Kāṇḍa 19

19.1.1 Sing at evening, sing the great hymn, sing it brilliantly, O Atharvan. Praise the god Savitṛ.

19.1.2 Praise him, the one within the river, the son of truth, the youthful one — he of guileless speech, of goodly grace.

19.1.3 May that god Savitṛ, lord of good things, press out for us good things — through this good praise may he grant us easy passage.

19.1.4 O priests, press the soma for Indra and run the rite — he who hears the praiser's call, and hears our invocation.

19.1.5 Press the soma for Indra the soma-drinker, the wielder of the vajra — he is the young conqueror, the ruler, much praised by men.

19.1.6 Let the soma drops enter you, O full one, as birds enter a tree — crush and strike down the hostile demons.

19.1.7 Far from us be that bolt, O gods — may it be elsewhere. Far from mortals be the curse.

19.1.8 May our bounty be as a friend; may Indra be our friend, and Savitṛ our friend. May Bhaga, of true law, be our friend.

19.1.9 May the divine goddesses, mistresses of men, attend us with great shelter and aid — they whose wings are uncut.

19.1.10 I implore Agni and Bhava — all protect us, press down the serpent, the disease, and fierce plague. O Aditi, keep divine fear far from us; O Maruts, grant us shelter and heroic strength.

19.1.11 I implore heaven and earth, the mountains, the waters, the sky, the sun, the broad atmosphere, the forest trees, the plants, the cows, and the sacred verses — may the lords of cosmic order be gracious to us.

19.1.12 I call Viṣṇu, Pūṣan, Brahmaṇaspati, Bhaga, the worthy Savitṛ for our aid. May Soma, Varuṇa, Vāyu, Agni, and mighty Bhaga come here to protect us.

19.1.13 May Indra and Pūṣan protect us; may Varuṇa and the Maruts protect us. O Child of the Waters, O seven rivers, protect us — may Viṣṇu protect us, and heaven too.

19.1.14 May heaven and earth protect us for our victory; may the pressing stone protect us, may Soma protect us from distress. May the goddess Sarasvatī, of sweet invocation, protect us; may Agni protect us with his benevolent guardians.

19.1.15 May the two divine Aśvins, of great wonders, protect us; may Dawn and Night keep us safe. O Child of the Waters, of unwavering protection — O god at the summit of all — O Aditi, grant us shelter.

19.2.1 Tvaṣṭṛ, my divine speech, Parjanya, Brahmaṇaspati — may Aditi now protect us with sons and brothers; may she grant strength hard to cross for our rescue.

19.2.2 May Aṃśa, Bhaga, Varuṇa, Mitra, Aryaman, and Aditi protect us from distress. May the unharmed one drive away his enmity, and ward off the enemy near him.

19.2.3 O divine Tvaṣṭṛ, increase us for all wholeness; advance our resolve and our glory together. Protect us, O wide one, ever-vigilant; O Father Heaven, drive away misfortune from here.

19.2.4 Those who afflict our body with words and sorcerous acts, O Soma — cut them down low so that they may wither; may they not see the sun rising.

19.2.5 With your arrows, O Soma, with your bow, with your fist-smiting power do we prevail. Cut down those who have done this wrong — we strike them with staffs and with mighty acts.

19.2.6 May the treader lead them by the footstep; may the ancestors teach them their doom with blows — so that not one of them may live.

19.2.7 By the path by which Soma, Aditi, and the Mitras travel, the guileless ones — by that path be our protector.

19.2.8 He who harms us the well-praised, the ill-praiser, O Soma — strike him in the face with the vajra; crushed, he shall go away.

19.2.9 He who attacks us, O Soma — both the kinsman and the outsider — cut off his strength; like great heaven, smite him with your own killing blow.

19.2.10 O gods, may evil return upon the evil-doer; may guilt recognize him who made the guilt. May the knowing son return to strike the father — and whatever is his own is struck down too.

19.2.11 With what curse he curses, and with what curse we curse him in return — grasping both together, from that near place let them hurl the bolt at him.

19.2.12 The curses that dwell in the earth, those in the broad atmosphere, those in the wind's current — with all of these we roll him over: him who hates us, and him whom we hate.

19.2.13 Those who have crept around us bearing harmful charms — may the god pluck out their root as one pulls up a cucumber vine.

19.2.14 When the evil-placing gods seek to fasten evil upon another — the burden of that evil, hard to bear, shall come back upon its maker.

19.2.15 Let the evil of the evil-placer flow back again, as glory flows; like the great flood of the river Sindhu, let it roll back upon them.

19.3.1 The lightning bolt ever hurled, flying westward, has indeed fallen — may it come back and strike the one who sent it.

19.3.2 The one who ever presses forward against another, smearing arrows with poison — let the arrow strike him back in return.

19.3.3 Whatever you hurl abundantly against the one facing you to drive him away — eat that as poison eats poison.

19.3.4 Homage to you, O Son of the slope, from where you gather heat — be gracious to our bodies; bring well-being to our offspring.

19.3.5 Homage to you, O Son of the slope; homage to your burning bolt. We know your highest abode in the hidden place — you are set within the ocean as the navel.

19.3.6 You whom all the gods begot, fashioning you as an arrow, swift and fierce for casting — praised in our assembly, be gracious to us under the direction of Mitra and Varuṇa.

19.3.7 O Maruts with sun-like skin, O Sons of the slope, grant us shelter, grant us wide protection.

19.3.8 Be gracious, be completely gracious — be gracious to us for the sake of our cows, our offspring, and our bodies.

19.3.9 Homage to you, O lightning; homage to you, O thunder. Homage to you, O hailstone, with which you hurl against the steadfast one.

19.3.10 He who, being no god, attacks us — O Brahmaṇaspati, deliver all of him up to us.

19.3.11 With those powers by which you, O Soma, overcome and subdue the asuras — with those same powers be our protector.

19.3.12 The strengths of the asuras that you, O gods, have chosen for yourselves — with those same strengths speak on our behalf.

19.3.13 O Agni, fed with ghee, lead him upward, to the highest place; unite him with radiance — may he become a sharer in the gods' portion.

19.3.14 O Indra, make him foremost among his kinsmen; may he be the master of his peers. Unite him with the abundance of wealth; make him great through offspring.

19.3.15 He in whose house we make the oblation — him, O Agni, do you increase. May Soma speak on his behalf, and this Brahmaṇaspati too.

19.4.1 We implore Vaiśvānara, the possessor of cosmic order, the lord of the light of truth — the unceasing, blazing heat.

19.4.2 He spread this forth, lifting up the heavenly light of sacrifice; the self-willed one releases the seasons.

19.4.3 Agni in his beloved abodes, the desire of all that has been and all that shall be — the sole sovereign shines resplendent.

19.4.4 As the sun circles the sky, I have come to the birth-place of the serpents; as the night sweeps aside the other world, so ward off this poison.

19.4.5 By what was uttered in ancient times by the brahmin-priests, by the seers, by the gods — by whatever existed and shall come to be — with that I ward off your poison.

19.4.6 The rivers are mingled with honey; the mountains and hills are honey; sweet is the Paruṣṇī, sweet the water-plants — may there be ease for the face, ease for the heart.

19.4.7 As this broad earth has borne the established world, so may your embryo be held firm, to be brought forth for the Vivifier.

19.4.8 [Lacuna] ... may these forest-lords be borne ... [Lacuna].

19.4.9 As this broad earth has borne the mountains and the waters, so may your embryo be held firm, to be brought forth for well-being.

19.4.10 Flowing by day and flowing by night — I, of excellent resolve, call upon you, divine waters, you who flow on.

19.4.11 May the waters, invoked, the active ones, release from here for guidance — may they immediately come to pass.

19.4.12 At the impulsion of the divine Savitṛ, human beings perform their work — may these waters and herbs be propitious to us.

19.4.13 Of your hundred channels and of your thousand veins, those that stand in the middle — together they have come to rest at the extremities.

19.4.14 Around you the sand-made bows stood firm even crosswise; stand still, trembling lightly, be at peace.

19.4.15 Those kinswomen who go yonder, all clad in red — like women without brothers they stand, their splendor struck down.

19.4.16 Stand still, O lower one; stand still, O upper one; and you too stand still, O middle one; may the little finger also stand still; may the great vein stand still.

19.5.1 Homage to the deaths inflicted by gods, homage to the deaths inflicted by kings; and those deaths that belong to the common folk — to them, O Death, I offer you reverence.

19.5.2 Homage to you in your aspect of pronouncing over, homage to you in your aspect of pronouncing away; O Death, homage to your benevolent thought, and to your malevolent thought this homage.

19.5.3 Homage to your sorcerers, homage to your remedies; O Death, homage to your roots, and to the brahmin-priests this homage.

19.5.4 The nine and the ninety that come together towards the neck — may all of them vanish from here, like the growths of the apacit disease.

19.5.5 The seven and the seventy that come together towards the shoulders — may all of them vanish from here, like the growths of the apacit disease.

19.5.6 The five and the fifty that come together towards the throat — may all of them vanish from here, like the growths of the apacit disease.

19.5.7 The devouring one, the non-devouring one — your essence, O fierce devourer; we have eaten your gruel — for you are indeed that one by which you have devoured yourself.

19.5.8 The brown one and the brown-eared one, the blue-eared pot-lady — O Corpse-gazer.

19.5.9 O Tauvilikā, with Avelā — one has devoured, Ailava has devoured; here, accepting your own oblation with mind — svāhā.

19.5.10 Svāhā — with mind I make this offering; into her whose they were I pour it, O terrible one, for the releasing of these bound ones.

19.5.11 People think of you as Earth; I know you all around as Nirṛti, from every side; in truth you are rich in oblations — this is your portion, and through it service is to be rendered to you — svāhā.

19.5.12 So thus, O Nirṛti of all desirable things, release from us your iron bonds; you who are allied with Yama as his twin — the one who hates us and the one we hate, upon him cast all those bonds back.

19.5.13 You are the highest among plants; the trees are your support. May there be support for us against the one who seeks to harm us.

19.5.14 Whether he who seeks to harm us has kinsmen or has no kinsmen — crossing beyond all those with kinsmen, may I become the highest.

19.5.15 Just as Soma is called the highest oblation among plants, so — like you among trees — may I become the highest.

19.6.2 By the word of Indra, of Mitra, and of Varuṇa, and by the word of all the gods, we ward off the disease from you.

19.6.3 Just as Vṛtra held back these waters striving to flow in every direction, so I ward off your disease with Agni Vaiśvānara.

19.6.4 With a firm oblation we anoint the firm Soma; here let Indra make the clans, the tribute-bearing ones, yours alone.

19.6.5 I have brought you here; you have become present within, firm, standing unshaken; may all the clans come to you — let not the kingdom slip away from you.

19.6.6 Be here, do not go away, standing unshaken like a mountain; be firm here, O Indra — hold the kingdom firm here.

19.6.7 Indra made this one firm with a firm oblation; in his favor Soma spoke out, and so did Brahmaṇaspati here.

19.6.8 May the divine Savitṛ hold your realm firm, may divine Bṛhaspati hold it firm; may Indra and Agni hold your realm, the unshaken, firmly in place.

19.6.9 Firm is the sky, firm is the earth, firm are the oceans and the mountains; firm indeed by sacred law, firm — firm is this king of the clans.

19.6.10 The bull of Indra, the bull of the sky, the bull of the earth is this one; bull of all that exists — become the sole bull.

19.6.11 The ocean rules over the flowing waters; Agni is the lord of the earth; the Sun rules over the constellations; you [rule over ...] [Lacuna].

19.6.12 You are the sovereign of the Asuras, the chief among human beings; you are a half-sharer among the gods — become the sole bull.

19.6.13 Indra and Pūṣan have run around the paths of these enemies; may those armies of the foes yonder be confused today and henceforth.

19.6.14 Bewildered, may the foes wander like headless serpents; then, of these whose fire is blocked, let Indra smite the best one after another.

19.6.15 Bind the bull's hide upon these enemies; strike terror as of the antelope into them; may the foe rush away in retreat, and may the cow approach toward us.

19.7.1 O mighty Agni, you yoke all things together for the lord; you are kindled in the seat of refreshment — bring us riches.

19.7.2 Be of one mind, be united, may your minds be in accord; as the gods of old, in concord, attend to their share.

19.7.3 Common is your prayer, common your assembly, common your mind — your thoughts together; with a common oblation I offer for you, that you may be of one accord.

19.7.4 The sun rises across the sky, having mounted all the regions before; Āditya passes over the mountains, seen by all, the destroyer of the unseen evil.

19.7.5 I have brought the herb of Kaṇva, knowing the life-force, renowned, the all-healing plant — quell this person's unseen afflictions.

19.7.6 The cows have settled in the cowpen, the wild beasts have rested; the banners of the people have been furled, the unseen evils have been checked.

19.7.7 You flow forth from the Himālaya and make your way to the Sindhu; those divine waters have surely given me that heart-illumining medicine.

19.7.8 Whatever flashed through the eyes, through the heels, and through the heart — the waters have expelled all that, as Tvaṣṭṛ removes a defect from a cart.

19.7.9 All you rivers, queens of the Sindhu, consorts of the Sindhu — give us the medicine for that; with it we shall enjoy your gift.

19.7.10 May the divine hosts purify me, may the Manus purify me by thought, may all beings purify me — may the purifying stream purify me.

19.7.11 May the purifying current purify me for will, for power, for life, and for long beholding of the sun.

19.7.12 O divine Savitṛ, purify us with both — with the filter and with your impulse — for clear sight.

19.7.13 The foremost dart of jealousy, the lowest and the highest — the wrath that dwells in the heart, the grief — these we charm out of you.

19.7.14 That which is lodged in your heart, tending toward the mind, about to fly — from that I release your jealousy, as steam is released from a skin.

19.7.15 As the earth is dead in mind toward the dead, more dead in mind than the dead — as the mind of a corpse is dead — so let the mind of jealousy be dead.

19.8.1 May Heaven and Earth, the two all-knowing ones, may the bright and great South wind carry me across; with awareness let Soma, Agni, Vāyu, Savitṛ, and Bhaga come along with the self-law.

19.8.2 Mind has come back to us, life has come back, sight has come back, intention has come back; Vaiśvānara, undeceived, protector of the body, stands within, guarding from misfortune and from blame.

19.8.3 We have come together with radiance, with vital sap, with our bodies, with the auspicious mind; may Tvaṣṭṛ, well-shaped, make wide room — let him fashion the body's injury into wholeness.

19.8.4 This is that superior yoke by which I adorn Indra for the conquest; increase his dominion, his glory, his greatness — as rain increases the grass.

19.8.5 O Agni and Soma, increase his sovereignty, increase his wealth; and for the supremacy of his kingdom make the yoke highest.

19.8.6 Both the one with kin and the one without kin, the one born here and the one born outside — all of them you deliver to us, for the sacrificer who presses the soma.

19.8.7 May great fame, driven by Indra, thousand-peaked, well-wrought, powerful, increase; flowing forth for long life — increase the oblation-bearer for all-round completeness.

19.8.8 Indra was born with glory, Agni with glory, Soma was born with glory; of all that exists I am the most glorious.

19.8.9 We, glorious, serve you, O Agni, the glorious one, with glories and with this oblation; grant us the kingdom driven by Indra — may we be under your protection, under your advocacy.

19.8.10 I draw your wrath from your heart as one draws the bowstring from a bow; then, becoming of one mind, we two shall go together like friends.

19.8.11 We lead your anger away so we two may go together like friends; with a heavy stone we press your wrath down below.

19.8.12 I tread upon your anger with both heels and forefeet; I drive away from you the rod-worthy blow, I drive away your wrath.

19.8.13 The path was golden, the oars were golden, the boats were golden by which I brought kuṣṭha here.

19.8.14 Born on the mountain where the suparṇa bird cries, born around the Himālaya — they come famed with riches: O kuṣṭha, come here, destroyer of fever.

19.8.15 You who are born in the mountains, mightiest of herbs — O kuṣṭha, come here, destroyer of fever, driving fever away from here.

19.9.1 Make great obeisance to the Idāvatsara, the Parivatsara, and the Saṃvatsara; may we be in the good favor of those worthy of sacrifice, in their auspicious goodwill.

19.9.2 Your many god-trodden paths that pass along Heaven and Earth — whichever of these may bring us victory, may all the gods surround us for that one.

19.9.3 Autumn, winter, the cool season, spring, summer, the rains — set us in good course; grant us a share in cattle and in plants — only in a sheltered place may we dwell in your shelter.

19.9.4 Let Vaiśvānara come forth to us with help from afar; may Agni with hymns free us from distress.

19.9.5 May Vaiśvānara come to us, together attending this sacrifice and my praise-song.

19.9.6 May Vaiśvānara along with the Aṅgirasas fashion our praise-song and sacrifice; may he seize brilliant light and the sun among these.

19.9.7 I have conquered you when scratched, I have conquered you when blocked; as a wolf churns a sheep, so I churn what you have done.

19.9.8 As a thunderbolt always strikes a tree without resistance, so may I strike that gambler with the dice, without resistance.

19.9.9 From the swift and the slow, from the clans that seek the gods — may fortune come together from all sides; what is made is in my hand.

19.9.10 As long as the sky endures, as long as the earth, as long as the sun shines — for that long I release poison into you, as long as the rivers flow.

19.9.11 They rise up breathing out like cattle from the stall; of the snakes that are seen, the poison has no one to speak it away.

19.9.12 The speckle-bowed one struck at the junction of the arteries; the poison leapt to the head and scattered through the limbs.

19.9.13 May the serpent not slay us, O gods, us with our offspring, together with our men; let it not spread what is closed, let it not close what is open.

19.9.14 I set tooth against your teeth, I set jaw against your jaws; I set tongue against your tongue, I set mouth against your mouth.

19.9.15 Homage to the dark serpent, homage to the king who goes sideways; homage to the coiling tawny one, homage to the divine folk.

19.10.1 To the mind, to consciousness, to thought, to intention, and to understanding; to wisdom, to learning, and to sight — we pay homage with our oblation.

19.10.2 To the in-breath, to the out-breath, to the diffused breath, to the abundantly seed-bearing; to Sarasvatī of wide extent — we pay homage with our oblation.

19.10.3 May the divine seers, protectors of the body, the pure ones, born of austerity, not abandon us. O immortals, accompany us mortals; grant us further lifespan to live.

19.10.4 This indeed is the remedy, this is Rudra's remedy, by which they warded off the arrow of single point and hundred barbs.

19.10.5 Sprinkle us with the jālāṣa water; moisten us with the jālāṣa. Grant us that jālāṣa, the auspicious remedy, to keep us alive.

19.10.6 May there be ease for us and joy for us; let nothing whatever afflict us. May earth cleanse away disease; may all be a remedy for us.

19.10.7 May Indra the bountiful make me glorious; may Soma, Varuṇa, Vāyu, and Agni make me glorious. May the god Savitṛ make me glorious; may I be dear to the giver, beloved of the sacrificial fee.

19.10.8 As Indra is glorious between heaven and earth, as the waters are among the plants — as he is among all the gods — so may we be glorious among the gods.

19.10.9 Glorious ourselves, with glories we approach glorious Indra; we honor him with this oblation. May he establish for us the sovereignty driven by Indra; may we be under his protection, his special pleaders.

19.10.10 Let Varuṇa come here; let Soma, Agni, and Bṛhaspati come here together with the Vasus. O kinsmen, all of one mind, come together to share the glory of this fierce and discerning one.

19.10.11 Come here, do not depart from us. May Pūṣan make for you a pathless way if you go beyond. The lord of the homestead has called you here; may your delight, O kinsmen, rest in me.

19.10.12 Whatever vigor is within your hearts, whatever intention has entered your minds — that I attune with oblation and clarified butter; may your delight, O kinsmen, rest in me.

19.10.13 Come to my thought, all of you, at the moment of departure and departure, as to the invocation of Indra and Agni. May Bṛhaspati yoke you to me; be of one mind and follow my speech.

19.10.14 I seize your minds with my mind; come to my thought with your thoughts. I make your hearts subject to my will; come following in my path, come to me.

19.10.15 Let your eye come to me, let your breath come to me; may the Dhātṛ make your path follow my footstep. Whether your elders or your young ones — come, following in my path, come with those who follow.

19.11.2 You were born above the gods; you are placed as a friend of Soma. As such, be gracious for the in-breath, the out-breath, and the sight of this one.

19.11.3 You were indeed struck against the iron post, bound by the thousand deaths. May Yama give you back to me; to that god we pay homage with oblation.

19.11.4 The bond that the divine Nirṛti has bound upon your neck, the unbreakable fetter — that I loose from you for life and for strength. Being released, eat untroubled food.

19.11.5 Homage to you, O Nirṛti who possesses all good things; loosen this iron bond. You, being in accord with Yama and the Fathers, cause this one to ascend to the highest vault of heaven.

19.11.6 Offer this well into the inner fire, with clarified butter, as the destroyer of sorcerers. O Agni, burn the demons from afar; let them not scorch our bodies.

19.11.7 Śarva has broken your necks, O Piśācas; may Agni crush your ribs. The all-potent plant has united you with death.

19.11.8 Make us free of Piśācas below, free of Piśācas above; O Indra, make us free of Piśācas behind, free of Piśācas in front.

19.11.9 Indra first made the Asuras handless. We too cut off the arms of our enemies with this oblation.

19.11.10 Let the enemy be handless, powerless against us — those who come against us in battle with their armies. Strike them together, O Indra, with a great blow; let the sin-slayer, piercing them, make them flee.

19.11.11 Let their fury sink down, let their two arms yoked to the mind sink down. O Parāśara, crush their outward-turned vigor; bring the wealth here toward us.

19.11.12 You who stretch your bows, who draw them back, who shoot and run — stand there as enemies made handless; today Indra has dispersed you.

19.11.13 Let the enemies be handless; we wither their limbs. O Indra, may we divide up their possessions among our herds.

19.11.14 The handlessness you gods shoot as an arrow upon the handless — may my warriors conquer with steadfast Indra as their ally.

19.12.1 The aśvattha tree has climbed the śamī tree; there the rite for begetting a son is performed. That very thing is his remedy — what they bring forth in women.

19.12.2 The seed truly arises in the male and is poured into the female. That indeed is the means of obtaining a son — so spoke Prajāpati.

19.12.3 Prajāpati reflected and Sinīvālī fashioned it: placing the female nature elsewhere, and placing the male nature here.

19.12.4 "The plants over which Soma is king" — thus one verse [cited by reference].

19.12.5 May they release me from the curse-born sin, and from that which belongs to Varuṇa; and from the snare of Yama, from all evil done against the gods.

19.12.6 Whatever sin we have committed with the eye, with the mind, or with speech, whether waking or sleeping — from that sin may wise Soma purify me by his sovereign power.

19.12.7 Let the sacrifice be all-conquering; let Agni be all-conquering; let Soma be all-conquering; let Indra be all-conquering. So that this one may overcome all battle hosts — thus we offer this oblation at the Agnihotra.

19.12.8 O Mitra and Varuṇa, may there be self-power; swell here the progeny-rich sovereignty with sweetness. Drive hatred and Nirṛti away; bestow upon this one sovereignty, brilliance, and vital force.

19.12.9 "This hero" — thus one verse [cited by reference].

19.12.10 Like the onslaught of fire his vigor advances, and like one intoxicated he goes away wailing. To you, O Fever — ruddy, tawny, bearing scorching treasure — let there be homage.

19.12.11 Homage to Yama, homage to Death, homage to King Varuṇa the radiant. Homage to the lord of the field, homage to the sky, homage to the earth, homage to the plants.

19.12.12 This one who makes people yellow, burning them up, assailing them like fire — be without sap now, O Fever; depart hence, downward or away.

19.12.13 Indra conquers; may he not be conquered. The overlord shall rule as king among kings. Being much praised, worthy of invocation, worthy of acclaim — worthy of approach and homage, may he be here.

19.12.14 You, O Indra, are the overlord, famed; you are the overcoming power over people. Rule over these divine peoples; may your ageless sovereignty be endowed with long life.

19.12.15 In the eastern direction you are the overlord, O Indra; in the northern direction you are the slayer of Vṛtra and the Dasyus. Wherever the famous rivers flow, that is your conquest; to the south you are the bull, worthy of oblation.

19.13.1 I call upon Indra, who is most spacious, to protect you from the snares that have ensnared you before; I invoke the mighty one, the swift-striker, who bears many names, the sole-born.

19.13.2 Whatever martial blow seeks to slay you today and cannot be lifted — around that we wrap the two arms of Indra on all sides.

19.13.3 We wrap the two arms of Indra, the protector, all around; may he protect us. O divine Savitṛ and King Soma, make us well-minded for our well-being.

19.13.4 The gods gave it, the Sun gave it, Heaven gave it, the Earth gave it; all the Sarasvatīs, of one mind, gave the antidote to poison.

19.13.5 With the water that the gods poured into you, O grasshoppers, in the desert — with that, O god-impelled ones, corrupt this poison.

19.13.6 You are the daughter of the asuras, you are the sister of the gods; born of heaven and earth, you have rendered the poison powerless.

19.13.7 The loosening of bones, the loosening of joints, what has seized the heart and made it ill — drive out entirely the balāsa-disease, that which dwells in the limbs and in the joints.

19.13.8 From the balāsa-afflicted man I drive out the balāsa, as one sheds a lotus; I cut its root-bond like the root of a gourd.

19.13.9 Fly forth from here, O balāsa, like a fine-winged bird from its nest; like a yearling colt freed from its tether, flee away — you killer of heroes.

19.13.10 Swell up, breathe, grow, and spread out; let your phallus grow as the limb grows — with that, arouse the woman.

19.13.11 That by which they fatten the lean, that by which they invigorate the sick — with that, O Brahmaṇaspati, stretch his member like a bowstring on a bow.

19.13.12 I stretch your member, like the bowstring upon a bow; stride forth unflaggingly, like an antelope mounting a female rohit-deer.

19.13.13 O gods, this pigeon that was sent — desiring something, it came here as a messenger of Nirṛti; let us worship it, let us perform an expiation for it. May there be peace for our bipeds and quadrupeds.

19.13.14 May the sent pigeon be auspicious to us; O gods, may the bird in our house be blameless. May the wise Agni accept our oblation; may the winged arrow turn aside from us.

19.13.15 The winged arrow does not harm us; the fire-kindler makes a foothold at the fire-altar. May there be welfare for our cattle and our men; may the pigeon not injure us here, O gods.

19.13.16 Rejoicing in refreshment, let us drive the cow around, stopping up the stations of misfortune. With the verse drive off the pigeon, driving it away; may the one who dwells with us fly forth, abandoning us, to find strength elsewhere.

19.13.17 I push you away, I drive you forth, O pigeon, along with the rakṣas; we send you to that place from which you will not come back again.

19.14.1 As this draught-animal, O Aśvins, comes together and moves in harmony — so let your mind come together toward me and move in harmony.

19.14.2 I press your mind as a royal horse presses the spine; as grass cut by a sickle, so let your mind be wound around me.

19.14.3 Of the collyrium, of the sweet-smelling herb, of the kuṣṭha plant, and of the nalada — I bring the swift compeller of Fortune with both hands.

19.14.4 Here comes Aryaman from the east, with loosened forelock; may he seek a husband for the unmarried girl, and also a wife for the un-fathered man.

19.14.5 She grew weary, O Aryaman, going to the assembly of others; O Aryaman, surely now another comes to her assembly.

19.14.6 Dhātṛ has upheld the earth; Dhātṛ has upheld the sky and the sun; may Dhātṛ bestow upon this unmarried girl a desirable husband.

19.14.7 The waters sent sweetness to me; the Sun brought me radiant desire; for me the gods and all the heat-born ones — for me the god Savitṛ has established expanse.

19.14.8 I have upheld the earth and the sky; I brought forth the seven rivers together; whatever truth and falsehood I speak — I encompass all speech and all desire.

19.14.9 I pervade the earth and the sky; I released the seven seasons together; I have come to encompass all speech — I who have enjoyed Agni and Soma as companions.

19.14.10 For our draught-oxen first, for our milch-cows, O Arundhatī — grant shelter to the non-milking one, to the fledgling, to the four-footed.

19.14.11 The plant Arundhatī, together with the gods, grants shelter; may she make the cow-pen rich in milk and the men free from disease.

19.14.12 I invoke the all-formed, the fortunate, the life-giving one; may she carry far away from our cattle the shaft of Rudra.

19.14.13 Yama, Death, the sin-slayer Nirṛti, Bhava, Śarva the archer, the blue-crested one — may these divine beings, who have risen up in battle-array, guard our heroes round about.

19.14.14 With mind, with oblations, with the fire, with ghee — to Śarva the archer and to King Bhava — I make obeisance to those worthy of obeisance; may they lead the evil poisons away from us to elsewhere.

19.14.15 Protect us from the evil poisons, from slaying — O Agni, Soma, and Maruts of pure might; O All-Gods, Maruts, Vaiśvadeva, may we be in the good graces of Vāta and Parjanya.

19.15.1 Let them know together in mind, let them be of one accord in understanding; let them not fight with divine wrath. Let no tumult arise on the great day of conflict; let the striker fall on the day of Indra's arrival.

19.15.2 We bring together your minds, your vows, your intentions; these who are of divided vow — them we cause to know together with you.

19.15.3 The bringing-together of your minds, and also the bringing-together of your hearts — that which is the wearied share of Fortune, with that he brings you into accord.

19.15.4 Let your bodies come together, your minds together, and your skins together; Brahmaṇaspati and Soma bring you into mutual accord.

19.15.5 Accord with our own people, accord with strangers — O Aśvins, you two, bestow accord here upon us.

19.15.6 As the Ādityas and Vasus came together — fierce Maruts without enmity — so, O three-named one, without enmity, make this people of one mind.

19.15.7 Drive that rival from his dwelling — he who makes war; with the oblation that drives away, O Indra, shatter him completely.

19.15.8 Go to the three distant realms, go beyond the five peoples; go to the seven luminous regions — as far as the Sun is in the sky.

19.15.9 The divine Indra has driven you to the most distant remote region, so that you will not come back for endless years.

19.15.10 For you, O apāmārga plant, have come to be one whose fruit faces backward; ward off all curses from me, warding them farther and farther away.

19.15.11 Whatever a rival curses, whatever a kinsman curses against us, whatever a Brahmin curses out of anger — all that let be under our feet.

19.15.12 She who hates evil, who is god-impelled, the radiant one, the driver-away of curses — she has washed away all curses from me like filth with water.

19.15.13 When they sit around him, when they compose him for inspection — the kindled fire rises up with its tongues from above the heart.

19.15.14 I take hold of the station of Agni, the mighty scorcher, for life; the one who cannot be prevented sees the smoke rising from his mouth.

19.15.15 He who knows this kindling-wood laid together with a kṣatriya — he who does not set his foot in the crooked place, he is for death.

19.15.16 The circling ones do not slay him; he does not sink down among the prostrate — that kṣatriya who, knowing, utters the name of Agni for long life.

19.16.1 Heaven has stood firm, earth has stood firm, this entire world has stood firm. These mountains stand steady; in their steadiness the horses have found rest.

19.16.2 Him who raises up at going forth, who raises up at the final journey, the one who is the guardian of return and of coming back — him too I call upon.

19.16.3 The turnings, the counter-turnings, the return-course, the approach — the four turnings of Agni: with these we satisfy you.

19.16.4 O Jātavedas, turn him back. Let there be a hundred turnings for you, a thousand counter-turnings for you. With these, turn him back.

19.16.5 Let the one who tears asunder be powerless, O god Soma. Be gracious to us, O Maruts, in this sacrifice. Let not oppression find us, let not ill-omen reach us; let not the hateful misfortune reach us.

19.16.6 Whatever divine stroke today approaches us seeking to slay — you two, O Mitra and Varuṇa, drive it away from us entirely.

19.16.7 Drive away sin from this side and from that side, O Varuṇa. Spread out great shelter; drive away the stroke — wide protection.

19.16.8 Drive away the eastern enemies, O Indra, O Maghavan; push away the western ones, O conqueror. Drive away the northern ones, drive away those who are lower in the south, so that we may rejoice in your wide shelter.

19.16.9 With that oblation of the existent being, let this man be replenished again. The wife that I have found for him — let her grow abundant with vital sap.

19.16.10 Let her grow abundant with offspring, let her grow abundant with dominion. May these two be of thousandfold vigor through the yoke-pole — unwasted.

19.16.11 Tvaṣṭar begot the wife; Tvaṣṭar placed you as husband for her. May Tvaṣṭar make a thousand life-spans, a long life, for you two.

19.16.12 He flies through mid-air, beholding all beings. This is the greatness of the divine dog; for him I pour this oblation.

19.16.13 Your birth is in the waters, your dwelling-place is in heaven, your self is the ocean, your greatness is on the earth. This is the greatness of the divine dog; for him I pour this oblation.

19.16.14 Those three Kālakāñjas who rest in heaven like gods — I call all of them for help, for the unharmed wholeness of this man.

19.16.15 You who cause a man to faint, O divine dog, the killer of menless ones — you I push away with sacred formula. Do not slay this man.

19.16.16 The divine dog who is tawny, iron-toothed, and roaming about — his name I have seized, for the unharmed wholeness of this man: "May he live for us," so saying.

19.16.17 May this one, the lord of the sky, Saṃsphāna, protect us — unequaled in our homes.

19.16.18 You, lord of the sky, sustain nourishing strength in our homes. Let abundance come, let riches come.

19.16.19 O god Saṃsphāna, you are the lord of thousandfold nourishment. Grant us a share of it; may we partake of your portion; may we be sharers of your portion. Svāhā!

19.17.1 You are a controller, you extend the hand, you drive away the demons. This one has become a wearer of the bracelet, grasping offspring and wealth.

19.17.2 O bracelet, hold the womb wide open for the making of an embryo. Place a son within the boundary; make him come — come!

19.17.3 The bracelet that Aditi wore out of longing for a son — Tvaṣṭar has bound that very one onto her, so that she might bring forth a son.

19.17.4 Come! Of the one who has come, approaching, I seize the name — of Indra the slayer of Vṛtra, the king, the lord of the Vasus, the performer of a hundred deeds.

19.17.5 By the path by which the two Aśvins carried Sāvitrī the daughter of the Sun — by that same path Bhaga has spoken: "Let him bring home a wife."

19.17.6 Your goad, O Indra, the great one of gold, the giver of goods — with it, place for him who desires a wife his wife, O performer of a hundred deeds.

19.17.7 Come to us first, O Intelligence, with cows and horses. You are in the rays of the sun; you are the one worthy of worship for us.

19.17.8 Intelligence, the foremost, full of sacred formulas, praised by seers, drunk deep by those who practice chastity — that intelligence I choose with the help of the gods.

19.17.9 Intelligence in the evening, intelligence in the morning, intelligence around midday — intelligence rising with the sun, we have praised it as it stirs.

19.17.10 In the sap of the earthly one, in the strength of the divine Bhaga's body — Soma has placed life for him, Bṛhaspati has placed brilliance.

19.17.11 Place life for him, O Jātavedas; place offspring and vigor deeply within, O Tvaṣṭar. Press out abundance of riches for him, O Savitṛ. This one of yours shall live a hundred autumns.

19.17.12 May Āśīr grant us nourishment and fine offspring; let it place skill and wealth of bright luster. Conquering fields by might, O Indra, making rivals lower and subdued.

19.17.13 Savitṛ has come here with the razor, with warm water — come! The Ādityas, the Rudras, the Vasus, of one mind, the wise ones, have shaved for King Soma.

19.17.14 With the razor with which Savitṛ, knowing, shaved for King Soma and for Varuṇa — with that razor the brahmin-priests shave this one of his. Let this hero be untired and long-lived.

19.17.15 Let Aditi shave the beard; let the waters drench him with brilliance. Let Prajāpati hold him again and again for good shaving.

19.18.1 Your arteries and veins that are distributed along your limbs — from all of them together we call forth the poisons out.

19.18.2 The arrow that Rudra has fixed in your limbs and in your heart — that very one today we tear out of you, pointing it away in all directions.

19.18.3 Homage to your face, O Rudra, homage to your arrows that are fitted on the bow. Homage to those that are being released; homage to those aimed at us.

19.18.4 Your hundred veins that flow downward from the head — let them burst open separately, each following that channel of blood.

19.18.5 Let the ones bearing moisture flow along that channel of blood, so that they may not linger inside him — like water flowing in its course.

19.18.6 Let the sun go westward; the streams made to flow go westward. Let this downward-flowing channel from blood cut through the herbs.

19.18.7 This barley they have plowed with eight teams, with six teams. May it indeed strip away the bodily blemish from you, driving it westward.

19.18.8 The wind blows downward; the sun burns downward. The inviolable cow milks downward. Let your blemish go downward.

19.18.9 The waters are indeed healers; the waters are the ones that drive away disease. Let the waters, moving toward the ocean, carry your blemish away.

19.18.10 Those who come to battle having made their banners row by row — Indra has bound them around with a cord; you, O Agni, bind them too.

19.18.11 However many streams come, however many battle-fronts there are — Indra has bound them around with a cord; you, O Agni, bind them too.

19.18.12 Bind together the farthest ones, bind together the nearest ones, and also bind the middle ones together. Indra has bound them around with a cord; you, O Agni, bind them too.

19.18.13 Bṛhaspati has made the binding for you, Savitṛ has made the binding. Indra and Agni have made the binding, Bhaga and the two Aśvins have made the binding.

19.18.14 Your radiances, O divine Sun, spread across the sky as you rise — with all of them, make me radiant today before mankind.

19.18.15 Place me in radiance among the brahmin-priests; place me in radiance among the kings. In radiance among the clan-folk and the Śūdras — place radiance in radiance in me.

19.18.16 The radiances that are in gold, those that are in Agni, and those that are in the Sun — O Indra and Agni, place those radiances in me. Place radiance upon radiance, O Bṛhaspati.

19.19.1 Release me from evil, O sin, being subdued, grant us ease. Place me, unstraying, in auspicious abodes.

19.19.2 That evil which does not abandon me — we abandon it. Be spoken away from us elsewhere, O thousand-eyed immortal.

19.19.3 At the turning of the road we press out one freed from sin. Go to him who hates us; strike down him whom we hate.

19.19.4 You are bound up like a corpse; I have found no enjoyment in you. I split your head, O sin, so that you may not come again.

19.19.5 May Indra guard us by day from the snare of death, for well-being. May Heaven guard us in our midst, may Earth the queen guard us, for well-being.

19.19.6 May the Sun guard us by day from the snare of death, for well-being. May the Wind guard us in our midst; may Day-and-Night guard us, for well-being.

19.19.7 May Soma guard us by day from the snare of death, for well-being. May the Waters guard us in our midst; may Dissolution not rule over us.

19.19.8 Together be your sight, together your heart, together your mind uniting with mind — through ghee, through the oblation with clarified butter, for this cow whose calf is of the same form.

19.19.9 The charm of union which Kakṣīvān, son of the Aṅgirasas, knew — with that charm the gods have today united you two beloved ones together.

19.19.10 The union-charm of your minds, and the union-charm of your hearts — and what portion of Bhaga is exhausted — with that I unite you two.

19.19.11 I seize your mind with my mind, your eye with my eye. Embrace me thus, so that your mind may be fixed in me.

19.19.12 Let that one turn toward me as the two wheels of a chariot. Let that one wind around me in mind, like a blade of grass severed by a sickle.

19.19.13 I have gone around you with this herb — away from the sorceress, away from the mother, away from the sister; I have gone around you away from other women with this herb.

19.19.14 You who are the assembly-hall of Indra, in whom they sit at council, whose leaves are gold — to you, O Aśvattha tree, homage.

19.19.15 You who fill the atmosphere with branches, downward-rooted, whose leaves are the sacred metres — to you, O Aśvattha tree, homage.

19.19.16 You whom the deer does not reach, nor the bird flying on its wings — you who prop up the entire sky — to you, O Aśvattha tree, homage.

19.20.1 Born under the star Jyeṣṭhaghni, released from Yama's snare — growing up, may you not harm your parents. May your two tigers be gentle and auspicious; may all misfortunes pass over you.

19.20.2 A hero was born on a tiger-day, born of the nakṣatra, full of heroes, well-heroic. Growing up, may he not harm his parents; may the gods accept the oblation for him.

19.20.3 The Rohiṇī stars, wives of the gods, swell like a milk cow — there let the three Vyaṣṭakā festivals speak over all, for offspring and for the living world, for you both.

19.20.4 When the powerful gods churned fire-drill with fire-drill, person with person in the damp wood — here let that pair of the same womb flourish, a living offspring reaching old age with splendid brilliance.

19.20.5 O Aśvins, smite the locust and the tarda-bird and the mouse; split the head, grind the jaws and teeth. So that they may not devour our grain and rend it — make for us freedom from fear for our grain.

19.20.6 Ho, tarda-bird! Ho, locust! Ho, jabhya and upakvasa! — not eating this grain, not harming it, be driven away!

19.20.7 O lord of tarda-birds, lord of the vagha, O sharp-toothed one — hear us. The oblation unsavored, like a hotr priest's offering, approach with clipped tongues!

19.20.8 O tarda, with the jabhya's lapping tongue — whoever first seeks to satiate himself on this heavenly ambrosia — pierce him face-on at the vital spot with a flame.

19.20.9 Those born from clouds, those born from the wind, those who came into being from the sky — we bind shut the mouths of the sons of Marīci.

19.20.10 The white ones, the green ones, the black ones, and the red ones — under the command of Kabandha, we crush the locusts.

19.20.11 Fly through the atmosphere; do not fall upon the grain. Settle on the ridges of the mountains; eat grass and potsherds, O locusts — that is as your people.

19.20.12 Just as horses harnessed to a yoke draw well — so, urine, burst forth; open and release the mouth of the bladder.

19.20.13 Opened is your bladder's hole, like the ocean's vessel. I split open your urinary passage — the obstruction — as if opening a dam.

19.20.14 Those aged ones, the tongue-lickers, who rise from the ocean — they know the cure of urinary disease and of both urinary organs.

19.20.15 The wrinkles of the head, the wrinkles of the face, the wrinkles from limb to limb, from the mouth — may Indrāṇī wipe away all those wrinkles from the skin.

19.20.16 The wrinkles that were born on the skin, those that came into being around the body — may Indrāṇī attach all those wrinkles onto the branches of the Śamī tree.

19.20.17 My wrinkle has climbed up the Śamī tree and forsaken me. This one Indra's wife made the receptacle of wrinkles.

19.21.1 Just as the Sun draws to itself the brilliances of the nakṣatras in the sky — so I take to myself the splendor and vital force of my rivals.

19.21.2 Whatever brilliance belongs to my rivals, whatever fame resides among my adversaries — may Indra the slayer of Vṛtra, Dhātā, and Savitā make that shine within me.

19.21.3 Whatever cattle belong to my rivals, whatever wealth lies among my adversaries — having won it as if by conquest in a game, may Savitā make that shine within me.

19.21.4 Truth alone shall conquer, not falsehood; the path of truth shall be straight and good. Speaking truth, let us tend the sacred fire; by truth did Heaven and Earth spread apart.

19.21.5 By the truth of Vāgbhāga, by the benevolence of Rudra, and with Indra pronouncing over it — may we know dominion over the people and the power of speech.

19.21.6 That arrow of yours, O Rudra, which is aimed at speech, or that which is fitted to it — the means by which we quarrel — destroy the injury caused by that.

19.21.7 Destroy the injury caused by that — whether the true or the false — by him who, O Indra slayer of Vṛtra, seeks to conquer us in speech through injury.

19.21.8 Rise up, burst upward, O breath; settle here abundantly, fill this. And let it pour from above as if from the midst of the ocean.

19.21.9 The ocean with a hundred streams, with a thousand streams, inexhaustible — Indra moving from the east, O full cattle-pen, fill this.

19.21.10 Fill here, fill full here; O bull, make the procreative organs active. Here let cows be born, here horses, here men. Let the one with a thousand gifts of honor here settle upon the territory.

19.21.11 To Jyeṣṭhaghni, to the nakṣatras, to day, to night — this homage. I offer to Viśvakarman; may he, being gracious, show us mercy.

19.21.12 May this one not slay the firstborn, O Agni; he strips away the root-destroying one from them. Loosen the snares of the seizure, knowing it; free the father, the son, the mother — release them all.

19.21.13 Release their snares, O Agni — the three that were raised up in threes, by which they were bound. Growing up, may this one not harm the father; may he not harm the mother who bore him.

19.21.14 Loosen the snares of the seizure that bind — her whom the wise ones guard with sacred formulas. O Agni, release their bonds; day after day may well-being follow for the one born of you.

19.21.15 Turn back; do not go away — let the Revatī stars cling to us. O Agni and Soma, O Punarvasu, increase the wealth of this one.

19.21.16 Turn these back again; bring these close again. Let Indra hold these back; let Agni come to them.

19.21.17 I place around you on all sides strength, ghee, and milk. Whatever gods are worthy of sacrifice — may they unite me with riches.

19.22.1 Homage be to the serpents, whoever they are throughout the earth, those in the atmosphere, those in the sky — homage to those serpents.

19.22.2 Those that are yonder in the luminous realm of heaven, those in the rays of the sun, those whose dwelling has been made in the waters — homage to those serpents.

19.22.3 Those that are the arrows of the sorcerers or of the forest-lords, those that lie coiled in pits — homage to those serpents.

19.22.4 With the oblation of barley-remnant may we increase him so that, full of brilliance, he may achieve heroic deeds; in concert with the gods may he overcome his rivals — may undecaying sovereignty and long life be his.

19.22.5 With the virile barley as a milk-rich oblation may the gods protect the life-force of the remnant; for the gods have placed great manly power in him — may Indra bestow vigour upon him.

19.22.6 Together with the oblation of the remnant, together with the hymns of praise, together with life-force and lustre, may he bestow milk; for the gods have placed great manly power in him — may Indra bestow vigour upon him.

19.22.7 May Vāyu assemble them; may Tvaṣṭṛ be established for their flourishing; may Indra speak on their behalf; may Rudra attend to their abundance.

19.22.8 Just as the gods and the asuras did it, just as humans likewise did — so, O Aśvins, produce the auspicious mark for thousandfold prosperity.

19.22.9 With a red knife make a pair of marks on the ears; the Aśvins have made that mark — may it be plentiful through offspring.

19.22.10 The tawny fair-winged ones travel the dark path, clothed in water, they fly up to heaven; and they return from the seat of cosmic order — thereupon the earth spreads open with ghee.

19.22.11 Make these waters and herbs milk-rich, O Maruts with golden breasts, when you stir; and there you swell with strength and goodwill, where, O Maruts, you men pour the sweet drink.

19.22.12 Swollen with water, O Maruts, rouse them with rain when you fill all the valleys; the reed-grass trembles like a maiden struck, stirring like a wife toward her husband.

19.22.13 Like Tvaṣṭṛ, like Pūṣan, the beloved of the home, great good fortune — the two bulls have come to us; rejoicing in good pastures in all directions, be for us the vanguard of this wealth.

19.22.14 Let them come hither, yielding sweetness, free from disease, eager, of all forms; becoming many and multiplying — here may Indra delight you, O cows.

19.22.15 May Prajāpati generate these offspring; may Tvaṣṭṛ, of gracious mind, establish them; may the lord of nourishment, in concert with the seasons throughout the year, place nourishment in me.

19.23.1 You are indeed named the mighty one; you were born from power. Powerful Indra is among the gods — for power we dig you up.

19.23.2 With the powerful divine remedy, the hundred-jointed one, with that thousand-stemmed plant I bring about restoration.

19.23.3 I have seized the name of the powerful divine remedy; the diseases have dispersed away from the man, as if by a blessing.

19.23.4 Let Nirṛti depart; let nothing of her remain here. Away from her bonds of power — the hundred deaths I drive away.

19.23.5 Your hundred snares, O Death, set to slay the mortal — all of them we worship away from you with the power of sacrifice.

19.23.6 Let the hundred deaths that belong to Nirṛti depart from here, away! We drive away their darkness; we establish breath and light.

19.23.7 These three-times-seven repellers — with them Indra spoke to me: 'Let them ward off poison,' he said, 'let them corrupt the poison.'

19.23.8 Speak this out, O Maruts — this counter-spell of great Indra; she is worth a thousand, she wards off poison.

19.23.9 Heaven has stood firm; the earth has stood firm; this entire world has stood firm; the fearlessnesses against poison have stood firm — like a feeble one facing headwinds.

19.23.10 Just as a well-sharpened arrow flies swiftly away — so, O reed-grass, fly away together with the rush of the wind.

19.23.11 Just as the bright eye of one who has sight flies away aflame — [fly away] together with the rays of the sun.

19.23.12 Just as the mind of wrathful intent flies away by leagues — so, O reed-grass, fly away along the outflow of the ocean.

19.23.13 Go away from here, be fierce, be not weak; let all the gods summon you, let all the clans choose you.

19.23.14 With the oblation of the descent we send you off downward; here may Indra make the clans his own, bringing tribute.

19.23.15 Indra, Kaśyapa, then Agni — Iḍā is your fourth companion; with whatever has been, is, and shall be present — with that I send you off.

19.24.1 Disease does not cling to him; the curse does not reach him — whom the fragrant odour of the bdellium remedy reaches.

19.24.2 Whom the fragrant odour of the bdellium remedy reaches — from him diseases scatter in all directions, like deer from an arrow.

19.24.3 What is bdellium, what is Sindhu salt, or what is the sea-herb — I have seized the name of both for his inviolability.

19.24.4 The gods ploughed this barley mixed with honey on the Sarasvatī, on the jewel-field; Indra the hundred-powered was lord of the plough; the Maruts, bountiful givers, were the ploughmen.

19.24.5 O broad-leafed one, auspicious, dreaming upward, rich in truth — be gentle to our hair as a mother to her sons; grant us welfare.

19.24.6 Whatever intoxication of yours causes dishevelled hair, loosened hair, by which you make a man ridiculous — you who move like one who kills an embryo from afar — from that offspring of yours I cause the hair to grow well.

19.24.7 I place the auspicious goddess of intention in the fore; may the mother of thought be easy for us to invoke. Whatever hope I pursue as my sole goal, let it be mine; may I know her as entered into the mind.

19.24.8 O Bṛhaspati, come to us with intention, approach us with intention; then bestow Bhaga upon us, and be easy for us to invoke.

19.24.9 May Bṛhaspati the Āṅgirasa acknowledge my intention and this speech; he of whom the gods became divinities — may Desire with its good guidance follow after us.

19.24.10 Now let us invoke the mind with a hymn of praise to Narāśaṃsa, and with the thoughts of the fathers.

19.24.11 May the mind come back to us again, for will, for discernment, for living — and for long beholding of the sun.

19.24.12 May the fathers, the divine folk, give us back our mind; may we join the living throng.

19.24.13 We, O Soma, in your observance, bearing mind in our bodies — may we join, possessing offspring.

19.24.14 Lustre for me, O Mitra and Varuṇa; lustre, O divine Sarasvatī; both of you Aśvins, garlanded with lotuses, grant lustre to me.

19.24.15 Whatever lustre is placed in the sacrificer, whatever is placed in the sacrifice, whatever lustre is in the tawny sura-drink — of that lustre may I partake.

19.24.16 The streams that flow down from springs, the streams of heaven, from rivers — with the lustre of all those waters I sprinkle you.

19.24.17 When the constellations made Śakadhūma king, they granted him an auspicious day — from that the kingdom was born.

19.24.18 May there be an auspicious day for us in the evening; may there be an auspicious day for us in the morning; O Śakadhūma, always make an auspicious day for us.

19.24.19 You who have made an auspicious day for us in the evening, in the morning, and during the day — to you, O king of constellations Śakadhūma, homage always.

19.24.20 What they call the Śakadhūma day, the first-born light of the constellations at the fore — may that win for us a honey-sweet gain, and may it grant us wealth with all heroes.

19.25.1 In the post, in the pit, enmity has been made with the radiance of the gods. May fire be between you two, so that you two shall not be together.

19.25.2 As a person hates a serpent, or a serpent hates a person, may a mountain be between you two, so that you two shall not be together.

19.25.3 May your intentions be different, may your thoughts be different. May you two turn away in opposite directions, so that you two shall not be together.

19.25.4 Here are two lotuses, two beaks — do not let them touch that one, O lord of the throat. O destroyer, burn him up.

19.25.5 This thing of yours — whether it was or was not, whether it was yours or not — may it perish from here, just as wealth seen in a dream perishes.

19.25.6 Swallow, swallow, swallow down the unripened one. May the petty, mean thing perish.

19.25.7 For long life, for strength, for my wholeness and freedom from harm — the eagle has declared to me: this is the remedy for what clings.

19.25.8 As the wise ones, purifying meal with a sieve, have fashioned speech — from your limbs, from all your limbs, I cut away that which clings.

19.25.9 Cut away what clings — for the thigh is a healer. The divine eagle has declared: this is the remedy for what clings.

19.25.10 I have come as the overpowering one, as Viśvakarmā, armed with my own weapons. Ordering the affairs of Mitra, I am unconquerable in all these directions.

19.25.11 I am the one who convenes assemblies; I am the high priest of the clans. Ordering my friendships, may steadfast speech be in me.

19.25.12 I take away your sight, I take away your speech, I take away your assembly. Taking away your welfare and security, may I be supreme.

19.25.13 Agni, joined with sacred power, the slayer of demons — may he drive away from here the evil-named enemy who lies upon your body and womb.

19.25.14 The evil-named enemy who lies upon your body and womb — may Agni, the slayer of demons, together with his ally sacred power, drive him away from here.

19.25.15 From the monstrous demons, from the hostile sorcerers — may Agni, the slayer of demons, protect you with his benevolent body from them.

19.26.1 O divine Agni and Savitṛ, bestowing nourishment and vigor — protect me from evil conduct; grant me a share in good conduct. May I attain bliss under your two sheltering graces.

19.26.2 This very thing I approach you two with, this very thing I invoke — what we have heard coming from you. May the Lord of Speech grant it; may my learning abide in me.

19.26.3 Let me not steal from my offspring; may I not fail through what I have learned. O Agni, make our toil fruitful, rich in wealth.

19.26.4 Standing in the middle, brilliant with radiance — made for life and glory. Win favor among the All-Gods; do you win favor with Bṛhaspati.

19.26.5 With ghee one wins offspring; with ghee one attains riches. With ghee one wins from the gods what is life-giving and radiance-bestowing.

19.26.6 O Parjanya, the fig-berries — rivers have poured their embryo into you for well-being. The divine boundary-goddesses of sacred power have poured life-giving radiance.

19.26.7 As a bull elephant follows the footsteps of a cow elephant step by step, so do you, O inviolable cow, follow the footsteps of your calf step by step.

19.26.8 As the two wheels of a chariot scatter the dust of the road, so do I scatter the mind and heart of that one for winning love.

19.26.9 Indra's is the first word; the gods' is the second word; the Aśvins' is the third word — with that we bring the cow into compliance.

19.26.10 Up from here, the two dark, trembling ones have gone aloft like two vultures to the sky — the two scorching ones, the intensely scorching ones, those who burn up this person's heart.

19.26.11 Scorch him through and through; scorch him, ignite and ignite him. O Agni, burn the serpent's venom like grass, along with his confusion.

19.26.12 Sit down, O you two who are thoroughly seated; come back, go to where there is joy. The black cow of Sarasvatī is yours.

19.26.13 As the darkest night, as a black cow with black tracks — as the appearance of those whose cheeks are streaked, so may this head of mine be.

19.26.14 As a charcoal anointed with oil, as a black ladle — may this head of mine be like the dark blemish of his successor.

19.26.15 As a black flame scatters from a burning forest fire — as the face of that Niṣāda, so may this head of mine be.

19.27.1 Whatever that one offers with mind or speech, with sacrifices, with oblations, with sacrificial formulas — may Nirṛti, allied with Death, destroy his oblation before it is seen.

19.27.2 The sorcerers, Nirṛti, and also the demons — let them strike down his truth with falsehood. Sent forth by Indra, let them churn up his oblation; may what that one offers not be fulfilled.

19.27.3 O Agni, we set around you the inspired fort, O mighty one — you of bold color, day after day the slayer of the destroyers.

19.27.4 Two falcons that win the heavenly light, supreme rulers, swooping down together — the oblation of one who fights against us is destroyed, of whoever wages war against us.

19.27.5 Svāhā to the earth, to the forest trees, to the plants, to Agni the overlord.

19.27.6 Svāhā to the atmosphere, to breath, to the birds, to Vāyu the overlord.

19.27.7 Svāhā to the sky, to the eye, to the asterisms, to Sūrya the overlord.

19.27.8 The pippalī plants have spoken together, coming forth from their origin: the man whom we living ones shall reach — he shall not be harmed.

19.27.9 The pippalī — remedy when thrown, and also remedy when pierced — the gods have fashioned her, saying: 'She is indeed sufficient for living.'

19.27.10 The Asuras dug you down; the gods dug you up again. O pippalī, remedy when thrown, you are the healer of one afflicted by wind-sickness.

19.27.11 When the owl hoots — that is futile; when the pigeon makes its mark in the fire — to Yama whose two messengers have been dispatched and have come here, homage be to him, to Death.

19.27.12 Whatever messenger of yours, O Nirṛti, has come — unsent or sent — to our house: let the pigeon and owl be footless in that. You have come here speaking of non-hostile slaying; you have settled here for the sake of good heroism.

19.27.13 He who first settled on the slope, searching out the path for the many — he who rules over this world's bipeds and quadrupeds — to that Yama, homage be, to Death.

19.27.14 As the black one spreads out, following the cow, assuming forms through the Asura's magic — so may this hymn of my vigor, with this my member, make her fully equal to me.

19.27.15 As great as the member of a creature with limbs, of a boar, of an elephant, of a donkey — as great as that of a powerful stallion — may my phallus grow to that size.

19.27.16 As the phallus of a certain one is made large and swollen by the wind — as great as the phallus of a boar — may my phallus grow to that size.

19.28.1 Whose might encompasses dust, comrades, struggle, people, forest, and heaven — the power of Indra is not to be withstood.

19.28.2 The bold strength of the bold one — as of old it stood firm — great is the exhilarating power of Indra.

19.28.3 May he bestow upon us that wealth, abundant, tawny-hued — Indra, the most mighty lord among the peoples.

19.28.4 Bring life-span hither, O Agni, O Jātavedas, master of bodies, so that I may dwell here long as sovereign ruler over my progeny.

19.28.5 May Indra bestow life-span upon me; may the god Bṛhaspati bestow life-span; may all the gods and Day-and-Night create life-span for me.

19.28.6 May the life-giving one purify life-span; may breath bestow breath upon me — that which the gods have fashioned for the gods, going to the heavenly light in due order.

19.28.7 Let the cloud-bearing, roaring waters rise up from the ocean; let the spring waters, the sea-born waters — with those we gratify you.

19.28.8 The waters that are celestial, those that were born around the wind — Indra with the Maruts, of satisfied spirit: with those we gratify you.

19.28.9 The herbs that are dry, those that are green, those that have grown along the earth — all the herbs together: with those we gratify you.

19.28.10 May insight and good-thought of all forms enter into us, bringing mighty hymns; may the many Ṛk verses anoint me like cows, so that we may be listeners in the worlds.

19.28.11 Consecration, ardor, the breath of the mind — Bṛhaspati is the source of this speech; may the Vedas, may knowledge in abundance abide in me. O Agni and Soma, bestow glory upon us.

19.28.12 O Agni, when we gaze upon the heat with ardor — may we be dear to sacred learning, long-lived and of good intelligence.

19.28.13 The disease that overcame you as you were born from your mother or from your father — that wasting illness we drive away from you; let it enter and take refuge in another.

19.28.14 The wasting disease that lodges in your heart, that stands in the navel, that penetrates the belly, and that which clings in the extremities — that wasting illness we drive away from you; let it enter and take refuge in another.

19.28.15 Head-disease, limb-disease, the swelling of the sinews, the evil curse, the spreading eruption — the wasting disease in your marrow, in your joints, in your bowels — that wasting illness we drive away from you; let it enter and take refuge in another.

19.29.1 Agni the demon-slayer, sharp, sharp-horned — let him smite the demon, thrust away the enemy, and shoot away the ill-proclaimer.

19.29.2 Let strength and vigor come to you from the distant realm, from all around heaven; from the hills and mountains, bestowing life-span upon you from all sides.

19.29.3 May the earth give your breath back to you again; may divine heaven, may the atmosphere give it back again; may Soma restore your body again; may Pūṣan restore the path that leads to well-being.

19.29.4 Kaṣkiṣā, Kaṣpiṣā, Yevāṣā — this one here; sandy, dusty particles rushing, eager as desired cows.

19.29.5 The unseen, and also the seen — the seen and the unseen: slay them, O lord of wealth, with the weapon of Indra.

19.29.6 These and those of every form — the vultures and the cuckoos too are slain.

19.29.7 O Desire, desire me; turn toward me, come back to me; may your mind run after me like a calf toward its innocent dam.

19.29.8 O Abhīlā, O Abhimādanī — may that one become intoxicated with me; we know, O flying one, the name-charm of your arrow.

19.29.9 I take your mind to myself, like a mind-stealer stealing the mind; your mind is set in me like a chariot in the chariot-bearer.

19.29.10 That sun has risen together with my fortune; I am the priest of the clans — honey-handed, honey-tongued; may firm speech abide in me.

19.29.11 I become visible among humans with the banner of the clan-chief; may the great one be ours alone over all the directions, over all the kings.

19.29.12 Sweeter than the sweet, more honey-like than honey, dearer than a dear friend's intimacy — O Ādityas, make me so.

19.29.13 O Agni, you are Brahman; know this — speak forth to us. If this shall be so, or if not, then be pleased with this oblation here. Svāhā!

19.29.14 I question Heaven-and-Earth, I question Indra, I question Bṛhaspati; I question the gods worthy of sacrifice — for whom shall I live?

19.29.15 O King Yama, this ladle is raised up for knowledge, this oblation is set forth — be pleased with it. Be gladdened with the oblation for one whose life has not yet departed; let what belongs to the departed go to Nirṛti.

19.30.1 Whatever has sucked you out from the flesh, from the stirred drink, from the cooked food — may Agni, the universal healer, protect you from that sin.

19.30.2 The wind that blows upon you from below and from above — may the waters that bring universal well-being protect you from sin.

19.30.3 Death from you, Nirṛti from you, wasting disease — we press them down away from you, so that you may be free of wounds, full of upward strength, and superior.

19.30.4 May Vaiśvānara purify us with his rays; may the Wind, the vigorous one, purify us with breath and clouds; may Heaven-and-Earth, rich in milk, keepers of cosmic order, worthy of sacrifice, purify me.

19.30.5 May Prajāpati guard us with the five seasons, may the Year guard us with all its stations; may breath remain here with us in fellowship — I place it back again into the self.

19.30.6 Take hold of the truth-speech belonging to all the gods, being pure, clean, and purifying; praising with it in the communal rejoicings, may we become masters of riches.

19.30.7 Take hold of the splendor belonging to all men, whose spreading forms have backs filled with light. Praising here, rejoicing in the communal festivity, may we long behold the sun rising.

19.30.8 The Avatka plant is my remedy, the Avatka plant is my surrounding incantation; you are of human nature — do not pierce me, being the healer of disease.

19.30.9 Bring the Śambhuleha plant hither — the milk shoots it upward; that is the remedy for the flowing wound, and it has indeed destroyed the disease.

19.30.10 In the rivers, in the reed beds, in pots and in jars — the remedy by sprinkling: that remedy I make for you. Eat flesh, drink water, O Paṭpaṭiṅga, O Vipaścala — look clearly!

19.30.11 We have found what we sought — the oblation that destroys the Piśācas; with it we smite the flesh-eaters and all the she-sorcerers.

19.30.12 The foot-soldiers desire you, the chariot-warriors desire you; they buy you with cows and horses — it is as if you were immortality itself.

19.30.13 The remedy named Amamri, lifted up from the earth — a speaker told that to me: "This alone will carry you across."

19.30.14 You are the eye of man, the eye of the cow, the eye of the horse; you are the eye of what has been and what shall be, the eye of the Apsarases.

19.30.15 You are the eye of the eagle, the eye of the serpent, and also of the dog; you are the eye of all that sees, and of all that stirs in the universe.

19.30.16 I addressed the thousand-eyed one who seizes and ensnares: "Show me the sorcerers — show me the she-sorcerers."

19.31.1 I have seen beyond this earth, beyond the sky, beyond the sun; beyond all these beings I have seen — the demonesses have been seen through.

19.31.2 Show me the sorcerers, show me the demonesses; show me all those who intend evil — with this in mind I take hold of you, O herb.

19.31.3 Thus you, thousand-eyed one, see forward as you approach; you are the power that devours the sorcerers.

19.31.4 These serpent-like creatures here on the far side, three times seven, shedding their skins — with their shed skin we cover the eyes of the one who lies in wait with evil intent.

19.31.5 Let her go in all directions, cutting, bearing a club as it were; those with evil intent who reappear repeatedly in every direction — may they be unfulfilled.

19.31.6 Away, you lurkers on the path! Let the evildoer flow away like water. Let neither the many be able to overpower, nor the small ones dare to attack.

19.31.7 Go forward, kick with both feet, carry to the house of the generous giver; let Indrāṇī go first — unconquered, unrobbed, along the path.

19.31.8 The Phālguna gem has come here, together with strength and the bestower of strength — that by which Indra cut down the heroes of the Dasyus and the Asuras.

19.31.9 May the gods anoint me with radiance and milk; may both heaven and earth anoint me with radiance; may god Savitā bestow radiance upon me, may the wise sage Kaśyapa bestow radiance upon me.

19.31.10 May the waters bestow radiance upon me, may the plants bestow radiance upon me; let all beings, coming together, place radiance in my face.

19.31.11 Those that stand spread out in the east, like cows wandering on the road — the long-pepper plants, healers of wind-sickness, carrying one across.

19.31.12 You are the urine of Rudra, the navel of the immortal; you are established as a root in the earth — named Viṣāṇā, healer of wind-sickness.

19.31.13 May there be well-being for your kidneys, well-being for your liver, well-being for your spleen; may there be well-being for your ribs and marrow, may there be well-being for your body.

19.31.14 For the cruel thing has not reached your body, O Agni, the mortal; let the monkey, the brown one, sharpen its own point — like a cow its calf-membrane.

19.31.15 It roars together and apart like a storm, when the upper one gnaws the lower; crushing head with head, water with water, the brown one with the swift green ones flays the shoots.

19.31.16 The birds of good feather raised their voice upon the heavenly perch; the black, vigorous ones danced; when they lead down the expiation of the lower one, the many have placed their seed — sped by the sun.

19.32.1 With the Śāṃśapa-bhaga, together with the ally Indra, I make myself prosperous — let all enmities flee away.

19.32.2 The one that is blind, the one that flows again — the bhaga established in the trees; may the Śāṃśapa-bhaga be mine — let all enmities flee away.

19.32.3 As you overcame the trees together with the ally Indra, so make me prosperous — let all enmities flee away.

19.32.4 The blue-red one, born from around the Himālayas — the Kīśmīla demon born from the sky upon the plowed fields — I have driven it away.

19.32.5 Born from a cloud, born from the rain, born from around the sky, born from the ocean — the Kīśmīla we destroy.

19.32.6 You who are born from fog, you who are born from dew, you who are born from water — you who are the embryo of lightning, O Kīśmīla, be gracious to us.

19.32.7 These sand grains, brought from around the river, which cannot be counted — with those gathered grains I have driven away Yama's Kīśmīla.

19.32.8 By you, O Vibhīdaka tree, the Asuras were formerly defeated and slain; you who drive away rivals — shake off the enemies.

19.32.9 Let the Vibhīdaka split them apart like a bull with sharp horns; and may it subdue the rivals, and may it strike down those who show malice.

19.32.10 The overpowering one has cut through the rivals, has laid low those who hate me; it has prevailed over them, possessing prosperity on both sides.

19.32.11 The attacker, the counter-attacker, the mouse, the Kakubha-worm, the earthworm — the small creatures, the chirping ones — all of these we crush.

19.32.12 I bind shut the face, the mouth, of the mouse with Muñja grass — so that, unable to eat, it may go away from the plowed fields.

19.32.13 The mouse with bound mouth, thrust away, driven far off and repelled — I break its teeth; we knock out its two eyes.

19.32.14 O Aśvins, lords of the auspicious, anoint me with the honey of the bee, so that I may speak a speech full of radiance among the people.

19.32.15 I am glorious to the one who blinks, I am glorious to the one who beholds in return; I come here as glorious, and I am glorious there too.

19.32.16 To every being here, and to every one who sees — to all of them I am indeed glorious.

19.32.17 Push away, uncover whatever this is or is not; make the sight blind and impaired — do this to the eyes.

19.32.18 Having made the golden limb, the plow-handle, and the cataract — gods, take that away.

19.32.19 May my mind be possessed of sight, may my heart be possessed of sight; may my consciousness be possessed of sight, may my eye be possessed of sight — place sight in my two eyes.

19.33.1 Soma is king, and Savitā is king, Bhava is king, and the world is king; Śarva is king and Śarman is king — may those gods grant us shelter.

19.33.2 Bṛhaspati with the Ādityas, Bhaga together with Soma, the All-Gods, the wide atmosphere — may those gods grant us shelter.

19.33.3 Strike out the un-pierced one and also loosen the taut one; O All-Gods, O Maruts, do not direct your missile at us.

19.33.4 This is the flowing-down of waters, the resting place of the ocean; make our houses face away in the middle of the lake.

19.33.5 On your coming and on your going, may blossoming Dūrvā grass grow; or may a spring arise here, or a lotus-filled lake.

19.33.6 With the after-birth of snow, O house, we wrap you around; may you be for us a cool lake, may Agni grant the remedy.

19.33.7 This Darbha grass is free of anger, for one's own sake and for wandering; freed of anger it is the calmer of anger — may it be that for you.

19.33.8 This one with many roots goes down to the ocean; the Darbha grass established in the earth — may that be free of anger for you.

19.33.9 We lead away the path of your jaw, the path of your mouth; so that, being under my control and without protest, you may sit up near my mind.

19.33.10 With whatever bonds you are wrapped round and bound, fixed limb upon limb again and again — may they be unraveled for you, for the cut ones exist as cut; O Pūṣan, wiper-away, may he wipe away the sins of the embryo-slayer.

19.33.11 The gods wiped this off upon Trita; Trita wiped it off upon human beings; if it has not gotten away from you at the middle then I remove it from you by the sacred formula.

19.33.12 Enter the heat rays, enter the smoke along the wind, go to the lofty ones, or else to the mist; following the foam of rivers may that vanish away — O Pūṣan, wiper-away, may he wipe away the sins of the embryo-slayer.

19.33.13 O Agni, burn back the demon-brought thing that has been brought in pots; that one will go away unapproachable — this one has become able to live.

19.33.14 Whatever is claw-like, whatever is hoof-like, whatever sprouts, whatever is flower-like — the Urvā fish, the Madhūlaka plant: this one will drink of that, free of flux, free of disease.

19.33.15 The divine waters that flow from the ocean and from around the Himālayas — the waters that bring well-being to all — may those healing ones come here.

19.34.1 O fair one, with skin as thy covering and teeth as thy bedding, O wise one — as one pours abundance around a single cow in the pen, so have I poured radiance around thee.

19.34.2 Like the foremost of geese gazing ahead upon the path before — O tongue, do not tremble, do not falter; speak thou as thou hast spoken before.

19.34.3 Radiant may I rise, before the Brahmin and the Rājanya, before the Śūdra and the Ārya, and before whomsoever we desire, and before every one who sees.

19.34.4 Step forward with both feet turned hither; let thy mind be turned toward me hither. Let thy wrath, which was turned away from thee who now faces me, turn back.

19.34.5 O blessed goat-eating one, there is light here in front, darkness beyond. From this threshing-floor knowledge we turn thee back again hither.

19.34.6 As they gather rice together on the rice-threshing floor with flails, so I gather together thy scattered mind toward me.

19.34.7 Thou art the best of fragrant things, the middlemost of what is carried. By thee the bride exults; that splendour of thine do I take unto myself.

19.34.8 From the crown-born ones of thy crown, O unaged woman who has found her husband — I take the bull's sap from the head.

19.34.9 That sweetness which is in thy limbs and that love which is in thy heart — that we draw out from thee and cause to shine blazing in me.

19.34.10 Be swift as the wind, O steed; being yoked, go at Indra's urging, swift as thought. Let the divine Maruts yoke thee; let Tvaṣṭṛ place swiftness in thy feet.

19.34.11 That swiftness of thine, O steed, stored in the secret place, which moves in the eagle and which moves in the wind — with that, O steed, strong with strength, win the race, able to carry through to the finish.

19.34.12 Upon the seated one's mind, upon the seated one's eye — becoming like the wind of the one who is sitting, win the race, able to carry through to the finish.

19.34.13 Thy body, O steed, bearing thy frame, shall bestow bounty on us, comfort on thee. O unharmed one, the great gods for sustenance would make thee bend down like a heavenly light, like the sun.

19.34.14 May Indra, the Vṛtra-slayer who conquers the obstructer, carry me across unharmed. May he well guide for me the chariot, the charioteer, and the horses.

19.34.15 May Indra lead me by that path which is fearless and easy to travel. May he carry me across to the right; may I not be harmed in the meeting of combatants.

19.34.16 O heart's delight, bow down around us; make a complete circuit for the body. Ward off the feathered arrow and also the unfeathered one that wounds.

19.35.1 All gods, O Ādityas, honour this oblation. In this sacrifice do not waver; the oblation is made for immortality.

19.35.2 Both the narrow and the wide pit I open with my magic power. Drawing forth the sacred knowledge from both of them, then we perform the ritual acts.

19.35.3 From the vessel out of which we have drawn the Veda, into that same vessel we place it back again. By the might of the Brahman, with what has been offered and accomplished, may the gods protect me here with fervent power.

19.35.4 Vaiśvānara, the universal Agni, has engendered a fresh goodwill for us, growing great with the earth's strength.

19.35.5 O purifying one, O Agni Vaiśvānara, shine brilliantly for us, invoked with the Jamadagnins' oblations.

19.35.6 The great Agni Vaiśvānara shone upon the back of heaven; with his light he drives away the darkness.

19.35.7 The remedy has been brought from the head of the flying deer — that which is as blue-tinged as it is bright-gleaming; and that indeed destroys the hereditary disease.

19.35.8 Anumati approved; the bull's son approved. The ploughmen approved; the cows too approved.

19.35.9 Reverence to the stretching ones, to the fastened garment-cords, and to the heart. Reverence to the lord of the field; reverence to the lady of the field.

19.35.10 I inflame thine inmost heart, touching it over with the hand. O long-haired one, by thy bull-lust let thy testicles not wither like a head.

19.35.11 Let Agni heat thee; let the Sun heat thee; let the Wind yoke thee and the Maruts yoke thee. Let thy mind go after the wild deer, after the mirages.

19.35.12 I rouse thee up from languishing; I rouse thee up from the house. Do not touch upon sitting idle, O good one; stand up, go forward to the assembly.

19.35.13 Stir up the one who is slow to be stirred, and make her one who carries the torch, for her husband and for her father-in-law.

19.35.14 O Harāṃsayu, destroy utterly together, O seer, the vital essence and the knowledge that flow over the eyebrows.

19.35.15 Together with the rushing of the wind, together with the rays of the Sun, together uplifted with the Sun, we destroy the rival wife.

19.36.1 The long-tongued, loud-voiced ones by whom wet garments arise — the cows, mothers of ghee, have made a remedy in heaven.

19.36.2 The black one, mother by name, has flowed forth — the outgrowth of the bright ones. With the root of the divine sage I cut all those away.

19.36.3 I cut away the first of them; I cut away the middle one as well; and then I cut away the last of them entirely, like a tuft of hair.

19.36.4 Go away, O lord of the mind! Why dost thou proclaim ill-omened things? Depart — I desire thee not; roam among trees and forests.

19.36.5 What we have incurred through ill speech, through base speech, through hostile speech — what while waking, what while sleeping — may Agni place all misdeeds and all that is displeasing far away from us.

19.36.6 Whatever falsehood we practice, O Indra, O Brahmaṇaspati — may Pracetas the Āṅgirasa guard us from those who hate us.

19.36.7 Here make me supreme; overpower the one who makes battle against me. Drive away the sorcery from us; drive away the curses from us.

19.36.8 He who would shake us with his mind, and he who has pressed upon us with evil — the intention of that one, O gods, release the heart's thoughts.

19.36.9 Like a horse at the pole, difficult to yoke, I carry ten as a counter-draught. O Brahmaṇaspati, smite the sorcerer with both thy tusks.

19.36.10 Thou who art born above others, who hast grown up above the crown of the head — O rival-banisher, shake down the adversaries.

19.36.11 This one is mighty, enraged in conflict, pressed down upon the earth. With that I shall bring him to naught so that he shall go to the place of standing still.

19.36.12 He has come to a standstill, the great one without a domain; the one with cramped limbs falls at the standstill. Whoever is king of that inner standing-place — he shall go to the highest standing.

19.36.13 The king has gone to his abode; the Sun has gone to the sky. Rising, O Vṛtra-slayer, the spleen — the king of limbs, the slayer of men — has gone.

19.36.14 As a bypath merges into the great road, so do thou, O spleen, return to us whence thou hast come attacking.

19.36.15 The strength given by Indra — this from the Āsuras, Śitaṅga and from Śālvata too — to thee: let those two drive away the evil, unpleasing Kaṇvas; then be thou the house-lord of these houses.

19.36.16 Thou, O Agni, art the house-lord of the houses; thou art the begetter and giver of offspring. Do thou thrust away the evil, unpleasing Kaṇvas, always repelled, driven out hence, these sinful ones.

19.36.17 Having bound the cruel thing with hides, cause the fear of the deer. Drive the wild animals forward; destroy the mirages.

19.36.18 If thou art afflicted by Apsaras, if a demon has seized thee — for that I pour for thee an apaplava oblation with my mind.

19.37.1 With a hundred nooses and with a thousand nooses I bind your mind to me, as a fisherman binds a fish with his net.

19.37.2 I have taken your right foot, your heart. I have placed your foot in my lap — I have made you subject to my will.

19.37.3 Like a cow that has been tethered, I cause you to fall at my feet. That wind-charm, that binding-spell — it has been made to draw you in.

19.37.4 I lead your mind as a horse-tether leads a horse. I bind your mind to you as sandals are bound to the feet.

19.37.5 As surā (beer), as honey, as dice drawn to the gaming-board, as the mind of one longing for cattle — so let your mind turn toward me.

19.37.6 So make me your beloved; place me within your heart; so that, your mind undivided, you will not even speak of other women.

19.37.7 With this vaiṣṭapa oblation placed in the hands of Bhaga, we touch you — for good fortune and for well-being.

19.37.8 O Bhaga, unite me with her! Do not scorch her from behind or from beyond. And with that fortune which is Bhaga's own fortune, unite me with her, O Bhaga!

19.37.9 I unite you with Bhaga as the month unites with surā — so that you may be dear to your husband and favored by your brothers-in-law.

19.37.10 From here rises the divine word, shot like an arrow into the quiver. With it I shall conquer and drive away my rivals.

19.37.11 May Agni with the Vasus protect me from the east; may Savitṛ with the Ādityas protect me from the south; may Indra with the Maruts protect me from the west; may all the gods guard me from the north.

19.37.12 Protect me from the demon-rākṣasas; protect me from the human-rākṣasas; protect me from every rākṣasa.

19.37.13 That mountain yonder, the three-peaked one, which stands firm with its two horns — let it stand holding the swooping-winged, the upward-rushing one, as it holds balāsa disease.

19.37.14 The celestial Suparṇa (eagle) flies down, iron-fanged, iron-beaked. Let it drive away from here the swooping, the upward-rushing wasting disease.

19.37.15 Fly away together, O balāsa, with the jay and the kikidī bird; perish together with the rushing of the wind and with the nihākā.

19.38.1 Do not sing at the śābalī hound, the śauṇeya that draws well. We render homage to you with a good offering. With an undistracted eye — you, O śamakā, let śamayā calm you.

19.38.2 You who disfigure, who diminish beauty — you who devour together with a paramour as husband, guarding the house — O śamakā, let śamayā calm you.

19.38.3 Anoint yourself, smear yourself well — when anointed go to the calming. And seek cows for the ancestors with knowledge and with Bhaga. O śamakā, let śamayā calm you.

19.38.4 Go away, O evil of the mind; step further away! Beyond Nirṛti the eye looks out — the mind of the living is in many places.

19.38.5 They choose the auspicious boon; they yoke the auspicious dakṣiṇā; the eye of Vaivasvata is auspicious — the mind of the living is in many places.

19.38.6 Whatever flaw is in my mind and in my speech — whatever went to Sarasvatī driven by anger of thought — may Bṛhaspati, in accord with all the gods, bind that together again.

19.38.7 Thrive, thrive more greatly — thrive, O receivers! O hundred-handed one, gather in; O thousand-handed one, pour in abundantly.

19.38.8 Pour it in right here, pour it all in right here — let there be thriving in this place. Let this herb be prosperous, like the confluence of the ocean.

19.38.9 The tīrā plants have come up and gathered close; the great tīrā plants have arrived. As rivers after rain bring abundance here — let them bring thriving hither.

19.38.10 Let the pegs spread apart, like donkeys hard to yoke. Let all the threads become confused — the nāḍī tube wrapped around the loom-frame.

19.38.11 Let the shuttles fall forward; let the banks and the winding-spool fall forward. Let all the threads become confused in the blind stretched warp-yarn.

19.38.12 The āyavanī rod, the winding-spool, the pattern-stick, the spool, the shuttles — let all the threads become confused in the blind, stretched warp-yarn.

19.38.13 She who first makes the peacock-pattern — together with the spider and with śakā — the Kṛttikās, wives of the gods, have confused this thread.

19.38.14 Let Agni go first; let Bṛhaspati go before us. And then, O Bhaga, grant us your boon — for you are the giver of wealth.

19.38.15 May the śūdra and the ārya grant us bounty; may the king, even Vṛtrahā (Indra), grant us bounty; and may everything that has a self grant us the dakṣiṇā reward.

19.38.16 O seer, you stretch out the path of the sacrifice, shining upon the back of Ṛta. By which path you carry the oblation, O divine messenger — may the wise one be more glorious from here than from there.

19.38.17 Honey-handed, honey-tongued, honey-complexioned, honey-vowed, and honey-commanding — may Bhaga enrich me with radiance.

19.39.1 She who returns again three times seven, wearing many forms — may Vācaspati place the force of her weapon far away from me.

19.39.2 Driven back by the word from the kṛtyā, endowed with Indra's power, made to stay awake though asleep — driven back by the declaration of the simple one, let it turn back and strike the maker.

19.39.3 Inasmuch as you boast greatly and think 'I am the kṛtyā' — turning back and departing, you shall be slain like poison by poison.

19.39.4 Let the evil-proclaiming one pass beyond; let us not come together with him. May both Heaven and Earth protect us from distress.

19.39.5 O barley, drive away from us all hatreds with the barley oblation. Upon the neck of the one who has worked the kṛtyā with malevolent heart — release it back upon him.

19.39.6 Let one of you assist another; let each help the other. Like horses galloping forward — the plants that slay the kṛtyā, the plants that slay hostility.

19.39.7 Go not near the cattle, do not linger near them; follow the difficult passes of the roads. Let the rival wife perish from here; let her go far away from her home.

19.39.8 Whose name I take up, in whom the resting-and-pouring-in abides — from that far-off distance of the remote one, we cause the rival wife to be destroyed.

19.39.9 Beyond thirty-three mountains and beyond four hills — O Brahmaṇaspati, drive the rival wife away, along with her embryos.

19.39.10 Let the sea-faring Maruts exhilarate upward; let both Heaven and Earth rise up. Let the ocean's floods rush up against you; let this Agni burn you up.

19.39.11 Whatever radiance a rival wife has taken from that woman there — let that one be below as the disparager, while I am above.

19.39.12 I bind onto you this herb that drives away rival wives — so that this man may be your husband and become the father of your sons.

19.39.13 Whatever debts of mine persist in this world — the debts of Yama by whose force I move — of those, O Agni, I become free from debt; of those, O Agni, let this be the clearing.

19.39.14 Your seven downward slopes, and also your three, your downward courses, and those that turn toward us — the three luminous regions on this side, eightfold — may all these, O Agni, be of one mind with you. Knowing this, carry the usury down to Yama.

19.39.15 Your upward bodies, O Jātavedas, those that go crosswise and those that go along — yoked together with them, praised, O Agni — knowing this, carry the usury down to Yama.

19.40.1 Destroy the grey hair of the head; bring back that which is black. O herb, make it grow — render the hair yet blacker.

19.40.2 As is collyrium, so art thou; as is the three-peaked plant, so art thou. From that origin, from that assembly of thine — the dawns that shine forth, one after another.

19.40.3 Where it exists, where it stands, from where let it vanish — the sword-like thing: the divine eagle has declared this to be the remedy for grey hair.

19.40.4 From the vast sky, from the atmosphere, a drop of waters fell upon me for the sake of the sap. Unite me, O Agni, with vital power and with milk, through the sacrifices of the seers and through the deeds of the virtuous.

19.40.5 If that fruit fell from a tree, if it fell from the atmosphere, that too is but the wind. Where the body is untouched, where the garment is untouched — there Dissolution does not reach from beyond.

19.40.6 The ointment is fragrant, and so is the garment; bright is the gold upon it, purified. All the purifying strainers are spread over this one — let him live a hundred autumns; this is thine.

19.40.7 He who shatters the spine, who approaches with licking — all the jāyānya standing afar, and whatever jāyānya has taken refuge in the corners of the sky.

19.40.8 The jāyānya is a bird that flies and enters a man. I know thy name, O jāyānya — the place from which thou art born.

19.40.9 I know indeed thy name, the place from which thou, O jāyānya, art born. How then couldst thou strike there, if I were to make an oblation?

19.40.10 He who enters the mouth and makes the belly large — the disease that is born here, that jāyānya I have utterly destroyed.

19.40.11 From the ārohā plant my mouth is born; from the ārohā plant are my loins. From the ārohā plant I am wholly born — from the coupling of the bull.

19.40.12 Sweeter than liquor, more pleasing than salt — I am more desirable than the cows.

19.40.13 The great bull with the moist navel held thee back — thee, O wind. To thee, O divine Earth, I give the act of attraction; I take away thy dryness of mouth.

19.40.14 United in mind, united in good seed, let the two of us offer the oblation well to the gods. Let those whose portion this is delight in it. Let the two of us rise up together, undisturbed, with good fortune.

19.40.15 By that light by which the gods rose to heaven, by which the Ādityas, the Vasus, and the Rudras rose, by which the Aṅgirases ascended to the sun — by that let the two sacrificers rise up in well-being.

19.40.16 The odana-rice that Aditi cooked when desiring a son, by which Kaśyapa encompassed offspring — the odana that is cooked for all the gods: let our share in it be inexhaustible at the right time.

19.41.1 The breath of Soma blows from the east; from the south let the wind of Indra blow to us. From that direction which is the mother, which is the west — let that wind be auspicious to us here, O gods.

19.41.2 The breath of Mitra blows from the north; upward from Bṛhaspati let the wind blow. That wind which blows knowing the atmosphere — let that god be auspicious to us here.

19.41.3 He who blows from the north, he who blows from the east, he who blows from the south, and he who blows from the west — he who blows upward in those upper regions: let that god be auspicious to us here.

19.41.4 O Wind, thou blowest through three atmospheres; thou blowest through three remote distances. O thou of a thousand eyes, slayer of Vṛtra, guard us here; drive away the hereditary disease and blemish.

19.41.5 There no wife has gone in wretchedness, no one weeping and wailing in resistance, no one carrying a burden. Where Indra, the far-striding and discerning one, stands for us — let him grant us that great safety.

19.41.6 Let Indra confuse their army; let the Maruts smite them with might. By the blazing force of Agni and of Wind, scatter them in all directions and destroy them.

19.41.7 Neither heaven nor earth nor Aditi nor the wealth-winning power is theirs. Let Agni take away their sight; let them go back utterly defeated.

19.41.8 O Indra, smash the village of the enemies, the foe who comes against us intending to slay. Just as these are driven away by Indra — so let me turn the settlement with Agni's help.

19.41.9 Driven away by Indra, let them make their yoke go crooked; let them go by paths turned away, suffering harm. Conquering them, let us settle upon that, turning the settlement with Agni.

19.41.10 The village of the enemies, attacked and driven away by Indra — Agni splits it open. Let these warriors be worthy of praise, those for whom I proceed with oblation and clarified butter.

19.41.11 Aryaman, the auspicious god whom the maiden worshipped — let that god, the slayer of Vṛtra, release her from here and from that place.

19.41.12 O King Varuṇa, this kinswoman makes offering to thee. Bring to her a husband who is truly good and desirable.

19.41.13 O Lord of wealth, make him cry out with longing; make the suitor single-minded. Make everything turn to the right; bring her a husband who is desirable.

19.41.14 From the west and from the east, from the north and from below as well — full is the track of Bhaga; by it we turn this woman toward him, with glory and with good fortune.

19.41.15 There is no blood of the moth, of the woodpecker, or of the gnats; there is no collision of flight, no upward effort — the disease will be downcast and gone from here.

19.41.16 It slunk away footless; footless it departed; puffing with its snout it departed. The evil-cooker too has departed from here. The disease, once gone, will perish; piercing and swelling will likewise perish.

19.41.17 Just as the sun, rising, conceals the moon — so do thou, O mighty herb, conceal and drive this disease away from here.

19.42.1 It slunk away footless; footless it departed; puffing with its snout it departed. The evil-cooker too has departed from here. The disease, once gone, will perish; piercing and swelling will likewise perish.

19.42.2 Not on stone, not on what has stone, let not even a sliver of stone remain for thee. As much stone as there is of thy stone — so much is the residue of stone that is thine.

19.42.3 Just as water poured out from the top of the sacrificial post reaches the ground — so do thou, O sapless stone, having been poured out, reach the ground.

19.42.4 Thou art the thunderbolt, the slayer of rivals — with thee today I would overcome Vṛtra. Thee, O Lord of the forest, chief of trees, today we lift up for long life.

19.42.5 Thou, Indra, as our foremost priest, guard us from the demon on all sides. The cows have lowed in accord — in accord with the glory, O Bṛhaspati.

19.42.6 O Breath, protect breath; be gracious to the living soul for the sake of the breath of life. O Nirṛti, by thy dissolution, release us from the bonds.

19.42.7 O Hatsuka, bow around us; make a girding for our bodies. Keep away the arrow that carries leaf, and likewise the leafless one that wounds.

19.42.8 Let Prajāpati unite thee with offspring, with a son, with good fortune. Let destiny guide thee here; the desire of the brahmin impels — place a male within her by the impulsion of Savitṛ.

19.42.9 Let the boy creep forth from thee, from the curve, from above a man. According to the season, above the seasonable one — him whom Dhātṛ fashioned for thee.

19.42.10 Whom Dhātṛ fashioned for thee, whom Tvaṣṭṛ fashioned for thee, whom the brahmin power fashioned for thee — find that son; for his sake live thou to live.

19.42.11 The brilliant ones stand smeared with dust, the hotrī-priests of the sacrifice dripping with the stones. Whatever of Soma they pour down here — that is the form of the sacrificer yonder.

19.42.12 Those who, having abandoned the luster of the brahmin, clothe him with dust and dirt as his color — whatever of Soma they pour down here, that is the form of the sacrificer yonder.

19.42.13 Just as a well-appointed chariot without a charioteer, abandoning its left yoke-horse, goes on the course of demons — so the sacrifice forsakes the sacrificer when they lead the Soma-rite to those who drink Soma improperly.

19.42.14 The Vedic meters go away from the sacrificer when they lead the Soma-rite to those who drink Soma improperly. When a non-brahmin drinks the Soma — that is indeed a breach, to be covered over with the sacrificial fee.

19.42.15 Thou art the ruddy one, the swift one, the all-encompassing drink, first brought around for the gods. May the digger suffer no harm — nor he for whom we dig thee.

19.42.16 O gods, let us not reach evil; do not lead us by the path of evil. May I not wound the hand of my companion in my desire for wealth.

19.42.17 O gods, do not give me over; do not make me sick. May I not wound the head of my companion; may I not err.

19.43.1 My face is discerning, my eyes are sweet-glancing; through both my ears flows abundant hearing.

19.43.2 My tongue pours forth sweetness, my tongue speaks sweetly; with that tongue of mine today may I utter honeyed speech.

19.43.3 As the honey-makers gather honey upon honey, so today with metres may I utter honeyed speech.

19.43.4 Purified by the purifying filter of Vāyu, Soma is set in place face to face; he is the yokemate and friend of Indra.

19.43.5 Whatever transgression, O Varuṇa, mortals commit against the divine folk — if we have overstepped your ordinances in any way, do not injure us, O god, for that sin.

19.43.6 May the Waters as mothers refresh us; may the clarifying-with-ghee ones purify us with ghee. For the divine Waters carry away all defilement; I come forth pure and cleansed from them.

19.43.7 Both Mitra the sovereign and Varuṇa the king — may they share your portion at the morning pressing, O Agni. I too make my portion after theirs; O Bhaga, enter me endowed with solar splendour.

19.43.8 Enter us endowed with solar splendour, O all-knowing lord of the mind. Soma, ever-wakeful and blameless, and Indra, gladdened and praised by men.

19.43.9 May we, O Indra, share in your delight, in the brightness and radiance of the gleaming, thousand-fold glorious one — offspring and refreshment.

19.43.10 May Agni Vaiśvānara, maker of the path, lord of all peoples, guard us at the morning pressing; may that purifier establish wealth for us. May we be long-lived and share the portion together.

19.43.11 May all the gods, the Maruts, and Indra not forsake us at this second pressing. Speaking what is dear to them and long-lived, may we be in the good favour of the gods.

19.43.12 This third pressing of the seers, with which through cosmic order they set the cup in motion — the sons of Sudhanvan, having attained immortality, lead us toward well-offered sacrifice and better things.

19.43.13 May the rivers flow together, the winds blow together, the birds fly together. Strengthen this sacrifice, O praises; I offer with the jointly-flowing oblation.

19.43.14 Guard this sacrifice, O oblations, and also O confluent streams, guard this sacrifice. Strengthen this sacrifice, O praises; I offer with the jointly-flowing oblation.

19.43.15 Taking hold of every form and every age, I embrace it on all sides. May the four quarters strengthen this sacrifice; I offer with the jointly-flowing oblation.

19.44.1 The pot sewn together with the immortal gods has come to us; having placed the sister-pot upon me it stood firm. Truly the former seers, having lamented, may they fully extend the life of the lord of the sacrifice.

19.44.2 We have made the flowing pot free of disease — Tvaṣṭṛ, Vāyu, Earth, and Atmosphere. Whatever drips from it and is offered into the fire — let that be; misfortune shall not reach that from beyond.

19.44.3 This drop has dripped into the fire; misfortune shall not blow it away from beyond. Waxing strong through the oblation of Viśvāvasu, may this sacrifice go to the world of the well-doers.

19.44.4 You are the eagle of the Gāyatrī metre; I take hold of you after; carry me across to safety.

19.44.5 You are the sovereign of the Triṣṭubh metre; I take hold of you after; carry me across to safety.

19.44.6 You are the high note, you are the melody of the Jagatī metre; I take hold of you after; carry me across to safety.

19.44.7 O Trāyamāṇā, hand me over to the all-knowing one. O all-knowing one, protect all our bipeds and quadrupeds and whatever is ours.

19.44.8 O all-knowing one, hand me over to the all-seeing one. O all-seeing one, protect all our bipeds and quadrupeds and whatever is ours.

19.44.9 O all-seeing one, hand me over to the auspicious one. O auspicious one, protect all our bipeds and quadrupeds and whatever is ours.

19.44.10 O auspicious one, hand me over to Trāyamāṇā. O Trāyamāṇā, protect all our bipeds and quadrupeds and whatever is ours.

19.44.11 Dig out, break apart, destroy — move here freely without harm being done. Let me be united with life-span; let life-span be united with me.

19.44.12 Dig out, break apart, destroy — move here freely without harm being done. Let me be united with brilliance; let brilliance be united with me.

19.44.13 Dig out, break apart, destroy — move here freely without harm being done. Let me be united with radiant energy; let radiant energy be united with me.

19.44.14 Dig out, break apart, destroy — move here freely without harm being done. Let me be united with offspring; let offspring be united with me.

19.44.15 Dig out, break apart, destroy — move here freely without harm being done. Let me be united with cattle; let cattle be united with me.

19.44.16 You are the seed of heaven, the navel of earth. You are the navel; make me the navel.

19.44.17 You are the seed of heaven, the power of earth. You are power; let the act be done for your power.

19.44.18 You are the seed of heaven, the wealth of earth. You are wealth; let the act be done for your wealth.

19.44.19 You are the seed of heaven, the nourishment of earth. You are nourishment; let the act be done for your nourishment.

19.44.20 You are the seed of heaven, the prosperity of earth. You are prosperity; let the act be done for your prosperity. You are prosperity, you are what has come to be; may I become fully prosperous.

19.44.21 You are the bright one, you are the resplendent one. Just as you are resplendent with resplendence, so may I shine with resplendence.

19.44.22 Evening after evening Agni is the lord of our house; morning after morning the giver of benevolence. O wealth-treasury, be rich upon rich; kindling you, may we nourish the body.

19.44.23 Morning after morning Agni is the lord of our house; evening after evening the giver of benevolence. O wealth-treasury, be rich upon rich; kindling you, may we prosper a hundred winters.

19.44.24 He who openly curses us, he who steals — and a rival who acts with intentional wrath — may divine Agni release those bonds; may Varuṇa, firm in his ordinances, drive curses away.

19.45.1 Send forth speech to Agni, the bull of the settlements; may he carry us across beyond our enemies.

19.45.2 He who shines through all things from a far, far distance — may he carry us across beyond our enemies.

19.45.3 Agni who crushes the demons with his bright flame — may he carry us across beyond our enemies.

19.45.4 He who looks out over all the worlds and sees them together — may he carry us across beyond our enemies.

19.45.5 The winds blow sweet to the righteous one; the rivers pour forth sweetness; may the cows be sweet-giving for us.

19.45.6 The night is sweet, and so too the dawns; sweet is the earthly atmosphere; may the plants be sweet for us.

19.45.7 May the lord of the forest be sweet for us; may the sun be sweet; may heaven, our father, be sweet.

19.45.8 For you, O Waters, are the sources of well-being — grant us strength for great joy and seeing.

19.45.9 Of that most auspicious essence of yours, grant us a share here, like eager mothers.

19.45.10 For that we are ready for you, for whose dwelling you invigorate; O Waters, regenerate us too.

19.45.11 This speckled cow has stepped forward and sat down again upon the mother; and at the dawning she meets the father.

19.45.12 From its in-breath comes the out-breath; the luminous one moves within; the great bull has revealed the sky.

19.45.13 Thirty realms shine out; Speech has clung to the bird; it responds at each dwelling, day after day with its brilliances.

19.45.14 When the mighty ones mounted upon Speech, seeking to win the atmosphere, the bull-gods made themselves glad together.

19.45.15 Standing upon Speech, the mighty one has released wide-ranging speech; the great bulls made themselves glad in the sky.

19.45.16 The mighty one has released Speech; it shines out maintaining the abodes. The barhis grass of Vimada has spread forth.

19.46.1 You are firm, you are a support, unassailed, well-held by Viśvakarman. May the ocean not uproot you; may the eagle not—unshaken one, strengthen this.

19.46.2 You are unconquered, you are overpowering; overpower the enemy, overpower the one who marshals troops. You are of a thousand-fold heroic strength—with that, quicken this one.

19.46.3 You came into being from the waters and from the essence of the earth; you arose above Viśvakarman. Tvaṣṭṛ proceeds, assigning your form; knowing that divine origin of yours, he was first.

19.46.4 Sixty and ninety snares are spread between the Adhvaryu-priest and Agni the Hotṛ. They ensnare the simple man; the wise one passes beyond, and follows the path of cosmic order.

19.46.5 The Adhvaryu who, knowing the seven priestly offices, sacrifices in precedence of the Hotṛ and kindles the fire—he elevates the sacrifice and makes the offering non-violent; he who understands the distribution of the oblation.

19.46.6 Here, O distributor, in the distribution of the oblation, let him not exclude the one entitled to a share, let him not harm him. Let not one known as shareless be deluded.

19.46.7 May the wind blow the healing herb, the auspicious and bliss-bringing one, to our heart. May it carry our life-spans across to safety.

19.46.8 O Wind, you are our father, you are our brother, and you are our friend. Make us to live.

19.46.9 Whatever healing remedy is stored in secret in your house up there, O Wind—give us of that to live.

19.46.10 O Dream, you are neither living nor dead among the gods; you carry immortality within you. Varuṇānī is your mother, Yama is your father.

19.46.11 As they settle a fraction, as they settle a hoof-debt, as they settle a debt—so do we today settle all evil dreaming into the inauspicious one.

19.46.12 You are called Araru—thus do we know you, O Dream. O Dream, establish good dreaming for us.

19.46.13 The gods do not eat the oblation of this one before all others; he is excluded from the world of the well-doers. He himself has cultivated an evil mind—for he is a malefactor dwelling among humans.

19.46.14 He who has slain his mother, slain his father, slain his sister, and those other evildoers—their defilement was wiped off on the two prescribed ones, as men wipe off filth.

19.46.15 This very one the gods drove out—the slayer of the embryo reaches that world. Not for your ritual act with oblation does one who is implored receive a kingdom; these mighty ones sever the snare.

19.47.1 That serpent which glides here as the ākhū, as the vyūkha, making a rustling sound—against it you are the encircling medicine, the crusher of scorpions.

19.47.2 The peacock eats the scorpion; we eat the peacock. Against it you are the encircling medicine, the crusher of scorpions.

19.47.3 The waters are indeed the healers; the waters drive away disease. The waters are the healer of everything; the waters crush the scorpion.

19.47.4 You, O Agni, are the guardian of vows, O god, both among the immortals and among mortals. You are to be praised at the sacrifices.

19.47.5 Whatever vows of yours we have transgressed, O gods—we who know less than those who know—may Agni, the all-knowing one who has entered into the Soma and the Brāhmaṇas, make that whole again.

19.47.6 We have come upon the path of the gods; whatever we are able to convey along it—may Agni the all-knowing one sacrifice; he alone is the Hotṛ; he conducts the offering and appoints the seasonal rites.

19.47.7 Rouse up the possessive woman, drive her away like one with a bad dwelling, like one with a bad foot. Fly her mind away from the everlasting seasons.

19.47.8 Make her fly away like cooked meat before a sword, like a bird in flight. Make the deer fly away in pursuit; destroy her mirage-desires.

19.47.9 Turn the two cows in opposite directions; turn the two yoked ones in opposite directions. May yonder sun on high turn the two of you asunder in opposite directions.

19.47.10 Violent is the poison, firm is the poison, great is the greatness of the poison. The poison made the enemy's head fly apart into a hundred pieces.

19.47.11 Burn them together as a cattle-pen, as the earth rolls forth its wealth. Whomever you creep into, O poison, burn him up as fire does.

19.47.12 Seize hold of the flesh, shake off the body-hairs. Sow dust into the vertebrae; cut them apart; torment the one who lies with feet upward.

19.47.13 I am sweeter than honey, sweeter than the honey-pourer, more full of sweetness. Honey in my mouth indeed—a sweet abode has been made there.

19.47.14 You gaze upon me alone, like a deer thirsting for water. Speak up to me from beneath my feet, like a frog from a cow's hoof-print.

19.47.15 Speak up to me from beneath my feet, like a frog from a cow's hoof-print. And then, to sit and wait yonder—like a bound dog that has been struck.

19.48.1 Proclaim a plentiful cow-pen, rich in good heroes, rich in many men—so that from here they may not perish. Thus proclaim my cow-pen.

19.48.2 Proclaim, O lord of the daughter; proclaim, O brother-in-law. The buttocks of those without heroes have risen up behind you—slay the kiṣkindhā folk.

19.48.3 When the owl calls out, that is futile; when the dove makes a step in the fire—to that Yama who has listened with attentive ears, the poet, the praiseworthy one, let there be homage today.

19.48.4 The snares that belong to Indra and those that belong to Varuṇa—may the goddess Nirṛti place them far from us.

19.48.5 The snares that belong to Vaiśvānara and those that belong to the Maruts—may the goddess Nirṛti place them far from us.

19.48.6 The snares that belong to the Viśvedevas and those that belong to Viśvakarman—may the goddess Nirṛti place them far from us.

19.48.7 Among Nārada, the gambler, Varuṇa, and Soma, they sought the great majesty. Viśvakarman found it in the ocean; I place the weeping of dice into this one.

19.48.8 Whatever mind has entered into your hands and into your eyes—with a springing motion, with the weeping-curse I make that weep in his joints.

19.48.9 Three divine Apsarases—one by one, each alone, each going on the path of the departed—the name of one of them is told. May the Apsarases, enjoying the clarified butter, go forth together mightily—svāhā.

19.48.10 I have overcome you with the mind; I have overcome you with the heart. I have overcome you with all my limbs—for thus the abandonment-spell has been performed.

19.48.11 You women who rejoice to greet the man who pursues you—all of you, gather together and declare: in the sharpening-rite, the abandonment has been performed.

19.48.12 Heaven and Earth have established abandonment for me; the god Savitṛ and Bṛhaspati have established abandonment. And Agni and Sūrya—in the sharpening-rite, the abandonment has been performed for you.

19.48.13 From the sky, from the earth, from the wind, from the rivers—Indra brought the saṃskanda plant together. It came here; it has come to this place.

19.48.14 Saṃskanda-strength, with its strength—the name has been assigned to you by the gods. Your name is golden-name; you are the Saṃskanda herb.

19.48.15 The ocean is united with the rivers; both heaven and earth are united. Wife and husband are united in the womb—you are the Saṃskanda herb.

19.48.16 We breathe together the skull-plates of your head, we breathe together the womb, the two saṃgavinī veins. We breathe all your limbs together—we breathe them together through the Skanda-herb.

19.48.17 O Dhātṛ, establish splendor in me; through splendor make me a lord. May Indra, the bountiful one who rules over the people, lead me with fame.

19.48.18 May that great Indra-power reside in me, and skill and resolve in me. May the hot-milk vessel shine forth three times in me; may I win the milk of it—of the Gāyatrī meter, of the Virāj-light.

19.48.19 The two who dwell in the Arka plant's abode, the two poets Mātariśvan—Yama and the Aṅgirases: may the gods make me glorious, possessed of fame—svāhā.

19.49.1 We merchants call upon Indra; may he come before us as our knowing protector. Slaying the grudging foe who lurks along the path like a beast, may he who is sovereign be the giver of wealth to me.

19.49.2 May our trading thrive, our selling, and our resale; may the counter-trade make us wealthy. May the gods, rejoicing together, accept the oblation; may our going forth and our return be auspicious.

19.49.3 When I go about trading and counter-trading, seeking wealth through my own means, O gods — may Indra, Bṛhaspati, Savitā, Soma, and Agni place brilliance in that enterprise for me.

19.49.4 The many god-traveled paths of yours that pass along heaven and earth — upon those I place myself in radiance, so that having purchased goods I may carry wealth home.

19.49.5 The nooses of Nirṛti that have been fastened to the tattered garment — from those the one who wears armor is freed, as he approaches, laying the joint-evil to rest.

19.49.6 That is truly no garment in which they pierce a man; the form is smeared together with blood. Therefore that must be stripped off.

19.49.7 Rising up, the unknowing one became disliked, one who was to share in much. He does not attain a good path, he who travels along with that one.

19.49.8 This, to be received by a brahmin — through it he makes that auspicious. Through it the giver is freed from the noose of the arka plant and sees clearly.

19.49.9 Those two teeth, like two descended tigers pointing downward, that seek to devour both the father and the mother — those two teeth, O Bṛhaspati, O Jātavedas, make auspicious here through the sacred word.

19.49.10 Eat the rice, eat the barley, eat the black beans, and also the sesame. That is your portion laid out as the holding of a jewel — harm not the father and the mother.

19.49.11 Non-fierce, yoked together, in agreement, gentle — be these teeth of good omen. Harm not the father and the mother; let what is terrible in your nature be elsewhere.

19.49.12 By this let Indra and Agni be yoked, together with King Soma the ally. May Indra, attended by the Maruts, make the seizure against my enemies for me.

19.49.13 I have performed this seizure, sharpened by Indra through austerity. Wherever my enemies are, those who hate me — I seize them.

19.49.14 With seizing and with binding we crush the enemies. Their out-breaths and their in-breaths — their vital forces one by one I have cut off.

19.49.15 Svāhā to the swift-rushing one, the one accompanied by Maruts!

19.49.16 Svāhā to the victory-hero, the one who overwhelms his foes!

19.49.17 Svāhā to Bṛhaspati, who has all the gods with him!

19.50.1 Heaven stirs forth, earth stirs forth, the mid-space stirs forth, each into its own realm. Forward — the oceanic waters have shaken the thorn loose.

19.50.2 May the wind shake you forth, may the earth with its might. Forward — the oceanic waters have shaken the thorn loose.

19.50.3 May the sun shake you forth, together with the nourishing lunar mansions. Forward — the oceanic waters have shaken the thorn loose.

19.50.4 The amulet pautudruva that has come to me, the universal medicine — may it strike away from us all evil dreaming and whatever darkness there is.

19.50.5 Away from us all evil dreaming, and away the evil omen. Now, O amulet, make me always golden-splendored.

19.50.6 Always let me be one possessed of fortune, full of vigor, capable of enduring all. The pautudruva amulet that has mounted me together with wealth, has mounted together with Indra.

19.50.7 A male horse, wealth, property; a male golden ornament — O herb, place a male son in this woman.

19.50.8 Just as when a male is born there is rejoicing and no one says a word against it — in just that way, O herb, place a son in this woman.

19.50.9 You, O herb, are purchased with a horse, with an antelope, with a cow. A white horse is your wealth, gold and greenery are yours. Given by King Soma, be here an agent of male offspring.

19.50.10 Whatever manly strength, wealth, sacred lore, and whatever learning and jewel I bear — may the guardian of the deposit protect this here for us while I go traversing the womens' way beyond.

19.50.11 Whatever manly strength, wealth, sacred knowledge, and whatever bold fires belong to me — may Hariścandra protect that here for us while I go beyond, having traveled through the village.

19.50.12 Here I go, having traveled beyond the village, toward manly strength, wealth, and sacred lore. Whatever is pure here in you — this I take to myself.

19.50.13 For indeed the Sun yoked first the thousand dappled ones for slaying the dasyu, O powerful and bounteous one; subduing the dāsa color for the Ārya, yoking the two arms and the vajra, O much-invoked one.

19.50.14 Come swiftly for the slaying of the dasyu; O Indra, shatter their strong joints. Being fierce of purpose and faith, those who are unyoked — smash many of them together with the stroke.

19.50.15 For now they have seen Indra, of bright purifying might, many falling together like arrows. Those who battle against our bold and bounteous one — fearlessly the wise ones have turned against them.

19.51.1 To the current year, to the passing year, to the full year — we make known this. Whatever wrongdoing we have fallen into in our vows, by that fault of evil-heartedness we have become besmirched.

19.51.2 O lord of vows, whatever vow of mine has gone astray — may day and night together settle this for me. May the moon, rising in the east, be the healer; may the sun with his rays approve this.

19.51.3 Whatever vow I have transgressed by thought, by mind, by heart — may the Ādityas, the Rudras, and the Vasus kindle that aright in me.

19.51.4 I bring the vows to Agni, the lord of vows. May he make for me great brilliance, vast fame, and long life.

19.51.5 May the well-being-bringing wind blow upon us; may the radiant, vigor-bearing herbs come nigh. O Rudra, grant bliss to the footed creature — the fat-filled, life-giving, well-being-bringing ones — for his refuge.

19.51.6 Those cows of one form, of all forms, of equal form — those whose birth and udder Agni knows — those that the Aṅgirasas made here for austerity: to them may Parjanya extend great shelter.

19.51.7 Those cows that have spread their bodies among the gods, whose forms and names Soma knows — may those, swelling in numbers, rich in offspring, be pointed out for us, O Indra, in the cowpen.

19.51.8 Prajāpati, delighting in me, has driven many true ones here into my cowpen. May we dwell together with their offspring, living long through many autumns.

19.51.9 Mounted and churning about is the tawny one, the much-churner. The grain-smut was born from the straw-chaff, from rice, from black beans, and also from barley.

19.51.10 Just as the rump of the straw-chaff does not come together in the grain-smut — in just that way, O plow-attendant, drive the grain-smut out from the villages, drive it out to the directions.

19.51.11 Just as a donkey, of contracted appearance, breaks wind at its neighbor — in just that way let your rump fart, O straw-chaff leaf; O Vṛtra-slayer, O Śāki, make it fart.

19.51.12 Pointed like a spike, pleasant, thirsty for Soma — the plow draws up the fat cow, the ewe, the spirited mare, and the draft animal of the chariot.

19.51.13 Draw taut the harness for good fortune; brandish the goad for good fortune. Strike the right side of the yoked draft animal with the goad for good fortune.

19.51.14 Hold down the honey-sweet plowshare in the fields at all times; may Parjanya rain upon it for abundance, to make the grain.

19.51.15 These very ones were seen coming toward the vedi. Agni sent forward the offering to the gods; the sacred formula is the hotr, the lord of oblations.

19.51.16 These well-being-bringing ones have come, bearing udders full of sweetness. Learn from those that are milking inexhaustible milk.

19.51.17 You are the iḍā offerings, honey-mixed, of all forms — enter me, together with breath, with radiance, with ardor, with strength.

19.52.1 The bright cloud of the sky, milking out its waters — it is the navel of cosmic order (ṛta), and it reveals the immortal nectar.

19.52.2 Milking out clarified butter drunk in from all sides, milking out nourishing strength unceasingly — may the pious worship her with their offerings.

19.52.3 Seek the ghee in this swelling womb; approach it! Those libations you have made while living — may they drip with sweetness for you.

19.52.4 May the essences of plants and their powers bow together toward me. I have followed the hand of the earth, full of strength and full of sap.

19.52.5 You are the guide of the path of the hand; you are the guide. Thus do we lead away all evil dreams around the post.

19.52.6 May my field be rich in sap; may my grain too be rich in sap. My agriculture shall be full of sap — may I myself be full of sap.

19.52.7 I bring a white offering to Agni the powerful, the mighty, the finder of the heavenly light, the radiant one. May he make us firm and strong, and grant that we live long.

19.52.8 I know your name, O Agni — you are named through the waters; you are the triple-shielded one. May the threefold nourishment, the threefold sacrifice, attend us.

19.52.9 Growing strong on the milk of Prajāpati, long-lived and radiant with splendor — may we who live long sit down near you.

19.52.10 Those two wide-nostriled, life-consuming, ficus-dark messengers of Yama who roam among men — I know them; the sun knows them. What are these two? What will they do?

19.52.11 No deceiver has beguiled me; I am not to be overcome by the deceitful; I am not naive by birth, nor a disciple still learning. I am the conqueror, the all-conqueror, the vanquisher of armies, the knower of heaven — I am all this universe of beings.

19.52.12 He has stood up, he has risen, the inspired sage was born; he measured out the breadth of the earth. He took his seat as sovereign over all the worlds; he knows by insight the ordinances of Varuṇa.

19.52.13 Prajāpati is rich in offspring; he is rich in offspring — may he make me rich in offspring.

19.52.14 The sun is full of radiant splendor; he is full of splendor — may he make me full of splendor.

19.52.15 Soma is full of milky sap; he is full of sap — may he make me full of sap.

19.52.16 Thirty testicles has the kābava plant; ten testicles the owl-plant has. Four are yours, O muddy one.

19.52.17 O fierce-shining one, cut them off at the root! You are demonic by birth — we drive that away from here.

19.52.18 You are born of Indra, born of Soma — we send that away from here. O wide fish of sweet waters, you guard its passage — free from discharge, free from disease.

19.53.1 You are swift and you are nimble. You are the kindling-wood of Prajāpati, hairy in name, called Saṃsiti. Prajāpati, desiring to become established through you, rose up and became established. Just as Prajāpati, desiring to become established through you, became established, even so may I, desiring to become established through you, become established. May good fortune come to me; may the students of sacred knowledge come to me. Svāhā!

19.53.2 You are prosperity and you are firm establishment. [Prajāpati, desiring to become established through you, rose up and became established. Just as Prajāpati desiring to become established through you became established, even so may I become established. May good fortune come to me; may the students of sacred knowledge] come to me. Svāhā!

19.53.3 You are sleeplessness and you are restlessness. [Prajāpati... may the students of sacred knowledge] come to me. Svāhā!

19.53.4 You are brilliance and you are a wondrous being. [Prajāpati... may the students of sacred knowledge] come to me. Svāhā!

19.53.5 You are fame and you are glory. [Prajāpati... may the students of sacred knowledge] come to me. Svāhā!

19.53.6 You are water and you are greatness. [Prajāpati... may the students of sacred knowledge] come to me. Svāhā!

19.53.7 You are food and you are the eating of food. [Prajāpati... may the students of sacred knowledge] come to me. Svāhā!

19.53.8 You are the one that proffers and the one that bestows freely. [Prajāpati... may the students of sacred knowledge] come to me. Svāhā!

19.53.9 You are the fulfiller of desires and the milker of desires. [Prajāpati... may the students of sacred knowledge] come to me. Svāhā!

19.53.10 You are the one that brings and the one that gathers together. [Prajāpati... may the students of sacred knowledge] come to me. Svāhā!

19.53.11 You are the one that points the way and the one that points it forth. [Prajāpati... may the students of sacred knowledge] come to me. Svāhā!

19.53.12 You are approval and you are the one who grants approval. [Prajāpati... may the students of sacred knowledge] come to me. Svāhā!

19.53.13 You are conquest and you are victory. [Prajāpati... may the students of sacred knowledge] come to me. Svāhā!

19.53.14 You are complete conquest and you are what is won by joining together. [Prajāpati... may the students of sacred knowledge] come to me. Svāhā!

19.53.15 Agni is the lord of the earth; may Soma protect you. We know you; know us. You are the overlord — make me the overlord of cattle, horses, men, students of sacred knowledge, of prosperity and the eating of food.

19.53.16 Vāyu is the lord of the atmosphere; [may Soma protect you. We know you; know us. You are the overlord — make me the overlord of cattle, horses, men, students of sacred knowledge, of prosperity and the eating] of food.

19.53.17 The sun is the lord of the sky; may Soma protect you. We know you; know us. You are the overlord — make me the overlord of cattle, horses, men, students of sacred knowledge, of prosperity and the eating of food.

19.53.18 O Vasu who finds — may the Vasus find for me: houses, progeny, cattle, wealth, prosperity, and firm establishment.

19.53.19 O Vasu who brings hither — may there come to me: houses, progeny, cattle, wealth, prosperity, and firm establishment.

19.53.20 O Vasus who unite — may there come together to me: houses, progeny, cattle, wealth, prosperity, and firm establishment.

19.53.21 You are conquest — may I conquer; may I conquer the earthly armies.

19.53.22 You are victory — may I be victorious; may I conquer the human armies.

19.53.23 You are complete conquest — may I conquer completely; may I conquer all armies.

19.54.1 Awaken him, fully awaken him; do not think him fit for sleeping. Let him stand upright, thinking only of me — let him not even mention other women.

19.54.2 Turn him toward me, turn him back, bring him around fully — do this. With the god of love, we conquer all his thoughts.

19.54.3 The Maruts heat up love-longing in the kindled Jātavedas. May his mind fly upward and come to rest in me.

19.54.4 O lord of the troop, make me lord of the troop; do not take me away from it like barley.

19.54.5 O one who is joined to the troop, join me to the troop; do not cut me off from it.

19.54.6 O one who has a troop, make me one who has a troop; may I not be lost from it.

19.54.7 O increaser of the troop, increase my troop of cattle, horses, men, students of sacred knowledge, of prosperity and the eating of food.

19.54.8 O abundant increaser of the troop, increase my troop abundantly — [cattle, horses, men, students of sacred knowledge, of prosperity and the eating] of food.

19.54.9 O great increaser of the troop, greatly increase my troop of cattle, horses, men, students of sacred knowledge, of prosperity and the eating of food.

19.54.10 Whatever poison is dug up and whatever is not dug up — all that poison is rendered tasteless.

19.54.11 Whatever poison is ground up and whatever is not ground up — all that poison is rendered tasteless.

19.54.12 Whatever poison is smeared on and whatever is not smeared on — all that poison is rendered tasteless.

19.54.13 As a she-wolf whose cubs have been devoured, or a tigress, would become frenzied with distress — even so become frenzied, sent by my anxious longing.

19.54.14 As the blazing tuft of autumn grass would be set wildly afire — even so become wildly agitated, sent by my anxious longing.

19.54.15 Cause him to cry out, become frenzied; wither with desire for me. Sent by my anxious longing.

19.55.1 In whose two powers all this universe is fixed — the existent and the moving, the blinking and the stirring — let those two seize the speaker here as witness; may he not sleep wrongly in this place, O Prajāpati.

19.55.2 Whoever would rob me as I speak — with heart, with speech, with speech, with ear, with mind — let divine Indra, Varuṇa, Bṛhaspati, the lordly god, come upon him, and Death, so that he may not live to see the third dawn.

19.55.3 Whoever would rob me, thinking himself learned in sacred lore, though I am thus the knower, the Pramati among thinkers — let divine Indra, Varuṇa, Bṛhaspati, the lordly god, come upon him, and Death, so that he may not live to see the third dawn.

19.55.4 I lay back his very breath upon him with a blow turned inward — do not give recognition to the one who would rob me. Let him cut off his own life-span as with an axe upon a tree, so that he may not live to see the third dawn.

19.55.5 Of that Speech whose one syllable stands beyond thousands, and whose branches are ten thousand — let whoever would rob me as I speak in the assembly of that Speech now come to distress.

19.55.6 Dawn kindled the Sun; kindled by Dawn he rose; rising, he shone upon the creatures; he smote away darkness; he gained the eating of food. When darkness is smitten, he becomes an eater of food — whoever knows this.

19.55.7 Wind kindled Fire; kindled by Wind he blazed; he flamed up; he smote away darkness; he gained the eating of food. When darkness is smitten, he becomes an eater of food — whoever knows this.

19.55.8 The mind-formed one kindled the Brahmin student; kindled, he dwelt in brahmacarya; he spoke the Veda in succession; he smote away darkness; he gained the eating of food. When darkness is smitten, he becomes an eater of food — whoever knows this.

19.55.9 By the oblation, O Prajāpati, I surround this husband and wife for their flourishing and extension. Bestow upon them abundance of wealth, O Savitṛ; grant them death in old age, both fully heroic.

19.55.10 May this oblation go forth increasing the husband and wife — rich in offspring, rich in cattle, of fine heroism. Bestow upon them abundance of wealth, O Savitṛ; grant them death in old age, both fully heroic.

19.55.11 I pour this oblation rich in cattle, rich in livestock, rich in horses for the husband and wife. Bestow upon them abundance of wealth, O Savitṛ; grant them death in old age, both fully heroic.

19.55.12 You are life-giving; may I live; may I live out my full lifespan.

19.55.13 You are sustaining life; may I live upon it; may I live out my full lifespan.

19.55.14 You are conjointly life-giving; may I live altogether; may I live out my full lifespan.

19.55.15 You are the vital ones; may I live; may I live out my full lifespan.

19.55.16 You are the intention of Prajāpati, a thousandfold nourishment. Through the intention of Prajāpati, through the thousandfold nourishment, may I nourish a thousand cattle.

19.55.17 You are the intention of Bṛhaspati, a thousandfold nourishment. Through the intention of Bṛhaspati, through the thousandfold nourishment, may I nourish a thousand cattle.

19.55.18 You are the intention of Brahman, a thousandfold nourishment. Through the intention of Brahman, through the thousandfold nourishment, may I nourish a thousand cattle.

19.56.1 You are Virāj; make me brilliant as Virāj. Of you who are such, may I partake of the glory.

19.56.2 You are Svarāj; make me self-sovereign as Svarāj. Of you who are such, may I partake of the sweetness.

19.56.3 You are Samrāj; make me universally sovereign as Samrāj. Of you who are such, may I partake of the food.

19.56.4 I pour for you the oblation rich in vitality — for life, not for death. I have brought you good strength and fortune; I drive away disease.

19.56.5 I pour for you the oblation rich in heroic offspring — for life, not for death. I have brought you good strength and fortune; I drive away disease.

19.56.6 I pour for you the oblation rich in fine heroes — for life, not for death. I have brought you good strength and fortune; I drive away disease.

19.56.7 I pour for you the oblation rich in all heroes — for life, not for death. I have brought you good strength and fortune; I drive away disease.

19.56.8 I pour for you the oblation rich in offspring — receive the embryo in the womb. May it be born again in due time, in the tenth month for delivery.

19.56.9 I pour for you the oblation rich in good offspring — receive the embryo in the womb. May it be born again in due time, in the tenth month for delivery.

19.56.10 I pour for you the oblation rich in fine sons — receive the embryo in the womb. May it be born again in due time, in the tenth month for delivery.

19.56.11 I pour for you the oblation for prosperity — O gods, direct your blessing toward this one. May the cattle enter into him, both the four-footed and those that are two-footed.

19.56.12 I pour for you the oblation for wealth — O gods, direct your blessing toward this one. May the cattle enter into him, both the four-footed and those that are two-footed.

19.56.13 I pour for you the oblation with good increase — O gods, direct your blessing toward this one. May the cattle enter into him, both the four-footed and those that are two-footed.

19.56.14 I pour for you the oblation with complete prosperity — O gods, direct your blessing toward this one. May the cattle enter into him, both the four-footed and those that are two-footed.

19.56.15 I pour for you the oblation for peaceful security; may you be settled in security with cattle and heroes. May Indra and Agni, yoked together as companions, together bestow you along with all the gods.

19.56.16 I pour for you the oblation with firm establishment; may you stand firm with cattle and heroes. May Indra and Agni, yoked together as companions, together bestow you along with all the gods.

19.56.17 I pour for you the oblation with complete becoming; may you come together fully with cattle and heroes. May Indra and Agni, yoked together as companions, together bestow you along with all the gods.

19.56.18 I pour for you the oblation with abundant being; may you excel with cattle and heroes. May Indra and Agni, yoked together as companions, together bestow you along with all the gods.