Library·Ṛgveda Saṃhitā·10·10.161

Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 10.161

मुञ्चामि त्वा हविषा जीवनाय कम् अज्ञातयक्ष्माद् उत राजयक्ष्मात् । ग्राहिर् जग्राह यदि वैतद् एनं तस्या इन्द्राग्नी प्र मुमुक्तम् एनम् ॥

muñcāmi tvā haviṣā jīvanāya kam ajñātayakṣmād uta rājayakṣmāt | grāhir jagrāha yadi vaitad enaṃ tasyā indrāgnī pra mumuktam enam ||

For life I set thee free by this oblation from the unknown decline and from Consumption; Or, if the grasping demon have possessed him, free him from her, O Indra, thou and Agni.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

यदि क्षितायुर् यदि वा परेतो यदि मृत्योर् अन्तिकं नीत एव । तम् आ हरामि निरृतेर् उपस्थाद् अस्पार्षम् एनं शतशारदाय ॥

yadi kṣitāyur yadi vā pareto yadi mṛtyor antikaṃ nīta eva | tam ā harāmi nirṛter upasthād aspārṣam enaṃ śataśāradāya ||

Be his days ended, be he now departed, be he brought very near to death already, Out of Destruction's lap again I bring him, save him for life to last a hundred autumns.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

सहस्राक्षेण शतशारदेन शतायुषा हविषाहार्षम् एनम् । शतं यथेमं शरदो नयातीन्द्रो विश्वस्य दुरितस्य पारम् ॥

sahasrākṣeṇa śataśāradena śatāyuṣā haviṣāhārṣam enam | śataṃ yathemaṃ śarado nayātīndro viśvasya duritasya pāram ||

With hundred-eyed oblation, hundred-autumned, bringing a hundred lives, have I restored him, That Indra for a hundred years may lead him safe to the farther shore of all misfortune.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

शतं जीव शरदो वर्धमानः शतं हेमन्ताञ् छतम् उ वसन्तान् । शतम् इन्द्राग्नी सविता बृहस्पतिः शतायुषा हविषेमम् पुनर् दुः ॥

śataṃ jīva śarado vardhamānaḥ śataṃ hemantāñ chatam u vasantān | śatam indrāgnī savitā bṛhaspatiḥ śatāyuṣā haviṣemam punar duḥ ||

Live, waxing in thy strength, a hundred autumns, live through a hundred springs, a hundred winters. Through hundred-lived oblation Indra, Agni, Brhaspati, Savitar yield him for a hundred!

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

आहार्षं त्वाविदं त्वा पुनर् आगाः पुनर्नव । सर्वाङ्ग सर्वं ते चक्षुः सर्वम् आयुश् च ते ऽविदम् ॥

āhārṣaṃ tvāvidaṃ tvā punar āgāḥ punarnava | sarvāṅga sarvaṃ te cakṣuḥ sarvam āyuś ca te 'vidam ||

So have I found and rescued thee thou hast returned with youth renewed. Whole in thy members! I have found thy sight and all thy life for thee.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)