O Agni, be thou born; Aditi here, suppliant, cooks a brahmán -rice-dish, desiring sons; the seven seers, being-makers—let them churn thee here together with progeny.
Make ye smoke, O ye bulls, companions, ye that are aided by the unhateful (?), unto speech; this Agni [is] fight-overpowering, having good heroes, by whom the gods overpowered the barbarians.
अग्ने ऽजनिष्ठा महते वीर्याय ब्रह्मौदनाय पक्तवे जातवेदः । सप्तऋषयो भूतकृतस् ते त्वाजीजनन्न् अस्यै रयिं सर्ववीरं नि यछ ॥३॥
agne 'janiṣṭhā mahate vīryāya brahmaudanāya paktave jātavedaḥ | saptaṛṣayo bhūtakṛtas te tvājījanann asyai rayiṃ sarvavīraṃ ni yacha ||3||
O Agni, thou hast been born unto great heroism, unto the cooking of the brahmán -rice-dish, O Jātavedas; the seven seers, being-makers—they have given thee birth; do thou confirm to this woman wealth with all heroes.
Kindled, O Agni, be thou kindled with kindling (samídh); mayest thou bring hither, knowing, the worshipful gods; for them cooking (çrā) the oblation, O Jātavedas, make thou this man to ascend to the highest firmament (nā́ka).
त्रेधा भागो निहितो यः पुरा वो देवानां पितॄणां मर्त्यानाम् । अंशां जानीध्वं वि भजामि तान् वो यो देवानां स इमां पारयाति ॥५॥
tredhā bhāgo nihito yaḥ purā vo devānāṃ pitṝṇāṃ martyānām | aṃśāṃ jānīdhvaṃ vi bhajāmi tān vo yo devānāṃ sa imāṃ pārayāti ||5||
Threefold is set down the share that is yours of old—of gods, of Fathers, of mortals; know ye the portions (áṅça); I share them out to you; that one that is the gods' shall set this woman across.
अग्ने सहस्वान् अभिभूर् अभीद् असि नीचो न्य् उब्ज द्विषतः सपत्नान् । इयं मात्रा मीयमाना मिता च सजातांस् ते बलिहृतः कृणोतु ॥६॥
agne sahasvān abhibhūr abhīd asi nīco ny ubja dviṣataḥ sapatnān | iyaṃ mātrā mīyamānā mitā ca sajātāṃs te balihṛtaḥ kṛṇotu ||6||
O Agni, powerful, overcoming, thou overcomest; put down (ni-ubj) [our] hating rivals; let this measure (mā́trā), being measured, and measured, make [thy] fellows tribute-bringers to thee.
sākaṃ sajātaiḥ payasā sahaidhy ud ubjaināṃ mahate vīryāya | ūrdhvo nākasyādhi roha viṣṭapaṃ svargo loka iti yaṃ vadanti ||7||
In company with thy fellows, be thou united with milk; urge her up unto great heroism; ascend aloft to the summit (viṣṭáp) of the firmament (nā́ka), which they call by the name heavenly world.
etau grāvāṇau sayujā yuṅdhi carmaṇi nirbindhy aṃśūn yajamānāya sādhu | avaghnatī ni jahi ya imāṃ pṛtanyava ūrdhvaṃ prajām udbharanty ud ūha ||9||
Join thou on the hide these two allied stones; split apart the shoots (aṅçú) successfully for the sacrificer; smiting down, smite them that would fight her; bearing up thy progeny aloft, lift up.
गृहाण ग्रावाणौ सकृतौ वीर हस्त आ ते देवा यज्ञिया यज्ञम् अगुः । त्रयो वरा यतमांस् त्वं वृणीषे तास् ते समृद्धीर् इह राधयामि ॥१०॥ १
gṛhāṇa grāvāṇau sakṛtau vīra hasta ā te devā yajñiyā yajñam aguḥ | trayo varā yatamāṃs tvaṃ vṛṇīṣe tās te samṛddhīr iha rādhayāmi ||10|| 1
Seize in thy hand, O hero, the two joint-acting (sakṛ́t) stones; the worshipful gods have come to thy sacrifice; three boons, whichsoever thou choosest—those successes do I here make successful for thee.
इयं ते धीतिर् इदम् उ ते जनित्रं गृह्णातु त्वाम् अदितिः शूरपुत्रा । परा पुनीहि य इमां पृतन्यवो ऽस्यै रयिं सर्ववीरं नि यछ ॥११॥
iyaṃ te dhītir idam u te janitraṃ gṛhṇātu tvām aditiḥ śūraputrā | parā punīhi ya imāṃ pṛtanyavo 'syai rayiṃ sarvavīraṃ ni yacha ||11||
This [is] thy thought (? dhītí) and this thy place of birth; let Aditi, of hero-sons, seize thee; cleanse away them that would fight her; confirm to her wealth with all heroes.
upaśvase druvaye sīdatā yūyaṃ vi vicyadhvaṃ yajñiyāsas tuṣaiḥ | śriyā samānān ati sarvānt syāmādhaspadaṃ dviṣatas pādayāmi ||12||
Sit ye in the wooden blower (? upaçvasá); be ye winnowed, worshipful ones, from the husks. By fortune (çrī́) may we surpass all [our] equals; I make [our] haters to fall under foot.
Go away, woman; come back quickly; the stall (goṣṭhá) of the waters hath ascended thee for bearing; seize then of them ⌊f.⌋ whichever shall be worshipful; having shared [them] out wisely, then leave the others.
These maidens (yoṣít) have come, adorning themselves; stand up, woman, take hold of the mighty one; well-spoused with husband, progeny-possessing with progeny; to thee hath come the sacrifice; receive thou the vessel (kumbhá).
The portion of refreshment (ū́rj) [is] set down which [is] yours of old; do thou, instructed by the seer, bring these waters; let this sacrifice be for you progress-gaining (gātu-víd), refuge-gaining, progeny-gaining, formidable, cattle-gaining, hero-gaining.
O Agni, the worshipful pot hath ascended thee; bright (çúci), very hot, do thou heat it with heat; let those of the seers, those of the gods, gathering unto their share, very hot, heat this with the seasons.
Let these cleansed, purified, worshipful maidens, the waters, beauteous ones, creep down to the pot; they have given us abundant progeny, cattle; let the cooker of the rice-dish go to the world of the well-doers.
brahmaṇā śuddhā uta pūtā ghṛtena somasyāṃśavas taṇḍulā yajñiyā ime | apaḥ pra viśata prati gṛhṇātu vaś carur imaṃ paktvā sukṛtām eta lokam ||18||
Cleansed with prayer (bráhman) and purified with ghee, shoots of Soma [are] these worshipful rice-grains; enter ye the waters; let the pot receive you; having cooked this, go ye to the world of the well-doers.
Spread thyself broad, with great greatness, thousand-backed, in the world of the well-done: grandfathers, fathers, progeny, descendants (upajā́): I am thy fifteen-fold cooker.
सहस्रपृष्ठः शतधारो अक्षितो ब्रह्मौदनो देवयानः स्वर्गः । अमूंस् त आ दधामि प्रजया रेषयैनान् बलिहाराय मृडतान् मह्यम् एव ॥२०॥ २
sahasrapṛṣṭhaḥ śatadhāro akṣito brahmaudano devayānaḥ svargaḥ | amūṃs ta ā dadhāmi prajayā reṣayainān balihārāya mṛḍatān mahyam eva ||20|| 2
Thousand-backed, hundred-streamed, unexhausted, [is] the brahmán -rice-dish, god-traveled, heaven-going; them yonder I assign to thee; lessen (?) thou them with progeny; be gracious then to me [as] bringer of tribute.
Go thou up to the sacrificial hearth; increase her with progeny; push [away] the demon; set her further forward; by fortune may we surpass all [our] equals; I make [our] haters to fall under foot.
अभ्यावर्तस्व पशुभिः सहैनां प्रत्यङ्ङ् एनां देवताभिः सहैधि । मा त्वा प्रापच् छपथो माभिचारः स्वे क्षेत्रे अनमीवा वि राज ॥२२॥
abhyāvartasva paśubhiḥ sahaināṃ pratyaṅṅ enāṃ devatābhiḥ sahaidhi | mā tvā prāpac chapatho mābhicāraḥ sve kṣetre anamīvā vi rāja ||22||
Turn thou toward her together with cattle; be opposite to her together with the divinities; let not curse attain thee, nor witchcraft (abhicārá); bear rule (vi-rāj) in thine own field (kṣétra), free from disease.
Fashioned by righteousness (ṛtá), set by mind, this was ordained in the beginning the sacrificial hearth of the brahmán -rice-dish; apply, O woman, the cleansed shoulder-bearer (?); on that set the rice-dish of them of the gods.
Aditi's hand, this second ladle (srúc), which the seven seers, being-makers, made—let that spoon, knowing the members of the rice-dish, collect it upon the sacrificial hearth.
Let them of the gods sit by thee, a cooked (çṛtá) oblation; having crept out of the fire, sit thou forward again to them; purified by soma, sit thou in the belly of the worshipers (brahmán); let not them of the seers, partakers (prāçitṛ́) of thee, suffer harm.
O king Soma, strew harmony for them, for whatsoever good Brahmans shall sit by thee; with good call, I call loudly to the brahmán -rice-dish the seers, them of the seers, born from penance (tápas).
śuddhāḥ pūtā yoṣito yajñiyā imā brahmaṇāṃ hasteṣu prapṛthak sādayāmi | yatkāma idam abhiṣiñcāmi vo 'ham indro marutvānt sa dadād idaṃ me ||27||
These cleansed purified worshipful maidens I seat in separate succession in the hands of the priests (brahmán); with what desire I now pour you on, may Indra here with the Maruts grant me that.
इदं मे ज्योतिर् अमृतं हिरण्यं पक्वं क्षेत्रात् कामदुघा म एषा । इदं धनं नि दधे ब्राह्मणेषु कृण्वे पन्थां पितृषु यः स्वर्गः ॥२८॥
idaṃ me jyotir amṛtaṃ hiraṇyaṃ pakvaṃ kṣetrāt kāmadughā ma eṣā | idaṃ dhanaṃ ni dadhe brāhmaṇeṣu kṛṇve panthāṃ pitṛṣu yaḥ svargaḥ ||28||
This my light (jyótis), immortal gold, cooked (pakvá) from the field, this my desire-milker; this riches I deposit in the Brahmans; I make a road to the Fathers that is heaven-going.
Strew thou the husks in the fire, in Jātavedas; wipe off far away the chaff (? kambū́kān); this we have heard to be the share of the house-king; also we know the portion (bhāgadhéya) of Perdition (nírṛti).
Know thou the toiling, cooking, soma-pressing one; make him to ascend the heaven-going road, by which he may ascend, arriving at the vigor that is beyond, to the highest firmament, to the furthest vault (vyòmati).
Wipe off, O serving priest (adhvaryú), this face of the bearing one (? babhrí); make thou, understanding it, room for the sacrificial butter; wipe off with ghee along all [its] members; I make a road to the Fathers that is heaven-going.
O bearing one, [as] a demon, strew discord for them, for whatsoever non-Brahmans shall sit by thee; rich in ground (? purīṣín), spreading themselves forward, let not them of the seers, partakers of thee, suffer harm.
आर्षेयेषु नि दध ओदन त्वा नानार्षेयाणाम् अप्य् अस्त्य् अत्र । अग्निर् मे गोप्ता मरुतश् च सर्वे विश्वे देवा अभि रक्षन्तु पक्वम् ॥३३॥
ārṣeyeṣu ni dadha odana tvā nānārṣeyāṇām apy asty atra | agnir me goptā marutaś ca sarve viśve devā abhi rakṣantu pakvam ||33||
I set thee down, O rice-dish, among them of the seers; for them that are not of the seers there is no portion here; let Agni my guardian, and all the Maruts, let all the gods defend the cooked [offering].
yajñaṃ duhānaṃ sadam it prapīnaṃ pumāṃsaṃ dhenuṃ sadanaṃ rayīṇām | prajāmṛtatvam uta dīrgham āyū rāyaś ca poṣair upa tvā sadema ||34||
The offering, yielding milk (duh), constantly full (prápīna), a male (púmāṅs) milch-cow, seat of wealth, immortality through offspring, and a long life-time—and may we sit by thee with abundance (pl.) of wealth.
vṛṣabho 'si svarga ṛṣīn ārṣeyān gacha | sukṛtāṃ loke sīda tatra nau saṃskṛtam ||35||
Thou art a heaven-going bull; go to the seers, to them of the seers; sit in the world of the well-doing; there is there preparation (saṁskṛtá) for us both.
Gather thou together unto, go thou together forth after; O Agni, make ready (kalpay-) the roads traveled by the gods; by them, well-made, may we go after the offering, that stands upon the seven-rayed firmament.
With what light the gods went up to the sky, having cooked the brahmán -rice-dish, to the world of the well-done, with that may we go to the world of the well-done, ascending the heaven, unto the highest firmament.
भवाशर्वौ मृडतं माभि यातं भूतपती पशुपती नमो वाम् । प्रतिहिताम् आयतां मा वि स्राष्टं मा नो हिंसिष्टं द्विपदो मा चतुष्पदः ॥१॥
bhavāśarvau mṛḍataṃ mābhi yātaṃ bhūtapatī paśupatī namo vām | pratihitām āyatāṃ mā vi srāṣṭaṃ mā no hiṃsiṣṭaṃ dvipado mā catuṣpadaḥ ||1||
O Bhava-and-Çarva, be gracious; do not go against [us]; ye lords of beings, lords of cattle, homage to you! [the arrow] that is fitted, that is drawn, do not let fly; do not harm our bipeds nor quadrupeds.
शुने क्रोष्ट्रे मा शरीराणि कर्तम् अलिक्लवेभ्यो गृध्रेभ्यो ये च कृष्णा अविष्यवः । मक्षिकास् ते पशुपते वयांसि ते विघसे मा विदन्त ॥२॥
śune kroṣṭre mā śarīrāṇi kartam aliklavebhyo gṛdhrebhyo ye ca kṛṣṇā aviṣyavaḥ | makṣikās te paśupate vayāṃsi te vighase mā vidanta ||2||
Make ye not bodies for the dog, the jackal, for the buzzards (? alíklava), the vultures, and them that are black [and] greedy (aviṣyú); let thy flies, lord of cattle, let thy birds not find themselves at food.
क्रन्दाय ते प्राणाय याश् च ते भव रोपयः । नमस् ते रुद्र कृण्मः सहस्राक्षायामर्त्य ॥३॥
krandāya te prāṇāya yāś ca te bhava ropayaḥ | namas te rudra kṛṇmaḥ sahasrākṣāyāmartya ||3||
Unto thy noise (? kránda), [thy] breath, and what pangs (? rópi) are thine, O Bhava—homage we pay to thee that art thousand-eyed, O Rudra, immortal one.
चतुर् नमो अष्टकृत्वो भवाय दश कृत्वः पशुपते नमस् ते । तवेमे पञ्च पशवो विभक्ता गावो अश्वाः पुरुषा अजावयः ॥९॥
catur namo aṣṭakṛtvo bhavāya daśa kṛtvaḥ paśupate namas te | taveme pañca paśavo vibhaktā gāvo aśvāḥ puruṣā ajāvayaḥ ||9||
Four times ⌊ catús ⌋ homage, eight times, to Bhava; ten times, O lord of cattle, be homage to thee; thine are shared out these five creatures (paçú)—cows, horses, men, sheep and goats.
Thine are the four directions, thine the heaven, thine the earth, thine, O formidable one, this wide atmosphere, thine is all this that has life (ātmán), that is breathing upon (ánu) the earth.
uruḥ kośo vasudhānas tavāyaṃ yasminn imā viśvā bhuvanāny antaḥ | sa no mṛḍa paśupate namas te paraḥ kroṣṭāro abhibhāḥ śvānaḥ paro yantv agharudo vikeśyaḥ ||11||
This wide vessel, holder of good things, is thine, within which are all these beings; do thou be gracious to us, O lord of cattle; homage to thee; away let the jackals, the portents (abhibhā́), the dogs go, away the weepers of evil with disheveled hair.
Thou bearest a yellow golden bow, a thousand-slaying, hundred-weaponed, O tufted one; Rudra's arrow goes, a god-missile; to that be homage, in whichever direction from here.
He who, attacked (abhi-yā), hides himself, [who] tries to put thee down, O Rudra, him from behind thou pursuest, like the tracker (? padanī́) of one that is pierced.
With the thousand-eyed one, seeing across in front, with Rudra, hurling in many places, inspired one, may we not come in collision, as he goes about (ī́ya-) with the tongue.
We go forward (pū́rva) to meet him of dark horses, black, swarthy, killing, fearful, making to fall the chariot of the hairy one (keçín); homage be to him.
मा नो ऽभि स्रा मत्यं देवहेतिं मा नः क्रुधः पशुपते नमस् ते । अन्यत्रास्मद् दिव्यां शाखां वि धूनु ॥१९॥
mā no 'bhi srā matyaṃ devahetiṃ mā naḥ krudhaḥ paśupate namas te | anyatrāsmad divyāṃ śākhāṃ vi dhūnu ||19||
Do not let fly at us the club (? matyà), the god-missile; be not angry at us, O lord of cattle; homage to thee; elsewhere than [over] us shake out the heavenly bough.
मा नो गोषु पुरुषेषु मा गृधो नो अजाविषु । अन्यत्रोग्र वि वर्तय पियारूणां प्रजां जहि ॥२१॥
mā no goṣu puruṣeṣu mā gṛdho no ajāviṣu | anyatrogra vi vartaya piyārūṇāṃ prajāṃ jahi ||21||
[Be] not [greedy] for our kine, our men; be not greedy for our goats and sheep; elsewhere, O formidable one, roll forth [thy missile]; smite the progeny of the mockers (píyāru).
To thee are assigned the forest animals ⌊paçú⌋, the wild beasts in the woods, the geese (haṅsá), eagles, hawks, birds; thine, O lord of cattle, is the monster (? yakṣá) within the waters; for thine increase flow the waters of the heaven.
शिंशुमारा अजगराः पुरीकया जषा मत्स्या रजसा येभ्यो अस्यसि । न ते दूरं न परिष्ठास्ति ते भव सद्यः सर्वां परि पश्यसि भूमिं पूर्वस्माद् धंस्य् उत्तरस्मिन्त् समुद्रे ॥२५॥
śiṃśumārā ajagarāḥ purīkayā jaṣā matsyā rajasā yebhyo asyasi | na te dūraṃ na pariṣṭhāsti te bhava sadyaḥ sarvāṃ pari paśyasi bhūmiṃ pūrvasmād dhaṃsy uttarasmint samudre ||25||
The dolphins (çiṅçumā́ra), boas (ajagará), purīkáyas, jashás, fishes, rajasás, at which thou hurlest: there is no distance for thee nor hindrance for thee, O Bhava; at once thou loolcest over the whole earth; from the eastern thou smitest in the northern ocean.
O king Bhava, be gracious to the sacrificer, for thou hast become cattle-lord of cattle; whoever has faith, saying "the gods are," be thou gracious to his bipeds [and] quadrupeds.
मा नो महान्तम् उत मा नो अर्भकं मा नो वहन्तम् उत मा नो वक्ष्यतः । मा नो हिंसीः पितरं मातरं च स्वां तन्वं रुद्र मा रीरिषो नः ॥२९॥
mā no mahāntam uta mā no arbhakaṃ mā no vahantam uta mā no vakṣyataḥ | mā no hiṃsīḥ pitaraṃ mātaraṃ ca svāṃ tanvaṃ rudra mā rīriṣo naḥ ||29||
Not our great one, and not our small, not our carrying one, and not those that will carry, not our father and mother do thou harm; our own self (tanū́), O Rudra, do not injure.
नमस् ते घोषिणीभ्यो नमस् ते केशिनीभ्यः । नमो नमस्कृताभ्यो नमः संभुञ्जतीभ्यः । नमस् ते देव सेनाभ्यः स्वस्ति नो अभयं च नः ॥३१॥ ७
namas te ghoṣiṇībhyo namas te keśinībhyaḥ | namo namaskṛtābhyo namaḥ saṃbhuñjatībhyaḥ | namas te deva senābhyaḥ svasti no abhayaṃ ca naḥ ||31|| 7
Homage to thy noisy ones, homage to thy hairy ones, homage to those to whom homage is paid, homage to the jointly-enjoying—homage, [namely], O god, to thine armies; welfare [be] to us, and fearlessness to us.