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1. Sing at evening; sing greatly; put clearly, O son of Atharvan; praise god Savitar. 2. Praise thou him who is withi…
1. For Indra, O priests, press the soma, and add the water; [Indra] who shall hear the praiser's words and my call. 2…
1. Protect us, O Indra-and-Pūshan; let Aditi, let the Maruts protect; O child of the waters, ye seven rivers, protect…
1. Tvashṭar [protect] my address ( vácas ) to the gods, [also] Parjanya, Brahmaṇaspati; with sons, with brothers, let…
1. Lead him up higher, O Agni, [thou] to whom oblations of ghee are made; unite him with splendor, and make him abund…
1. Whatever godless one, O Brahmaṇaspati, plots against us—every such one mayest thou make subject to me the sacrific…
1. By what road, O Soma, Aditi or friends go, not hostile, by that do thou come to us with aid. 2. By what, O Soma, o…
1. As the creeper ( líbujā ) has completely embraced the tree, so do thou embrace me—that thou mayest be one loving m…
1. Want ( vāñch ) thou the body of me, the feet; want the eyes; want the thighs; let the eyes, the hair of thee, lust…
1. To earth, to hearing, to the forest-trees—to Agni [their] overlord, hail! 2. To breath, to the atmosphere, to the …
1. The açvatthá [has] mounted upon the çamī́; there is made the generation of a male; that verily is the obtainment o…
1. I have gone about the race of snakes, as the sun about the sky, as night about living creatures other than the swa…
1. Homage to the weapons ( vadhá ) of the gods; homage to the weapons of kings; likewise the weapons that are of the …
1. The bone-dissolving, joint-dissolving, settled ( ā́sthita ) heart disease, all the balā́sa , cause thou to disappe…
1. Thou art the highest of herbs; of thee the trees are subjects ( upastí ); let him be our subject who assails us. 2…
1. O ābayu , non- ābayu! thy juice is sharp ( ugrá ), O ābayu! unto thy broth do we eat. 2. Vihálha by name is thy fa…
1. As this great earth receives the embryo of existences, so let thine embryo be maintained, in order to birth after …
1. The first blast of jealousy, and the one after the first, the fire, the heat of the heart—this we extinguish for t…
1. Let the god-folk purify me; let men ( mánu ) purify me with prayer ( dhī́ ); let all beings purify me; let the pur…
1. Of him as of burning fire goeth the vehemence (?); likewise, as it were, shall he crying out go away from me; some…
1. These three earths ( pṛthivī́ ) that there are—of them earth ( bhū́mi ) is the highest; from off their skin have I…
1. Black the down-track, the yellow eagles, clothing themselves in waters, fly up to the sky; they have come hither f…
1. Flowing on, devoted to it; by day and by night flowing on; I, of desirable activity, call upon the heavenly waters…
1. They flow forth from the snowy (mountain); in the Indus somewhere [is their] gathering; may the heavenly waters gi…
1. Both the five and the fifty that gather against those of the nape—let them all disappear from here, like the noise…
1. Let me go, O evil ( pāpmán ) being in control, mayest thou be gracious to us; set me uninjured in the world of the…
1. Seeking what, O gods, the sent dove, messenger of perdition, hath come hither, to it will we sing praises, make re…
1. With the praise-verse ( ṛ́ç ) drive ye the dove forth ( praṇódam ); reveling in food ( íṣ ) we lead a cow about, b…
1. Them yonder let the winged missile come upon; what the owl utters, [be] that to no purpose, or that the dove makes…
1. This barley, combined with honey, the gods plowed much on the Sarasvatī, in behalf of Manu (?); Indra, of a hundre…
1. Hither hath stridden this spotted steer, hath sat upon his mother in the east, and going forward to his father, th…
1. Within the flame, pray, make ye this sorcerer-destroying libation with ghee; from afar, O Agni, do thou burn again…
1. Of whom the welkin ( rájas ) here [is] the allies, [who] thrusts (?) people, the wood, the heaven—great [is] Indra…
1. Send thou forth the voice for Agni, bull of people ( kṣití ): may he pass us over our haters. 2. He who burns down…
1. Let Vāiçvānara, for our aid, come forth hither from the distance—Agni, unto our good praises. 2. Vāiçvānara, our a…
1. To Vāiçvānara, the righteous, lord of right, of light, we pray for unfailing heat ( gharmá ). 2. He shaped himself…
1. Hither hath come forth, having harnessed his chariot, the thousand-eyed curse, seeking after my curser, as a wolf …
1. What brilliancy ( tvíṣi ) is in lion, in tiger, and what in adder, in fire, in the Brāhman, what in the sun: the f…
1. [As] glory ( yáças ) let [my] oblation increase, quickened by Indra, of thousand-fold might, well-brought, made wi…
1. Let fearlessness, O heaven-and-earth, be here for us; let Soma, Savitar, make us fearlessness; be the wide atmosph…
1. To mind, to thought, to device ( dhī́ ), to design, and to intention, to opinion ( matí ), to instruction ( çrutá …
1. As the string from the bow, do I relax ( ava-tan ) fury from thy heart, that, becoming like-minded, we (two) may h…
1. This darbhá [is] fury-removing, both for one's own man and for a stranger; and this is called a fury-removing fury…
1. The heaven hath stood; the earth hath stood; all this living world hath stood; the trees have stood, sleeping erec…
1. Go far away, O mind-evil! why utterest ( çaṅs ) thou things unuttered? Go away; I desire thee not; do thou frequen…
1. Thou who art not alive, not dead, immortal-embryo of the gods art thou, O sleep; Varuṇāni is thy mother, Yama thy …
1. Let Agni at the morning libation ( sávana ) protect us, he that belongs to all men ( vāiçvānará ), all-maker, all-…
1. A falcon art thou, with gāyatrá for meter; I take hold after thee; carry me along to welfare at the close ( udṛ́c …
1. Surely no mortal, O Agni, hath attained the cruelty of thy self ( tanū́ ). The ape gnaws ( bhas ) the shaft ( téja…
1. Smite, O Açvins, the borer, the samān̄ká , the rat; split their head; crush in their ribs; lest they eat the barle…
1. Purified with Vāyu's purifier, Soma [hath] run over opposite ( pratyán̄ ), Indra's suitable companion. 2. Let the …
1. The sun goes up from the sky, burning down in front the demons; he, the Āditya, from the mountains, seen of all, s…
1. Let both the sky now and the earth, forethoughtful—let the bright ( çukrá ) great one, by the sacrificial gift, re…
1. Now do I adorn this man as superior to his fellow, for attainment of Indra; do thou increase his authority, his gr…
1. The many paths, traveled by the gods, that go between heaven-and-earth—whichever of them shall carry [one] to unsc…
1. Let not the snake, O gods, slay us with our offspring, with our men ( púruṣa ); what is shut together may it not u…
1. This verily is a remedy; this is Rudra's remedy; wherewith one may spell away ( apa-brū ) the one-shafted ( -téjan…
1. Glorious let the bounteous Indra make me; glorious both heaven-and-earth here; glorious let god Savitar make me; m…
1. To the draft-oxen ⌊do thou⌋ first, to the milch kine ⌊do thou⌋, O arundhatī́ , to the non-milch cow, in order to v…
1. Here cometh Aryaman, with locks ⌊- stupá ⌋ loosened in front, seeking a husband for this spinster, and a wife for …
1. To me let the waters send what has sweetness; to me the sun brought [it] in order to light; to me the gods, and al…
1. Let Vāiçvānara (Agni) by his rays purify us, the wind, lively with mists (? nábhas ), by his breath; let heaven-an…
1. The tie that the divine Nirṛti (perdition) bound upon thy neck, [and] that was unreleasable, that do I untie for t…
1. Do ye concur; be ye closely combined; let your minds be concurrent, as the gods of old sat concurrent about their …
1. Down ( áva ) [be] the fury, down the drawn [arrow], down the two mind-yoked arms. O demolisher ( parāçará ), do th…
1. Handless be the assailing foe—they who come with armies to fight us; make them, O Indra, collide with the great we…
1. Everywhere about the routes Indra and Pūshan have gone; let yonder armies of our enemies today be confounded furth…
1. Savitar here hath come with razor; come, O Vāyu, with hot water; let the Ādityas, the Rudras, the Vasus, wet [him]…
1. What glory [is] in the mountain, in the aragárāṭas , in gold, in kine, in strong-drink when poured out, [what] hon…
1. As flesh, as strong-drink, as dice on the gambling-board; as of a lustful man the mind is fastened ( ni-han ) on a…
1. What food of various form I eat oftentimes ( bahudhā́ )—gold, horse, also cow, she-goat, sheep, just whatsoever I …
1. As the black snake spreads himself at pleasure, making wondrous forms ( vápus ), by the Asura's magic ( māyá ), so…
1. Let Varuṇa come here, Soma, Agni; let Brihaspati with the Vasus come here; come ye together, [his] fellows, all of…
1. Together let your bodies be mixed ( pṛc ), together your minds, together your courses; together hath this Brahmaṇa…
1. I thrust yon man out of home, the rival who fights [us], with the oblation of ejectment; Indra hath demolished him…
1. They who sit about him, who pile on [fuel] in order to beholding [him]—let Agni, fully kindled, with his tongues a…
1. The heaven hath stood; the earth hath stood; all this living world hath stood; on their base ( āsthána ) the mount…
1. By this actual (? bhūtá ) oblation let this man be filled up again; the wife that they have brought to him, let hi…
1. Let the lord of the cloud ( nábhas ) here, the fattener, protect us, [grant] unequalledness (?) in our houses. 2. …
1. He flies through the atmosphere, looking down upon all existences; what the greatness is of the heavenly dog, with…
1. Thou art a holder, thou boldest ( yam ) the two hands, thou drivest away the demons. Seizing ( grah ) progeny and …
1. I take the name of the arriving, the arrived, the coming one; Indra the Vritra-slayer I win ( van ), him of the Va…
1. O apacíts , fly forth, like a bird ( suparṇá ) from its nest; let the sun make remedy; let the moon shine you away…
1. Thou in whose terrible mouth I make oblation, in order to the release of these bound ones; people think of thee as…
1. The varaṇá , this divine forest-tree, shall ward off ( vāray- ); the yákṣma that has entered into this man—that ha…
1. Chief ( vṛ́ṣan ) of Indra, chief of heaven, chief of earth is this man, chief of all existence; do thou be sole ch…
1. I have taken thee; thou hast become within; stand thou fixed, not unsteady; let all the people ( víças ) want thee…
1. Fixed [is] the sky, fixed the earth, fixed all this world of living beings ( jágat ), fixed these mountains; fixed…
1. This head that is love's (? preṇí ), virility given by Soma—by what is engendered out of that, do we pain ( çocaya…
1. The arrow that Rudra hurled at thee, at thy limbs and heart, that do we now thus eject asunder from thee. 2. The h…
1. This barley they plowed mightily with yokes of eight, with yokes of six; therewith I unwrap away the complaint ( r…
1. Be thou, O steed ( vājín ), of wind-swiftness, being harnessed ( yuj ) go in Indra's impulse, with mind-quickness;…
1. Yama, death, the evil-killer, the destroyer, the brown Çarva, the blue-locked archer, the god-folk that have arise…
1. We bend together your minds, together your courses, together your designs; ye yonder who are of discordant courses…
1. The açvatthá , seat of the gods, in the third heaven from here; there the gods won the kúṣṭha , the sight of immor…
1. The herbs whose king is Soma, numerous, of hundred-fold aspect (? vicakṣaṇa ), impelled by Brihaspati—let them fre…
1. An overcomer ( abhibhū́ ) [is] the sacrifice, an overcomer Agni, an overcomer Soma, an overcomer Indra; that I may…
1. May Indra conquer, may he not be conquered; may he king it as over-king among kings; be thou here one to be famed,…
1. Unto thee, O Indra, on account of width, thee against ( purā́ ) distress I call; I call on the stern corrector, th…
1. The gods have given, the sun has given, the sky has given, the earth has given, the three Sarasvatīs have given, a…
1. Play thou the bull, blow, increase and spread; let thy member increase limb by limb; with it smite the woman. 2. W…
1. As this draft-horse ( vāhá ), O Açvins, comes together and moves together [with his mate], so unto me let thy mind…
1. Tying-together may Brihaspati, tying-together may Savitar make for you; tying-together may Mitra, Aryaman, tying-t…
1. With tying-up, with tying-together, we tie up the enemies; the expirations and breaths of them, lives with life ( …
1. As the mind with mind-aims flies away swiftly, so do thou, O cough, fly forth, after the forth-driving (?) of the …
1. In thy course hither, [thy] course away, let the flowery dū́rvā grow; either let a fountain spring up there, or a …
1. O all-conqueror ( viçvajít ), commit me to rescuer; O rescuer, protect both all our bipeds, and whatever quadruped…
1. Do thou, O wisdom ( medhā́ ), come first to us, with kine, with horses, thou with the sun's rays; thou art worship…
1. The berry ( pippalī́ ), remedy for what is bruised (? kṣiptá ), and remedy for what is pierced—that did the gods p…
1. Since, an ancient one, to be praised at the sacrifices, thou sittest as hótar both of old and recent—do thou, O Ag…
1. Free thou this man for me, O Agni, who here bound, well-restrained, cries loudly; thenceforth shall he make for th…
1. Let not this one, O Agni, slay the oldest of them; protect him from uprooting; do thou, foreknowing, unfasten the …
1. On Trita the gods wiped off that sin; Trita wiped it off on human beings; if from that the seizure hath reached th…
1. O gods! whatever cause of the wrath of the gods we, O gods, have committed—from that do ye, O Ādityas, release us …
1. If knowing, if unknowing, we have committed sins, do ye free us from that, O all gods, accordant. 2. If waking, if…
1. What that was Yama's the Kārshīvaṇas made, digging down in the beginning, food-acquiring, not with knowledge, that…
1. What I eat (?) that is borrowed, that is not given back; with what tribute of Yama I go about—now, O Agni, I becom…
1. If ( yát ) with our hands we have done offenses, desiring to take up the course (?) of the dice, let the two Apsar…
1. If ( yát ), not playing, I make debt, also, O Agni, promise ( sam-gṛ ) not intending to give, may Vāiçvānara, our …
1. If ( yát ) atmosphere, earth, and sky, if father or mother we have injured ( hiṅs ), may this householder's-fire l…
1. An untier, do thou untie off us the fetters that are highest, lowest, that are Varuṇa's; remove ( nis-sū ) from us…
1. This portion I, knowing, make over [to thee], O Viçvakarman, first-born of right; by us [is it] given, beyond old …
1. This one, O ye associates (? sadhástha ), I deliver to you, whom Jātavedas shall carry [as] a treasure; the sacrif…
1. From the sky now, from the great atmosphere, a drop of water hath fallen upon me with essence ( rása ); with Indra…
1. Blast thou unto heaven and earth; in many places let them win for thee the scattered living creatures ( jágat ); d…
1. Of the vidradhá , of the red balā́sa , O forest-tree, of the visálpaka , O herb, do thou not leave even a bit (? p…
1. When the asterisms made the çakadhū́ma their king, they bestowed on him auspicious ( bhadrá- ) day, saying "This s…
1. Me with a portion ( bhága ) of çiṅçápā , together with Indra [as] ally, I make myself portioned; let the niggards …
1. Of the Apsarases, chariot-conquering, belonging to the chariot-conquering, [is] this the love ( smará ): ye gods, …
1. Down from the head, down from the feet, thy longings ( ādhī́ ) I draw down. Ye gods, send forth love; let yon [man…
1. The love that the gods poured within the waters, greatly burning, together with longing—that I heat for thee by Va…
1. The god that bound on this girdle, that fastened [it] together ( sam-nah ), and that joined ( yuj ) [it] for us, t…
1. Let this thunderbolt gratify itself with right (? ṛtásya ), let it smite down his kingdom, away his life; let it c…
1. When ( yát ) I eat, I make strength; thus do I take the thunderbolt, cutting to pieces ( çat ) the shoulders of hi…
1. Thou art born divine on the divine one, [namely] the earth, O herb; thee here, O down-stretcher, we dig in order t…
1. [The herb] which Jamadagni dug for his daughter, [as] hair-increaser, that one Vītahavya brought from Asita's hous…
1. Thou art listened to, O herb, as the most best of plants; make thou now this man for me impotent ( klībá ), opaçá …
1. Nyastikā́ hast thou grown up, my good-fortune maker; a hundred [are] thy forth-stretchers, three and thirty thy do…
1. The (two) tigers that, having grown down, desire to devour father and mother—those (two) teeth, O Brahmaṇaspati, m…
1. May Vāyu collect them; let Tvashṭar stay fast in order to [their] prosperity; may Indra bless them; let Rudra take…
1. Rise up ( ut-çri ), become abundant ( bahú ) with thine own greatness, O barley; ruin ( mṛ ) all receptacles; let …