us today.

1.92.1 We have come to this all-formed assembly in which of old the one god spoke; may she — the true assembly (samīcī), delighting in our hymns — benevolently choose us.

1.92.2 This divine assembly, all-formed, performing her craft, moves among the peoples; her the kings and the seers purify with understanding in their hearts, and the common folk purify with their words of mouth.

1.92.3 May we sit down together by the assembly-fire, speaking with dear and honeyed speech; may King Soma, may Varuṇa of Mitra's ordinance bend their exertions toward me.

1.92.4 Whatever fierce heat is in your hearts, whatever is in your arms, and whatever is in your eyes — the anger that sits at the tip of the tongue — that we lead away from you.

1.93.1 O Kuṣṭha, you are thrice-born from Vṛtra; three times you were born down from heaven; three times you were born from Soma; three times from the Ādityas.

1.93.2 Life-giving, harmless, victorious, unconquered — you who are lord of the immortal: O king Kuṣṭha, we thus address you.

1.93.3 Between heaven and earth, in this great atmosphere — there the gods bound Kuṣṭha, the lord of the immortal.

1.93.4 You are Kuṣṭha, fashioned by the gods, brought forth from the Himālaya, dug up with sharp spades — you have cut out the virulence of poison.

1.94.1 Those hundred channels of yours, and twenty thousands — with the hair of a brown horse I bind them all closed.

1.94.2 Of your hundred channels, of your thousand, of your ten-thousand — just as a charioteer ties shut the leg of a leather bag, so I bind shut whatever opening there is.

1.94.3 In the farthest distant place, Śuṣka (Dryness) and Bhaṇḍu stand firm. By the drying power of that Dryness, let the bleeding waters stand still.

1.94.4 Around you we press a sand-made plug into the opening. Whatever flowed out before — that this charm has stilled.

1.95.1 O Rudra, may we not offend you through our praise, O Maghavan, nor through our joint invocation. I hear you as the most excellent physician among physicians — rouse up our heroes with your remedies.

1.95.2 O Rudra, that secret name of yours which the addhātayas know — by that auspicious missile of yours, show us mercy, grant us life.

1.95.3 They call you Agni Vaiśvānara; you have gone forth burning the dwellings. Speak over us to the gods — may we who are yours not be harmed.

1.95.4 That missile which flies, launched by the gods, released for its heat or its might — may wise Soma drive it away from us; may the Fathers protect us at the invocations of the gods.

1.96.1 O Jātavedas, grant us the flourishing of wealth, vigour-filled; O Agni, glory filled with truth. We lay down our portion, we press the Soma — O Mighty One, may we serve you through sacrifice.

1.96.2 O Agni, may we be wealthy, adequate for sacrifice and for the sacrificial fee. Let the pressing stone resound over the shoots of the Soma — may we serve Indra with the pressed drop.

1.96.3 We have heard you as the ruler, the vanguard of riches, O Lord of wealth — O Agni, grant me abundant nourishment: rich in cattle, rich in horses, rich in gold, rich in food.

1.96.4 May Heaven and Earth milk out nourishment for me; let no serpent nor water-creature creep upon me. By Prajāpati I fill my body — unharmed is my self.

1.97.1 Attend upon us, O vital breaths, today; let not the vital breaths strike us down before old age. Humbly we hymn thee for thy might — come to us as overlord for a hundred winters.

1.97.2 The white (breath) has gone forth upward; the bright one has gone forth — hear well, O Bhaga, protect me. Today I deliver my self over to the day; may I become one whose vital breath is the sun.

1.97.3 The dark (breath) has gone down; the black one has gone forth — hear well, O Bhaga, protect me. Today I deliver my self over to the night; may I become one whose vital breath is Agni.

1.97.4 Thou art one who has not been harmed; unharmed, may we be unharmed. There where thou, O Prajāpati, dost behold thy creatures three times in a single day — there do thou look upon me as well, O guardian of the world, one whose cattle have not been lost.

1.98.1 As thou causest the deer to be fixed (with longing) and piercest through its hide, so, O potent herb, do thou fix yonder one (with longing) toward me.

1.98.2 A bond and a snare too — sweet is the ointment for the two of us. These two thighs are the twin doors of Bhaga; come (to me) like a deer thirsting (for water).

1.98.3 With a snare I have bound thee about, as (one binds) a great fish with a net, so that thou mayest be in my will, and we two may dwell together in my heart.

1.98.4 I am indeed the superior one over thee; thou art then my foothold. I bind the two of us together with a binding-spell, so that we two may roam about (inseparably) from here to the distance of death.

1.99.1 Driving away ill-dreaming, driving out malevolence, as (the stars) rise — drive away all hereditary disease (kṣetriya) and all the she-demons (yātudhānī).

1.99.2 The two auspicious stars named Vicṛtau have risen; may they loosen asunder the knot of hereditary disease and the knot of the heart as well.

1.99.3 Homage be to the thongs, homage to the shaft-yoke. To the hereditary disease that stands as a wild deer in the forest I have paid homage.

1.99.4 This hereditary affliction of the field belongs to the mole, and to Manu, and to the human. May the mind of every beholder say: 'Let it be here abundantly.'

1.100.1 Rise up, O goddess, O maiden, laden with wealth! The herbs that are of the plains and those of the mountains do not surpass you.

1.100.2 As every person desires you, O divine herb, so bestow upon us the bounty of Bhaga, even as the immortal draught is poured about for the gods.

1.100.3 O herb, you are the one who loosens the bonds of the womb — you are the maker of earrings. Wherever you move, wherever you settle, there I have seized you, as a horse-tether captures a horse.

1.100.4 As a young boy rejoices to greet his mother, so let the woman whom we desire rejoice in greeting us.

1.101.1 Three vessels were the first to exist; truth and existence fashioned them. Upon the measure of ṛta rest those that are immovable — with these do the gods partake of the immortal draught.

1.101.2 When the gods came distributing the heavenly light, three vessels were the first to exist: one the Ādityas claimed, the Vasus a second, and the Rudras took possession of the third.

1.101.3 Dhātṛ knows all these; Savitṛ knows them; Bṛhaspati, the foremost god, and Agni. With these three vessels Indra fills his belly, and likewise all the Viśve Devāḥ.

1.101.4 They stand upright; they do not become crooked; not one among them has become diminished. The vessels of the gods that have been set in place — he who is the guardian of ṛta watches over them all.

1.102.1 The full-moon night was the first among those worthy of sacrifice, surpassing the days and nights in the watches of deep darkness. Those who awaken you, O night worthy of worship, with sacrifices — those, the well-doers who have passed on, reach your vault of heaven.

1.102.2 Full behind and full before, the Paurṇamāsī has risen supreme in the middle. Dwelling together with the gods in her greatness, may we rejoice on the ridge of the vault of heaven with refreshments.

1.102.3 The four quarters and indeed five intermediate directions, the six broad spaces they call the measurers of the atmosphere — the twelve seasons and those that belong to the seasons: may they, the guardians of the universe, cause me to swell with fullness.

1.102.4 As the Ādityas cause the soma-stalk to swell, which the inexhaustible ones drink inexhaustibly, so may Indra, Varuṇa, and Bṛhaspati, the guardians of the universe, cause me to swell with fullness.

1.103.1 Night has come, she who gathers together riches, installing all nourishment and goods. Let us honor the new-moon night with oblation — clothed in vigor, she has come to us with milk.

1.103.2 Let her not burn you before, nor from behind, O resplendent Night. May we prosper — long-lived, with excellent offspring, endowed with good heroes, of fine radiance — in your keeping, O Night.

1.103.3 By the benevolence of that deity, right conduct moves toward the benevolence of householders. May both what nourishes me now and what shall nourish me in future be gathered in — may we abide in the benevolence of the divine Night.

1.103.4 I myself am the new-moon night: the well-doers dwell at home in me. In me all the gods of both orders — the Sādhyas and those led by Indra — have come together.

1.104.1 She who first shone forth became a cow at the twin nights. May she, rich in milk, yield to us each succeeding year.

1.104.2 The Night that approaches as a cow, whom the gods acclaim with joy, who is the spouse of the year — may she be of great good omen to us.

1.104.3 Those who worship you, O Night, as the image of the year — unite their progeny, endowed with long life, with abundance of wealth.

1.104.4 This very one is she who first shone forth; she moves within the waters, having entered into them. A bride, she conquered — young, a mother — three greatnesses attend upon her.

1.105.1 The wooden press-stones have raised their sound, preparing the annual oblation. On the eighth lunar day of the year's turn, O Ekāṣṭakā, may we be endowed with excellent offspring and good heroes, lords of wealth.

1.105.2 O Jātavedas, receive the offerings unto the station of Iḍā, the place that flows with ghee, gliding forward. Of the seven kinds of domestic animals of all forms, may their delight be in me.

1.105.3 With Iḍā I pour oblation, rich in ghee; I worship the gods. May we, free from greed, approach the grinding-stone in the household that is rich in cattle.

1.105.4 Sacrifice to the seasons, to the seasonal rites, to the monthly ones, and to the year. Sacrifice to Dhātṛ and Vidhātṛ, to Samṛdh, to the Lord of all beings.

1.106.1 The year has come, O Ekāṣṭakā, as your lord. To that deity we would do homage with oblation; may he grant us shelter.

1.106.2 With oblation we would honor Ekāṣṭakā who has entered the five seasons one by one; passing from crop to crop — unharmed, may we pass from season to season.

1.106.3 Spring, summer, honey-sweet rains, autumn, winter — may the seasons delight in us. May they grant us a share in cattle and in offspring; may we abide in their good shelter, in their triple refuge.

1.106.4 Ekāṣṭakā, glowing with the heat of austerity, gave birth to the embryo of greatness — Indra. With him the gods overcame enemies; he became the slayer of asuras, the lord of Śacī.

1.106.5 Full ladle, fly forth! Fully full, fly back again! It mingles together all sacrifices — bring us refreshment and strength.

1.106.6 Having brought refreshment and strength to us together with Iḍā and cattle — O Sarasvatī, bestow upon us abundance of wealth.

1.107.1 Now the greatness of the Wind, of the chariot — crashing it comes; thundering is its roar. Touching the sky it makes things ruddy; then it goes, hurling the dust of earth.

1.107.2 The swaths of the wind rush together; they come toward him as women to an assembly. Knowing them, the god moves on the same chariot — the lord, the guardian of all the world.

1.107.3 The soul of the gods, the guardian of the world — this god moves as he wills. Only his roar is heard, not his form; to that god we would do homage with oblation.

1.107.4 Traveling in the atmosphere by his paths, he does not settle in any day whatsoever. The womb of waters, first-born of cosmic order (ṛta) — where indeed was he born, whence did he arise?

1.107.5 O Vāta, flying swiftly through the atmosphere with swift [forces] — all see you with their eyes; not all know you with their mind.

1.107.6 The one that moves in threes, that converges in threes, that is yoked in threes, that makes four into one — that god Mātariśvan the gods of heaven released abroad.

1.108.1 Indra and Agni, Dhātṛ, Savitṛ, Bṛhaspati have put away from me the man-slaying stroke. King Soma, Varuṇa, the two Aśvins, Yama, Pūṣan — may they protect us from death.

1.108.2 Whatever the lord of the world, Prajāpati, Mātariśvan, has fashioned for creatures — the intermediate quarters where one dwells, and the cardinal directions — may those many armors be mine.

1.108.3 What the gods, fighting in the battle of two kings, bound upon their bodies — the armor that Indra made — may that protect us from all sides.

1.108.4 May heaven and earth be armor for me; armor the day; armor the sun. May all the gods make armor for me; may the counter-stroke not reach me.

1.109.1 O Soma and Rudra, tear asunder the widespread disease that has entered our house; drive back enmity and dissolution to the far distance; release even the sin that has been committed from us.

1.109.2 Sharp-weaponed, sharp-bolted, gracious pair — O Soma and Rudra, be well merciful to us here; release us from distress and from blame; guard us with minds well disposed toward us.

1.109.3 O Soma and Rudra, hold fast your divine lordship; having sacrificed to you, may we attain the boon; do you two bestow upon us healing medicines here; grant us conquering gifts, O bulls.

1.109.4 O Soma and Rudra, place all remedies within us, within our bodies; loosen and release whatever sin is bound in the limbs, and whatever has become visible.

1.110.1 The impulse of ghee, together with the gods in union, nourishing throughout the year with oblation — may ear, eye, and breath be uncut for us; may we be uncut of lifespan and radiant vigor.

1.110.2 May breath call to us; we in turn invoke breath; earth has seized luster, the atmosphere luster; Soma and Bṛhaspati are the ordaining dispensers of luster.

1.110.3 Heaven and earth have become the twin repositories of luster; having seized luster, may we travel together along the earth. The cows, approaching with glory, attend the lord of the herd; having seized glory, may we travel together along the earth.

1.110.4 Build the cattle-pen, for he is your protector; stitch many broad coats of armor; make iron fortresses unassailable; let not your cup overflow — make it firm.

1.111.1 The wind blows downward, the sun burns downward; the inviolable cow milks downward — may your venom go downward and be spent.

1.111.2 The cows have settled in the cowpen, the calves at the tether; the waves of rivers have subsided, the vigor of the venom-spent serpents has subsided.

1.111.3 I have indeed grasped together the heads of serpents and their offspring; reaching the thousand-armed pool, I washed out the venom of the serpent.

1.111.4 For the swift and for the slow, for the widely-dwelling peoples as well — I make for you the remedy: the serpent-born poison rendered powerless.

1.112.1 These two thighs of mine, well-clad, I anoint with luster for myself; for I know the secret name of these two as few others know it.

1.112.2 Earth is filled full with luster; heaven is propped up by the sun; the splendor that we behold in the wind — that I direct down into my two thighs.

1.112.3 I know indeed your secret name, O conquering, unconquered pair; I pray for abundant offspring and a realm guarded by Indra.

1.112.4 Knowing your secret name, O Aśvins — sweet as the honey of the bee; like the eye of the sun for all living beings — hold offspring steadfast in me, hold wealth steadfast in me.

1.112.5 I spread out a hundred-snared net across the thighs and across the loins; whoever is bound in that binding — let him be impotent toward me.