Library·Atharvaveda Saṃhitā (Śaunaka)·12·12.2
नडम् आ रोह न ते अत्र लोक इदं सीसं भागधेयं त एहि । यो गोषु यक्ष्मः पुरुषेषु यक्ष्मस् तेन त्वं साकम् अधराङ् परेहि ॥१॥
naḍam ā roha na te atra loka idaṃ sīsaṃ bhāgadheyaṃ ta ehi | yo goṣu yakṣmaḥ puruṣeṣu yakṣmas tena tvaṃ sākam adharāṅ parehi ||1||
Ascend the reeds (naḍá); no place for thee is here; this lead is thy portion; come! what yákṣma is in kine, [what] yákṣma in men, in company with that do thou go forth downward.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
अघशंसदुःशंसाभ्यां करेणानुकरेण च । यक्ष्मं च सर्वं तेनेतो मृत्युं च निर् अजामसि ॥२॥
aghaśaṃsaduḥśaṃsābhyāṃ kareṇānukareṇa ca | yakṣmaṃ ca sarvaṃ teneto mṛtyuṃ ca nir ajāmasi ||2||
By evil-plotter and ill-plotter, by actor and helper, both all yákṣma and death do we thereby drive out from here.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
निर् इतो मृत्युं निरृतिं निर् अरातिम् अजामसि । यो नो द्वेष्टि तम् अद्ध्य् अग्ने अक्रव्याद् यम् उ द्विष्मस् तम् उ ते प्र सुवामसि ॥३॥
nir ito mṛtyuṃ nirṛtiṃ nir arātim ajāmasi | yo no dveṣṭi tam addhy agne akravyād yam u dviṣmas tam u te pra suvāmasi ||3||
Out from here do we drive death, perdition, out the niggard; whoso hates us, him, O non-flesh-eating Agni, do thou eat; whomso we hate, him do we impel to thee.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यद्य् अग्निः क्रव्याद् यदि वा व्याघ्र इमं गोष्ठं प्रविवेशान्योकाः । तं माषाज्यं कृत्वा प्र हिणोमि दूरं स गछत्व् अप्सुषदो ऽप्य् अग्नीन् ॥४॥
yady agniḥ kravyād yadi vā vyāghra imaṃ goṣṭhaṃ praviveśānyokāḥ | taṃ māṣājyaṃ kṛtvā pra hiṇomi dūraṃ sa gachatv apsuṣado 'py agnīn ||4||
If the flesh-eating Agni, or if the tiger-like, hath entered this stall (goṣṭhá), being not at home (?), him, having made him to have beans for sacrificial butter, I send far forth; let him go unto the Agnis that have seat in the waters.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यत् त्वा क्रुद्धाः प्रचक्रुर् मन्युना पुरुषे मृते । सुकल्पम् अग्ने तत् त्वया पुनस् त्वोद् दीपयामसि ॥५॥
yat tvā kruddhāḥ pracakrur manyunā puruṣe mṛte | sukalpam agne tat tvayā punas tvod dīpayāmasi ||5||
If angry men put thee forth (pra-kṛ), with fury, a man having died, that, O Agni, is easy to be arranged by thee; we make thee flame up again.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
पुनस् त्वादित्या रुद्रा वसवः पुनर् ब्रह्मा वसुनीतिर् अग्ने । पुनस् त्वा ब्रह्मणस् पतिर् आधाद् दीर्घायुत्वाय शतशारदाय ॥६॥
punas tvādityā rudrā vasavaḥ punar brahmā vasunītir agne | punas tvā brahmaṇas patir ādhād dīrghāyutvāya śataśāradāya ||6||
The Ādityas, the Rudras, the Vasus [have set] thee again; again, O Agni, the priest (brahmán), conductor of good; Brahmaṇaspati hath set thee again, in order to length of life-time to a hundred autumns.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यो अग्निः क्रव्यात् प्रविवेश नो गृहम् इमं पश्यन्न् इतरं जातवेदसम् । तं हरामि पितृयज्ञाय दूरं स घर्मम् इन्धां परमे सधस्थे ॥७॥
yo agniḥ kravyāt praviveśa no gṛham imaṃ paśyann itaraṃ jātavedasam | taṃ harāmi pitṛyajñāya dūraṃ sa gharmam indhāṃ parame sadhasthe ||7||
If the flesh-eating Agni hath entered our house, seeing this other Jātavedas, him I take afar for the Fathers' sacrifice; let him kindle the hot drink (gharmá) in the highest station.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
क्रव्यादम् अग्निं प्र हिणोमि दूरम् यमराज्ञो गछतु रिप्रवाहः । इहायम् इतरो जातवेदा देवो देवेभ्यो हव्यं वहतु प्रजानन् ॥८॥
kravyādam agniṃ pra hiṇomi dūram yamarājño gachatu ripravāhaḥ | ihāyam itaro jātavedā devo devebhyo havyaṃ vahatu prajānan ||8||
I send far forth the flesh-eating Agni; let him go, carrying evil (riprá-), to Yama's subjects; here let this other Jātavedas carry the oblation, a god to the gods, foreknowing.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
क्रव्यादम् अग्निम् इषितो हरामि जनान् दृंहन्तं वज्रेण मृत्युम् । नि तं शास्मि गार्हपत्येन विद्वान् पितॄणां लोके ऽपि भागो अस्तु ॥९॥
kravyādam agnim iṣito harāmi janān dṛṃhantaṃ vajreṇa mṛtyum | ni taṃ śāsmi gārhapatyena vidvān pitṝṇāṃ loke 'pi bhāgo astu ||9||
I, being sent, take the flesh-eating Agni, a death, making people fixed with the thunderbolt; I, knowing, separate (? ni-çās) him from the householder's fire; also in the world of the Fathers be he [their] portion.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
क्रव्यादम् अग्निं शशमानम् उक्थ्यं प्र हिणोमि पथिभिः पितृयाणैः । मा देवयानैः पुनर् आ गा अत्रैवैधि पितृषु जागृहि त्वम् ॥१०॥ ७
kravyādam agniṃ śaśamānam ukthyaṃ pra hiṇomi pathibhiḥ pitṛyāṇaiḥ | mā devayānaiḥ punar ā gā atraivaidhi pitṛṣu jāgṛhi tvam ||10|| 7
The flesh-eating Agni, active, praiseworthy, I send forth by the roads that the Fathers go; come thou not back by those that the gods go; be thou just there (átra); watch thou over the Fathers.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
सम् इन्धते संकसुकं स्वस्तये शुद्धा भवन्तः शुचयः पावकाः । जहाति रिप्रम् अत्य् एन एति समिद्धो अग्निः सुपुना पुनाति ॥११॥
sam indhate saṃkasukaṃ svastaye śuddhā bhavantaḥ śucayaḥ pāvakāḥ | jahāti ripram aty ena eti samiddho agniḥ supunā punāti ||11||
They kindle the devouring one (sáṁkasuka) in order to well-being, becoming cleansed, bright, purifying; he abandons evil (riprá), passes over sin; Agni, kindled, purifies with a good purifier.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
देवो अग्निः संकसुको दिवस् पृष्ठान्य् आरुहत् । मुच्यमानो निर् एणसो ऽमोग् अस्मां अशस्त्याः ॥१२॥
devo agniḥ saṃkasuko divas pṛṣṭhāny āruhat | mucyamāno nir eṇaso 'mog asmāṃ aśastyāḥ ||12||
God Agni the devouring hath ascended the backs of the sky; being released out of sin, he hath released us from imprecation.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
अस्मिन् वयं संकसुके अग्नौ रिप्राणि मृज्महे । अभूम यज्ञियाः शुद्धाः प्र ण आयूंषि तारिषत् ॥१३॥
asmin vayaṃ saṃkasuke agnau riprāṇi mṛjmahe | abhūma yajñiyāḥ śuddhāḥ pra ṇa āyūṃṣi tāriṣat ||13||
On this devouring Agni do we wipe off evils; we have become fit for sacrifice, cleansed; may he prolong our life-times.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
संकसुको विकसुको निरृथो यश् च निस्वरः । ते ते यक्ष्मं सवेदसो दूराद् दूरम् अनीनशन् ॥१४॥
saṃkasuko vikasuko nirṛtho yaś ca nisvaraḥ | te te yakṣmaṃ savedaso dūrād dūram anīnaśan ||14||
The crushing ⌊ sáṁkasuka ⌋, the bursting (víkasuka), the destroying (nirṛthá) and the noiseless (? nisvará)—they, of like possessions (? sávedas), have made from far thy yákṣma to disappear afar.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यो नो अश्वेषु वीरेषु यो नो गोष्व् अजाविषु । क्रव्यादं निर् णुदामसि यो अग्निर् जनयोपनः ॥१५॥
yo no aśveṣu vīreṣu yo no goṣv ajāviṣu | kravyādaṃ nir ṇudāmasi yo agnir janayopanaḥ ||15||
The flesh-eating one that is in our horses, heroes, that is in our kine, goats-and-sheep, do we thrust out—the fire that obstructs the people.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
अन्येभ्यस् त्वा पुरुषेभ्यो गोभ्यो अश्वेभ्यस् त्वा । निः क्रव्यादं नुदामसि यो अग्निर् जीवितयोपनः ॥१६॥
anyebhyas tvā puruṣebhyo gobhyo aśvebhyas tvā | niḥ kravyādaṃ nudāmasi yo agnir jīvitayopanaḥ ||16||
Thee from inexhaustible (? ánya) men, kine, horses, thee the flesh-eating one do we thrust out—the fire that obstructs life.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यस्मिन् देवा अमृजत यस्मिन् मनुष्या उत । तस्मिन् घृतस्तावो मृष्ट्वा त्वम् अग्ने दिवं रुह ॥१७॥
yasmin devā amṛjata yasmin manuṣyā uta | tasmin ghṛtastāvo mṛṣṭvā tvam agne divaṃ ruha ||17||
On what the gods wiped off, on what human beings (manuṣyà) also—on that having wiped off the drops of ghee (?), O Agni, do thou mount the sky.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
समिद्धो अग्न आहुत स नो माभ्यपक्रमीः । अत्रैव दीदिहि द्यवि ज्योक् च सूर्यं दृशे ॥१८॥
samiddho agna āhuta sa no mābhyapakramīḥ | atraiva dīdihi dyavi jyok ca sūryaṃ dṛśe ||18||
Being kindled, O Agni, thou to whom oblations are made, go (kram) thou not away against us; shine just here by day, and that [we] long see the sun.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
सीसे मृड्ढ्वं नडे मृड्ढ्वम् अग्नौ संकसुके च यत् । अथो अव्यां रामायां शीर्षक्तिम् उपबर्हणे ॥१९॥
sīse mṛḍḍhvaṃ naḍe mṛḍḍhvam agnau saṃkasuke ca yat | atho avyāṃ rāmāyāṃ śīrṣaktim upabarhaṇe ||19||
Wipe ye off on the lead; wipe ye off on the reeds; and what on the consuming fire; likewise on the dark (rāmá) ewe; headache on the pillow.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
सीसे मलं सादयित्वा शीर्षक्तिम् उपबर्हणे । अव्याम् असिक्न्यां मृष्ट्वा शुद्धा भवत यज्ञियाः ॥२०॥ ८
sīse malaṃ sādayitvā śīrṣaktim upabarhaṇe | avyām asiknyāṃ mṛṣṭvā śuddhā bhavata yajñiyāḥ ||20|| 8
Having settled what is foul upon the lead [and] headache upon the pillow, having wiped off on the black ewe, be ye cleansed, fit for sacrifice.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
परं मृत्यो अनु परेहि पन्थां यस् त एष इतरो देवयानात् । चक्षुष्मते शृण्वते ते ब्रवीमीहेमे वीरा बहवो भवन्तु ॥२१॥
paraṃ mṛtyo anu parehi panthāṃ yas ta eṣa itaro devayānāt | cakṣuṣmate śṛṇvate te bravīmīheme vīrā bahavo bhavantu ||21||
Go away, O death, along a distant road which is thine here, other than that the gods go upon; I speak to thee having sight, hearing; let these many heroes be here.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
इमे जीवा वि मृतैर् आववृत्रन्न् अभूद् भद्रा देवहुतिर् नो अद्य । प्राञ्चो अगाम नृतये हसाय सुवीरासो विदथम् आ वदेम ॥२२॥
ime jīvā vi mṛtair āvavṛtrann abhūd bhadrā devahutir no adya | prāñco agāma nṛtaye hasāya suvīrāso vidatham ā vadema ||22||
These living ones have turned away from the dead; our invocation of the gods hath been auspicious (bhadrá) today; we have gone forward unto dancing, unto laughter; may we, rich in heroes, address counsel.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
इमं जीवेभ्यः परिधिं दधामि मैषां नु गाद् अपरो अर्थम् एतम् । शतं जीवन्तः शरदः पुरूचीस् तिरो मृत्युं दधताम् पर्वतेन ॥२३॥
imaṃ jīvebhyaḥ paridhiṃ dadhāmi maiṣāṃ nu gād aparo artham etam | śataṃ jīvantaḥ śaradaḥ purūcīs tiro mṛtyuṃ dadhatām parvatena ||23||
I set this enclosure for the living; let not another of them now go to that goal; living a hundred numerous autumns, let them set an obstacle to death with a mountain.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
आ रोहतायुर् जरसं वृणाना अनुपूर्वं यतमाना यति स्थ । तान् वस् त्वष्टा सुजनिमा सजोषाः सर्वम् आयुर् नयतु जीवनाय ॥२४॥
ā rohatāyur jarasaṃ vṛṇānā anupūrvaṃ yatamānā yati stha | tān vas tvaṣṭā sujanimā sajoṣāḥ sarvam āyur nayatu jīvanāya ||24||
Mount, choosing old age for life-time, pressing on, one after another, as many as ye be; you here let Tvashṭar, him of good births, in accord [with you], lead on to living your whole life-time.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यथाहान्य् अनुपूर्वं भवन्ति यथ र्तव ऋतुभिर् यन्ति साकम् । यथा न पूर्वम् अपरो जहात्य् एवा धातर् आयूंषि कल्पयैषाम् ॥२५॥
yathāhāny anupūrvaṃ bhavanti yatha rtava ṛtubhir yanti sākam | yathā na pūrvam aparo jahāty evā dhātar āyūṃṣi kalpayaiṣām ||25||
As days take place (bhū) one after another, as seasons go along with seasons, as an after one does not desert (hā) a preceding—so, O creator (dhā́tṛ), arrange their life-times.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
अश्मन्वती रीयते सं रभध्वं वीरयध्वं प्र तरता सखायः । अत्रा जहीत ये असन् दुरेवा अनमीवान् उत् तरेमाभि वाजान् ॥२६॥
aśmanvatī rīyate saṃ rabhadhvaṃ vīrayadhvaṃ pra taratā sakhāyaḥ | atrā jahīta ye asan durevā anamīvān ut taremābhi vājān ||26||
The stony one flows (rī); take ye hold together; play the hero, pass over, O friends; quit here them that are of evil courses; may we pass up unto powers (? vā́ja) that are free from disease.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
उत् तिष्ठता प्र तरता सखायो ऽश्मन्वती नदी स्यन्दत इयम् । अत्रा जहीत ये असन्न् अशिवाः शिवान्त् स्योनान् उत् तरेमाभि वाजान् ॥२७॥
ut tiṣṭhatā pra taratā sakhāyo 'śmanvatī nadī syandata iyam | atrā jahīta ye asann aśivāḥ śivānt syonān ut taremābhi vājān ||27||
Stand up, pass over, O friends; the stony river here runs (syand); quit ye here them that are unpropitious; may we pass up unto propitious pleasant powers.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
वैश्वदेवीं वर्चसा आ रभध्वं शुद्धा भवन्तः शुचयः पावकाः । अतिक्रामन्तो दुरिता पदानि शतं हिमाः सर्ववीरा मदेम ॥२८॥
vaiśvadevīṃ varcasā ā rabhadhvaṃ śuddhā bhavantaḥ śucayaḥ pāvakāḥ | atikrāmanto duritā padāni śataṃ himāḥ sarvavīrā madema ||28||
Take ye hold on that of all the gods in order to splendor, becoming cleansed, clear, purifying; stepping over difficult tracks, may we revel a hundred winters with all our heroes.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
उदीचीनैः पथिभिर् वायुमद्भिर् अतिक्रामन्तो ऽवरान् परेभिः । त्रिः सप्त कृत्व ऋषयः परेता मृत्युं प्रत्य् औहन् पदयोपनेन ॥२९॥
udīcīnaiḥ pathibhir vāyumadbhir atikrāmanto 'varān parebhiḥ | triḥ sapta kṛtva ṛṣayaḥ paretā mṛtyuṃ praty auhan padayopanena ||29||
By upward roads, full of wind, by distant (pára) ones, stepping over those that are lower (ávara), thrice seven times did the departed (páreta) seers bear back death with the track-obstructor.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
मृत्योः पदं योपयन्त एत द्राघीय आयुः प्रतरं दधानाः । आसीना मृत्युं नुदता सधस्थे ऽथ जीवासो विदथम् आ वदेम ॥३०॥ ९
mṛtyoḥ padaṃ yopayanta eta drāghīya āyuḥ prataraṃ dadhānāḥ | āsīnā mṛtyuṃ nudatā sadhasthe 'tha jīvāso vidatham ā vadema ||30|| 9
Come ye, obstructing the track of death, assuming further on a longer life-time; sitting in your station, thrust ye [away] death; then may we, living, speak to the council.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
इमा नारीर् अविधवाः सुपत्नीर् आञ्जनेन सर्पिषा सं स्पृशन्ताम् । अनश्रवो अनमीवाः सुरत्ना आ रोहन्तु जनयो योनिम् अग्रे ॥३१॥
imā nārīr avidhavāḥ supatnīr āñjanena sarpiṣā saṃ spṛśantām | anaśravo anamīvāḥ suratnā ā rohantu janayo yonim agre ||31||
Let these women, not widows, well-spoused, touch themselves with ointment, with butter; tearless, without disease, with good treasures (-rátna), let the wives ascend first to the place of union (yóni).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
व्याकरोमि हविषाहम् एतौ तौ ब्रह्मणा व्य् अहं कल्पयामि । स्वधां पितृभ्यो अजरां कृणोमि दीर्घेणायुषा सम् इमान्त् सृजामि ॥३२॥
vyākaromi haviṣāham etau tau brahmaṇā vy ahaṃ kalpayāmi | svadhāṃ pitṛbhyo ajarāṃ kṛṇomi dīrgheṇāyuṣā sam imānt sṛjāmi ||32||
I separate (vy-ā-kṛ) these two by oblation; I shape them apart with a spell (bráhman); I make for the Fathers unwasting svadhā́; I unite these with a long life-time.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यो नो अग्निः पितरो हृत्स्व् अन्तर् आविवेशामृतो मर्त्येषु । मय्य् अहं तं परि गृह्णामि देवं मा सो अस्मान् द्विक्षत मा वयं तम् ॥३३॥
yo no agniḥ pitaro hṛtsv antar āviveśāmṛto martyeṣu | mayy ahaṃ taṃ pari gṛhṇāmi devaṃ mā so asmān dvikṣata mā vayaṃ tam ||33||
What Agni, O Fathers, hath entered into our hearts, an immortal into mortals, that god do I enclose in me; let him not hate us, nor let us [hate] him.
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अपावृत्य गार्हपत्यात् क्रव्यादा प्रेत दक्षिणा । प्रियं पितृभ्य आत्मने ब्रह्मभ्यः कृणुता प्रियम् ॥३४॥
apāvṛtya gārhapatyāt kravyādā preta dakṣiṇā | priyaṃ pitṛbhya ātmane brahmabhyaḥ kṛṇutā priyam ||34||
Having turned away from the householder's fire, go ye forth to the right with the flesh-eating one; do ye what is dear to the Fathers, to self, what is dear to the priests (brahmán).
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द्विभागधनम् आदाय प्र क्षिणात्य् अवर्त्या । अग्निः पुत्रस्य ज्येष्ठस्य यः क्रव्याद् अनिराहितः ॥३५॥
dvibhāgadhanam ādāya pra kṣiṇāty avartyā | agniḥ putrasya jyeṣṭhasya yaḥ kravyād anirāhitaḥ ||35||
The flesh-eating Agni that is unremoved (á-nir-ā-hita), taking to himself the double-portioned riches of the oldest son, destroys [him] with ruin.
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यत् कृषते यद् वनुते यच् च वस्नेन विन्दते । सर्वं मर्त्यस्य तन् नास्ति क्रव्याच् चेद् अनिराहितः ॥३६॥
yat kṛṣate yad vanute yac ca vasnena vindate | sarvaṃ martyasya tan nāsti kravyāc ced anirāhitaḥ ||36||
What one plows, what one wins (van), and what one gains (vid) by pay (vasná)—all that is not a mortal's, if the flesh-eating one be unremoved.
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अयज्ञियो हतवर्चा भवति नैनेन हविर् अत्तवे । छिनत्ति कृष्या गोर् धनाद् यं क्रव्याद् अनुवर्तते ॥३७॥
ayajñiyo hatavarcā bhavati nainena havir attave | chinatti kṛṣyā gor dhanād yaṃ kravyād anuvartate ||37||
He becomes unfit for sacrifice, of smitten splendor; not by him is the oblation to be eaten; [him] the flesh-eating one cuts off from plowing, kine, riches, whom it pursues.
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मुहुर् गृध्यैः प्र वदत्य् आर्तिम् मर्त्यो नीत्य । क्रव्याद् यान् अग्निर् अन्तिकाद् अनुविद्वान् वितावति ॥३८॥
muhur gṛdhyaiḥ pra vadaty ārtim martyo nītya | kravyād yān agnir antikād anuvidvān vitāvati ||38||
A mortal, going down to mishap, speaks forth repeatedly with greedy ones (? gṛ́dhya); whom (pl.) the flesh-eating Agni, from near by, after-knowing, follows (? vi-tāv).
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ग्राह्या गृहाः सं सृज्यन्ते स्त्रिया यन् म्रियते पतिः । ब्रह्मैव विद्वान् एष्यो यः क्रव्यादं निरादधत् ॥३९॥
grāhyā gṛhāḥ saṃ sṛjyante striyā yan mriyate patiḥ | brahmaiva vidvān eṣyo yaḥ kravyādaṃ nirādadhat ||39||
The houses are united with seizure (grā́hi) when a woman's husband dies; a knowing priest (brahmán) is to be sought, who shall remove the flesh-eating one.
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यद् रिप्रं शमलं चकृम यच् च दुष्कृतम् । आपो मा तस्माच् छुम्भन्त्व् अग्नेः संकसुकाच् च यत् ॥४०॥ १०
yad ripraṃ śamalaṃ cakṛma yac ca duṣkṛtam | āpo mā tasmāc chumbhantv agneḥ saṃkasukāc ca yat ||40|| 10
What evil (riprá), pollution we have committed, and what ill-doing, from that let the waters cleanse me, and from the crushing Agni what.
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ता अधराद् उदीचीर् आववृत्रन् प्रजानैतीः पथिभिर् देवयानैः । पर्वतस्य वृषभस्याधि पृष्ठे नवाश् चरन्ति सरितः पुराणीः ॥४१॥
tā adharād udīcīr āvavṛtran prajānaitīḥ pathibhir devayānaiḥ | parvatasya vṛṣabhasyādhi pṛṣṭhe navāś caranti saritaḥ purāṇīḥ ||41||
These fore-knowing ones (f.) have turned hither upward from below by roads that the gods go upon; upon the back of the virile (vṛṣabhá) mountain the ancient streams (sarít) go about new.
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अग्ने अक्रव्यान् निः क्रव्यादं नुदा देवयजनं वह ॥४२॥
agne akravyān niḥ kravyādaṃ nudā devayajanaṃ vaha ||42||
O non-flesh-eating Agni, push out the flesh-eating one; bring the god-sacrificing one.
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इमं क्रव्याद् आ विवेशायं क्रव्यादम् अन्व् अगात् । व्याघ्रौ कृत्वा नानानं तं हरामि शिवापरम् ॥४३॥
imaṃ kravyād ā viveśāyaṃ kravyādam anv agāt | vyāghrau kṛtvā nānānaṃ taṃ harāmi śivāparam ||43||
The flesh-eating one entered into this man; he has gone after the flesh-eating one; having made two tigers severally, I take him, who is other than propitious.
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अन्तर्धिर् देवानां परिधिर् मनुष्याणाम् अग्निर् गार्हपत्य उभयान् अन्तरा श्रितः ॥४४॥
antardhir devānāṃ paridhir manuṣyāṇām agnir gārhapatya ubhayān antarā śritaḥ ||44||
Concealment of the gods, defense (paridhí) of men (manuṣyà), the householder's fire is set (çritá) between both classes.
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जीवानाम् आयुः प्र तिर त्वम् अग्ने पितॄणां लोकम् अपि गछन्तु ये मृताः । सुगार्हपत्यो वितपन्न् अरातिम् उषामुषां श्रेयसीं धेह्य् अस्मै ॥४५॥
jīvānām āyuḥ pra tira tvam agne pitṝṇāṃ lokam api gachantu ye mṛtāḥ | sugārhapatyo vitapann arātim uṣāmuṣāṃ śreyasīṃ dhehy asmai ||45||
Lengthen thou out, O Agni, the life-time of the living; let them who are dead go unto the world of the Fathers; do thou, a good householder's fire, burning away the niggard, assign to this man an ever better dawn.
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सर्वान् अग्ने सहमानः सपत्नान् ऐषाम् ऊर्जं रयिम् अस्मासु धेहि ॥४६॥
sarvān agne sahamānaḥ sapatnān aiṣām ūrjaṃ rayim asmāsu dhehi ||46||
Overcoming, O Agni, all [our] rivals, do thou assign to us their refreshment [and] wealth.
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इमम् इन्द्रं वह्निं पप्रिम् अन्वारभध्वं स वो निर् वक्षद् दुरिताद् अवद्यात् । तेनाप हत शरुम् आपतन्तं तेन रुद्रस्य परि पातास्ताम् ॥४७॥
imam indraṃ vahniṃ paprim anvārabhadhvaṃ sa vo nir vakṣad duritād avadyāt | tenāpa hata śarum āpatantaṃ tena rudrasya pari pātāstām ||47||
Take ye hold after this saving (pápri) carrier (váhni) Indra; he shall carry you out of difficulty [and] reproach; by him smite away the on-flying shaft; by him ward off (pari-pā) Rudra's hurled [missile].
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अनड्वाहं प्लवम् अन्वारभध्वं स वो निर् वक्षद् दुरिताद् अवद्यात् । आ रोहत सवितुर् नावम् एतां षड्भिर् उर्वीभिर् अमतिं तरेम ॥४८॥
anaḍvāhaṃ plavam anvārabhadhvaṃ sa vo nir vakṣad duritād avadyāt | ā rohata savitur nāvam etāṃ ṣaḍbhir urvībhir amatiṃ tarema ||48||
Lay ye hold after the draft-ox [as] float (plavá); he shall carry you out of difficulty [and] reproach; mount this boat of Savitar; may we cross over misery by the six wide [directions].
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अहोरात्रे अन्व् एषि बिभ्रत् क्षेम्यस् तिष्ठन् प्रतरणः सुवीरः । अनातुरान्त् सुमनसस् तल्प बिभ्रज् ज्योग् एव नः पुरुषगन्धिर् एधि ॥४९॥
ahorātre anv eṣi bibhrat kṣemyas tiṣṭhan prataraṇaḥ suvīraḥ | anāturānt sumanasas talpa bibhraj jyog eva naḥ puruṣagandhir edhi ||49||
Day-and-night thou goest after, bearing, standing comfortable (kṣemyá), prolonging [life], having good heroes; bearing, O couch, healthful (ánātura), well-minded ones (m.), do thou long be for us smelling of men (púrusagandhi).
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ते देवेभ्य आ वृश्चन्ते पापं जीवन्ति सर्वदा । क्रव्याद् यान् अग्निर् अन्तिकाद् अश्व इवानुवपते नडम् ॥५०॥ ११
te devebhya ā vṛścante pāpaṃ jīvanti sarvadā | kravyād yān agnir antikād aśva ivānuvapate naḍam ||50|| 11
They fall under the wrath of the gods, they live always evilly, after whom the flesh-eating fire, from near by, like a horse, scatters reeds.
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ये ऽश्रद्धा धनकाम्या क्रव्यादा समासते । ते वा अन्येषां कुम्भीं पर्यादधति सर्वदा ॥५१॥
ye 'śraddhā dhanakāmyā kravyādā samāsate | te vā anyeṣāṃ kumbhīṃ paryādadhati sarvadā ||51||
Whoever, without faith, from desire of riches then sit together with the flesh-eating one, they verily feed the fire (ā-dhā) about the pot (kumbhī́) of others ⌊always⌋.
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प्रेव पिपतिषति मनसा मुहुर् आ वर्तते पुनः । क्रव्याद् यान् अग्निर् अन्तिकाद् अनुविद्वान् वितावति ॥५२॥
preva pipatiṣati manasā muhur ā vartate punaḥ | kravyād yān agnir antikād anuvidvān vitāvati ||52||
He desires, as it were, to fly forth with his mind; repeatedly he returns again—they whom the flesh-eating Agni, from near by, after-knowing follows.
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अविः कृष्णा भागधेयं पशूनां सीसं क्रव्याद् अपि चन्द्रं त आहुः । माषाः पिष्टा भागधेयं ते हव्यम् अरण्यान्या गह्वरं सचस्व ॥५३॥
aviḥ kṛṣṇā bhāgadheyaṃ paśūnāṃ sīsaṃ kravyād api candraṃ ta āhuḥ | māṣāḥ piṣṭā bhāgadheyaṃ te havyam araṇyānyā gahvaraṃ sacasva ||53||
A black ewe [is] of cattle [thy] portion; lead, too, they call thy gold (? candrá), O flesh-eating one; ground beans ⌊are⌋ thy portion [as] oblation; seek (sac) thou the thicket of the forest-spirit (araṇyānī́).
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इषीकां जरतीम् इष्ट्वा तिल्पिञ्जं दण्डनं नडम् । तम् इन्द्र इध्मम् कृत्वा यमस्याग्निं निरादधौ ॥५४॥
iṣīkāṃ jaratīm iṣṭvā tilpiñjaṃ daṇḍanaṃ naḍam | tam indra idhmam kṛtvā yamasyāgniṃ nirādadhau ||54||
Having made offering of withered (? járat) cane (iṣī́kā), of tilpíñja, of dáṇḍana, of reeds; having made fuel of this, Indra removed Yama's fire.
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प्रत्यञ्चम् अर्कं प्रत्यर्पयित्वा प्रविद्वान् पन्थां वि ह्य् आविवेश । परामीषाम् असून् दिदेश दीर्घेणायुषा सम् इमान्त् सृजामि ॥५५॥ १२
pratyañcam arkaṃ pratyarpayitvā pravidvān panthāṃ vi hy āviveśa | parāmīṣām asūn dideśa dīrgheṇāyuṣā sam imānt sṛjāmi ||55|| 12
Having sent in opposition an opposing (pratyáñc) song (arká), I, foreknowing, have entered abroad on the road; I have directed away the lifebreaths of them yonder; these here I unite with long life-time.
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