अग्निस् तक्मानम् अप बाधताम् इतः सोमो ग्रावा वरुणः पूतदक्षाः । वेदिर् बर्हिः समिधः शोशुचाना अप द्वेषांस्य् अमुया भवन्तु ॥१॥
agnis takmānam apa bādhatām itaḥ somo grāvā varuṇaḥ pūtadakṣāḥ | vedir barhiḥ samidhaḥ śośucānā apa dveṣāṃsy amuyā bhavantu ||1||
Let Agni drive (bādh) the fever away from here; [let] Soma, the pressing-stone, Varuṇa of purified dexterity, the sacrificial hearth, the barhís, the brightly gleaming (çuc) fuel; be hatreds away yonder.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
अयं यो विश्वान् हरितान् कृणोष्य् उच्छोचयन्न् अग्निर् इवाभिदुन्वन् । अधा हि तक्मन्न् अरसो हि भूया अधा न्यङ्ङ् अधरान् वा परेहि ॥२॥
ayaṃ yo viśvān haritān kṛṇoṣy ucchocayann agnir ivābhidunvan | adhā hi takmann araso hi bhūyā adhā nyaṅṅ adharān vā parehi ||2||
Thou here that makest all [men] yellow, heating (çuc) up like fire, consuming; now then, O fever—for mayest thou become sapless—now go away inward or downward.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यः परुषः पारुषेयो ऽवध्वंस इवारुणः । तक्मानं विश्वधावीर्याधराञ्चं परा सुवा ॥३॥
yaḥ paruṣaḥ pāruṣeyo 'vadhvaṃsa ivāruṇaḥ | takmānaṃ viśvadhāvīryādharāñcaṃ parā suvā ||3||
The fever that is spotted, speckled, ruddy like a sprinkling, do thou, O thou of power (-vīryà) in every direction, impel away downward.
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अधराञ्चम् प्र हिणोमि नमः कृत्वा तक्मने । शकम्भरस्य मुष्टिहा पुनर् एतु महावृषान् ॥४॥
adharāñcam pra hiṇomi namaḥ kṛtvā takmane | śakambharasya muṣṭihā punar etu mahāvṛṣān ||4||
I send [him] forth downward, having paid homage to the fever; let the fist-slayer of the dung-bearer (?) go back to the Mahāvrishas.
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ओको अस्य मूजवन्त ओको अस्य महावृषाः । यावज् जातस् तक्मंस् तावान् असि बल्हिकेषु न्योचरः ॥५॥
oko asya mūjavanta oko asya mahāvṛṣāḥ | yāvaj jātas takmaṃs tāvān asi balhikeṣu nyocaraḥ ||5||
Its home (ókas) is the Mūjavants, its home is the Mahāvrishas; as long as born, O fever, so long art thou at home among the Balhikas.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
तक्मन् व्याल वि गद व्यङ्ग भूरि यावय । दासीं निष्टक्वरीम् इछ ताम् वज्रेण सम् अर्पय ॥६॥
takman vyāla vi gada vyaṅga bhūri yāvaya | dāsīṃ niṣṭakvarīm icha tām vajreṇa sam arpaya ||6||
O fever, trickish one, speak out (?); O limbless one, keep much away (?); seek the fugitive (?) barbarian woman; make her meet a thunderbolt.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
तक्मन् मूजवतो गछ बल्हिकान् वा परस्तराम् । शूद्राम् इछ प्रफर्व्यं तां तक्मन् वीव धूनुहि ॥७॥
takman mūjavato gacha balhikān vā parastarām | śūdrām icha prapharvyaṃ tāṃ takman vīva dhūnuhi ||7||
O fever, go to the Mūjavants, or to the Balhikas, further off; seek the wanton Çūdra woman; her, O fever, do thou shake up a bit (iva).
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
महावृषान् मूजवतो बन्ध्व् अद्धि परेत्य । प्रैतानि तक्मने ब्रूमो अन्यक्षेत्राणि वा इमा ॥८॥
mahāvṛṣān mūjavato bandhv addhi paretya | praitāni takmane brūmo anyakṣetrāṇi vā imā ||8||
Going away, eat thou thy connection (bándhu), the Mahāvrishas [and] Mūjavants; those [fields] we announce to the fever; others' fields verily [are] these.
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अन्यक्षेत्रे न रमसे वशी सन् मृडयासि नः । अभूद् उ प्रार्थस् तक्मा स गमिष्यति बल्हिकान् ॥९॥
anyakṣetre na ramase vaśī san mṛḍayāsi naḥ | abhūd u prārthas takmā sa gamiṣyati balhikān ||9||
In another's field thou restest (ram) not; being in control, mayest thou be gracious to us; the fever hath become ready (?); it will go to the Balhikas.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
यत् त्वं शीतो ऽथो रूरः सह कासावेपयः । भीमास् ते तक्मन् हेतयस् ताभिः स्म परि वृङ्ग्धि नः ॥१०॥
yat tvaṃ śīto 'tho rūraḥ saha kāsāvepayaḥ | bhīmās te takman hetayas tābhiḥ sma pari vṛṅgdhi naḥ ||10||
In that thou, being cold, then hot (rūrá), didst cause trembling, together with cough—fearful are thy missiles, O fever; with them do thou avoid us.
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मा स्मैतान्त् सखीन् कुरुथा बलासं कासम् उद्युगम् । मा स्मातोऽर्वाङ् ऐः पुनस् तत् त्वा तक्मन्न् उप ब्रुवे ॥११॥
mā smaitānt sakhīn kuruthā balāsaṃ kāsam udyugam | mā smāto'rvāṅ aiḥ punas tat tvā takmann upa bruve ||11||
Do not thou make them thy companions—the balā́sa, the cough, the udyugá (?); come not back hitherward from there: for that, O fever, I appeal to thee.
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तक्मन् भ्रात्रा बलासेन स्वस्रा कासिकया सह । पाप्मा भ्रातृव्येण सह गछामुम् अरणं जनम् ॥१२॥
takman bhrātrā balāsena svasrā kāsikayā saha | pāpmā bhrātṛvyeṇa saha gachāmum araṇaṃ janam ||12||
O fever, together with thy brother the balā́sa [and] thy sister the cough, together with thy cousin the scab (pāmán), go to yon foreign people.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
तृतीयकं वितृतीयं सदन्दिम् उत शारदम् । तक्मानं शीतं रूरं ग्रैष्मं नाशय वार्षिकम् ॥१३॥
tṛtīyakaṃ vitṛtīyaṃ sadandim uta śāradam | takmānaṃ śītaṃ rūraṃ graiṣmaṃ nāśaya vārṣikam ||13||
The fever of the third day, of two days out of three, the constant, and the autumnal, the cold, the hot, that of the hot season, that of the rainy season, do thou cause to disappear.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
गन्धारिभ्यो मूजवद्भ्यो ऽङ्गेभ्यो मगधेभ्यः । प्रैष्यन् जनम् इव शेवधिं तक्मानं परि दद्मसि ॥१४॥
gandhāribhyo mūjavadbhyo 'ṅgebhyo magadhebhyaḥ | praiṣyan janam iva śevadhiṃ takmānaṃ pari dadmasi ||14||
To the Gandhāris, the Mūjavants, the An̄gas, the Magadhas, like one sending a person a treasure, do we commit the fever.
Translated by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
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