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1. The bráhman that was first born of old ( purástāt; in the east?) Vena hath unclosed from the well-shining edge ( s…
1. He who is soul-giving, strength-giving; of whom all, of whom [even] the gods, wait upon the instruction; who is lo…
1. Up from here have stridden three—tiger, man ( púruṣa ), wolf; since hey! go the rivers, hey! the divine forest-tre…
1. Thee that the Gandharva dug for Varuṇa whose virility (? -bhráj ) was dead, thee here do we dig, a penis-erecting …
1. The thousand-horned bull that came up from the ocean—with him, the powerful one, do we put the people to sleep. 2.…
1. The Brahman was born first, with ten heads, with ten mouths; he first drank the soma; he made the poison sapless. …
1. This water ( vā́r ) shall ward off ( vāray- ) upon the Varaṇāvatī; an on-pouring of ambrosia ( amṛ́ta ) is there; …
1. The being ( bhūtá ) sets milk in beings; he has become the overlord of beings; Death attends ( car ) the royal con…
1. Come thou, rescuing the living one; of the mountain art thou for the eyes (?), given by all the gods, an enclosure…
1. Born from the wind out of the atmosphere, out from the light of lightning, let this gold-born shell, of pearl, pro…
1. The draft-ox sustains earth and sky; the draft-ox sustains the wide atmosphere; the draft-ox sustains the six wide…
1. Grower art thou, grower; grower of severed bone; make this grow, O arundhatī́ . 2. What of thee is torn ( riç ), w…
1. Both, O ye gods, him that is put down, O ye gods, ye lead up again, and him that hath done evil ( ā́gas ), O ye go…
1. Since the goat has been born from the heat of Agni (the fire), it saw [its] generator in the beginning; by it the …
1. Let the directions, full of mist ( nábhasvant ), fly up together; let clouds, wind-hurried, come together; let the…
1. The great superintendent of them sees, as it were, from close by; whoever thinks to be going on in secret, all thi…
1. Thee, the mistress of remedies, O conquering one ( ujjeṣá ), we take hold of; I have made thee a thing of thousand…
1. The same light with the sun—night possesses the same with the day; I make what is effective ( satyá ) for aid; sap…
1. Both art thou not relative-making, and now art thou kin-making; also do thou cut off (? ā-chid ) the progeny of th…
1. He (?) looks on, he looks toward, he looks away, he looks: the sky, the atmosphere, then the earth—all that, O div…
1. The kine have come, and have done what is excellent; let them stay ( sad ) in the stall ( goṣṭhá ); let them take …
1. Increase, O Indra, this Kshatriya for me; make thou this man sole chief of the clans ( víç ); unman ( nis-akṣ ) al…
1. I reverence ( man-u ) first the forethoughtful ( prácetas ) Agni, him of the five peoples, whom men kindle in many…
1. We reverence Indra; constantly do we reverence him; these praise-hymns ( stoma ) of the Vṛtra-slayer have come unt…
1. Of Vāyu, of Savitar we reverence the counsels ( vidátha ): ye who enter and who defend what has life ( ātmanvánt )…
1. I reverence you, O heaven-and-earth, ye well-nourishing ones ( subhójas ), who, like-minded ( sácetas ) did spread…
1. The Maruts I reverence; let them bless me; let them favor this steed (? vā́ja ) in the race (? vā́jasāta ); I have…
1. O Bhava-and-Çarva, I reverence you, know ye that; ye in whose direction is all that shines out ( vi-ruc ) here, wh…
1. I reverence you, O Mitra-and-Varuṇa, increasers of right; who, accordant, thrust [away] the malicious ( drúhvan );…
1. I go about with the Rudras, the Vasus, I with the Ādityas and the All-gods; I bear Mitra-and-Varuṇa both, I Indra-…
1. In alliance ( sarátham ) with thee, O fury, battering, feeling excitement, excited, O companion of the Maruts, hav…
1. He who hath worshiped thee, O fury, missile thunderbolt, gains ( puṣ ) power, force, everything, in succession; ma…
1. Gleaming ( çuc ) away our evil ( aghá ), O Agni, gleam thou wealth unto [us]: gleaming away our evil. 2. With desi…
1. The bráhman [is] its head, the bṛhát its back, the vāmadevyá the belly of the rice-mess; the meters [are] the (two…
1. The rice-mess which Prajāpati, first-born of righteousness, cooked with fervor ( tápas ) for Brahmán; which, separ…
1. Them let him of real force burn forth—Agni Vāiçvānara, the bull; whoso shall abuse and seek to harm us, likewise w…
1. By thee of old the Atharvans slew the demons, O herb; by thee did Kaçyapa slay; by thee Kaṇva, Agastya. 2. By thee…
1. The up-shooting, all-conquering, successfully-playing Apsaras, that wins ( kṛ ) the winnings in the pool (? gláha …
1. On the earth they paid reverence ( sam-nam ) to Agni; he throve ( ṛdh ); as on earth they paid reverence to Agni, …
1. They who make offering from in front, O Jātavedas, [who] from the eastern quarter vex us—having come upon ( ṛ ) Ag…