Library·Ṛgveda Saṃhitā·10·10.87

Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 10.87

रक्षोहणं वाजिनम् आ जिघर्मि मित्रम् प्रथिष्ठम् उप यामि शर्म । शिशानो अग्निः क्रतुभिः समिद्धः स नो दिवा स रिषः पातु नक्तम् ॥

rakṣohaṇaṃ vājinam ā jigharmi mitram prathiṣṭham upa yāmi śarma | śiśāno agniḥ kratubhiḥ samiddhaḥ sa no divā sa riṣaḥ pātu naktam ||

I BALM with oil the mighty Raksas-slayer; to the most famous Friend I come for shelter Enkindled, sharpened by our rites, may Agni protect us in the day and night from evil.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

अयोदंष्ट्रो अर्चिषा यातुधानान् उप स्पृश जातवेदः समिद्धः । आ जिह्वया मूरदेवान् रभस्व क्रव्यादो वृक्त्व्य् अपि धत्स्वासन् ॥

ayodaṃṣṭro arciṣā yātudhānān upa spṛśa jātavedaḥ samiddhaḥ | ā jihvayā mūradevān rabhasva kravyādo vṛktvy api dhatsvāsan ||

O Jatavedas with the teeth of iron, enkindled with thy flame attack the demons. Seize with thy longue the foolish gods' adorers: rend, put within thy mouth the raw-flesh caters.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

उभोभयाविन्न् उप धेहि दंष्ट्रा हिंस्रः शिशानो ऽवरम् परं च । उतान्तरिक्षे परि याहि राजञ् जम्भैः सं धेह्य् अभि यातुधानान् ॥

ubhobhayāvinn upa dhehi daṃṣṭrā hiṃsraḥ śiśāno 'varam paraṃ ca | utāntarikṣe pari yāhi rājañ jambhaiḥ saṃ dhehy abhi yātudhānān ||

Apply thy teeth, the upper and the lower, thou who hast both, enkindled and destroying. Roam also in the air, O King, around us, and with thy jaws assail the wicked spirits.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

यज्ञैर् इषूः संनममानो अग्ने वाचा शल्यां अशनिभिर् दिहानः । ताभिर् विध्य हृदये यातुधानान् प्रतीचो बाहून् प्रति भङ्ध्य् एषाम् ॥

yajñair iṣūḥ saṃnamamāno agne vācā śalyāṃ aśanibhir dihānaḥ | tābhir vidhya hṛdaye yātudhānān pratīco bāhūn prati bhaṅdhy eṣām ||

Bending thy shafts through sacrifices, Agni, whetting their points with song as if with whetstones, Pierce to the heart therewith the Yatudhanas, and break their arms uplifted to attack thee.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

अग्ने त्वचं यातुधानस्य भिन्धि हिंस्राशनिर् हरसा हन्त्व् एनम् । प्र पर्वाणि जातवेदः शृणीहि क्रव्यात् क्रविष्णुर् वि चिनोतु वृक्णम् ॥

agne tvacaṃ yātudhānasya bhindhi hiṃsrāśanir harasā hantv enam | pra parvāṇi jātavedaḥ śṛṇīhi kravyāt kraviṣṇur vi cinotu vṛkṇam ||

Pierce through the Yatudhana's skin, O Agni; let the destroying dart with fire consume him. Rend his joints, Jatavedas, let the cater of flesh, flesh-seeking, track his mangled body.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

यत्रेदानीम् पश्यसि जातवेदस् तिष्ठन्तम् अग्न उत वा चरन्तम् । यद् वान्तरिक्षे पथिभिः पतन्तं तम् अस्ता विध्य शर्वा शिशानः ॥

yatredānīm paśyasi jātavedas tiṣṭhantam agna uta vā carantam | yad vāntarikṣe pathibhiḥ patantaṃ tam astā vidhya śarvā śiśānaḥ ||

Where now thou seest Agni Jatavedas, one of these demons standing still or roaming, Or flying on those paths in air's mid region, sharpen the shaft and as an archer pierce him.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

उतालब्धं स्पृणुहि जातवेद आलेभानाद् ऋष्टिभिर् यातुधानात् । अग्ने पूर्वो नि जहि शोशुचान आमादः क्ष्विङ्कास् तम् अदन्त्व् एनीः ॥

utālabdhaṃ spṛṇuhi jātaveda ālebhānād ṛṣṭibhir yātudhānāt | agne pūrvo ni jahi śośucāna āmādaḥ kṣviṅkās tam adantv enīḥ ||

Tear from the evil spirit, Jatavedas, what he hath seized and with his spears hath captured. Blazing before him strike him down, O Agni; let spotted carrion-eating kites devour him.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

इह प्र ब्रूहि यतमः सो अग्ने यो यातुधानो य इदं कृणोति । तम् आ रभस्व समिधा यविष्ठ नृचक्षसश् चक्षुषे रन्धयैनम् ॥

iha pra brūhi yatamaḥ so agne yo yātudhāno ya idaṃ kṛṇoti | tam ā rabhasva samidhā yaviṣṭha nṛcakṣasaś cakṣuṣe randhayainam ||

Here tell this forth, O Agni: whosoever is, he himself, or acteth as, a demon, Him grasp, O thou Most Youthful, with thy fuel. to the Mati-seer's eye give him as booty.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

तीक्ष्णेनाग्ने चक्षुषा रक्ष यज्ञम् प्राञ्चं वसुभ्यः प्र णय प्रचेतः । हिंस्रं रक्षांस्य् अभि शोशुचानम् मा त्वा दभन् यातुधाना नृचक्षः ॥

tīkṣṇenāgne cakṣuṣā rakṣa yajñam prāñcaṃ vasubhyaḥ pra ṇaya pracetaḥ | hiṃsraṃ rakṣāṃsy abhi śośucānam mā tvā dabhan yātudhānā nṛcakṣaḥ ||

With keen glance guard the sacrifice, O Agni: thou Sage, conduct it onward to the Vasus. Let not the fiends, O Man-beholder, harm thee burning against the Raksasas to slay them.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

नृचक्षा रक्षः परि पश्य विक्षु तस्य त्रीणि प्रति शृणीह्य् अग्रा । तस्याग्ने पृष्टीर् हरसा शृणीहि त्रेधा मूलं यातुधानस्य वृश्च ॥

nṛcakṣā rakṣaḥ pari paśya vikṣu tasya trīṇi prati śṛṇīhy agrā | tasyāgne pṛṣṭīr harasā śṛṇīhi tredhā mūlaṃ yātudhānasya vṛśca ||

Look on the fiend mid men, as Man-beholder: rend thou his three extremities in pieces. Demolish with thy flame his ribs, O Agni, the Yatudhana's root destroy thou triply.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

त्रिर् यातुधानः प्रसितिं त एत्व् ऋतं यो अग्ने अनृतेन हन्ति । तम् अर्चिषा स्फूर्जयञ् जातवेदः समक्षम् एनं गृणते नि वृङ्धि ॥

trir yātudhānaḥ prasitiṃ ta etv ṛtaṃ yo agne anṛtena hanti | tam arciṣā sphūrjayañ jātavedaḥ samakṣam enaṃ gṛṇate ni vṛṅdhi ||

Thrice, Agni, let thy noose surround the demon who with his falsehood injures Holy Order. Loud roaring with thy flame, O Jatavedas, crush him and cast him down before the singer.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

तद् अग्ने चक्षुः प्रति धेहि रेभे शफारुजं येन पश्यसि यातुधानम् । अथर्ववज् ज्योतिषा दैव्येन सत्यं धूर्वन्तम् अचितं न्य् ओष ॥

tad agne cakṣuḥ prati dhehi rebhe śaphārujaṃ yena paśyasi yātudhānam | atharvavaj jyotiṣā daivyena satyaṃ dhūrvantam acitaṃ ny oṣa ||

Lead thou the worshipper that eye, O Agni, wherewith thou lookest on the hoof-armed demon. With light celestial in Atharvan's manner burn up the foot who ruins truth with falsehood.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

यद् अग्ने अद्य मिथुना शपातो यद् वाचस् तृष्टं जनयन्त रेभाः । मन्योर् मनसः शरव्या जायते या तया विध्य हृदये यातुधानान् ॥

yad agne adya mithunā śapāto yad vācas tṛṣṭaṃ janayanta rebhāḥ | manyor manasaḥ śaravyā jāyate yā tayā vidhya hṛdaye yātudhānān ||

Agni, what curse the pair this day have uttered, what heated word the worshippers have spoken, Each arrowy taunt sped from the angry spirit,-pierce to the heart therewith the Yatudhanas.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

परा शृणीहि तपसा यातुधानान् पराग्ने रक्षो हरसा शृणीहि । परार्चिषा मूरदेवाञ् छृणीहि परासुतृपो अभि शोशुचानः ॥

parā śṛṇīhi tapasā yātudhānān parāgne rakṣo harasā śṛṇīhi | parārciṣā mūradevāñ chṛṇīhi parāsutṛpo abhi śośucānaḥ ||

With fervent heat exterminate the demons; destroy the fiends with burning flame, O Agni. Destroy with fire the foolish gods' adorers; blaze and destroy the insatiable monsters.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

पराद्य देवा वृजिनं शृणन्तु प्रत्यग् एनं शपथा यन्तु तृष्टाः । वाचास्तेनं शरव ऋच्छन्तु मर्मन् विश्वस्यैतु प्रसितिं यातुधानः ॥

parādya devā vṛjinaṃ śṛṇantu pratyag enaṃ śapathā yantu tṛṣṭāḥ | vācāstenaṃ śarava ṛcchantu marman viśvasyaitu prasitiṃ yātudhānaḥ ||

May Gods destroy this day the evil-doer may each hot curse of his return and blast him. Let arrows pierce the liar in his vitals, and Visva's net enclose the Yatudhana.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

यः पौरुषेयेण क्रविषा समङ्क्ते यो अश्व्येन पशुना यातुधानः । यो अघ्न्याया भरति क्षीरम् अग्ने तेषां शीर्षाणि हरसापि वृश्च ॥

yaḥ pauruṣeyeṇa kraviṣā samaṅkte yo aśvyena paśunā yātudhānaḥ | yo aghnyāyā bharati kṣīram agne teṣāṃ śīrṣāṇi harasāpi vṛśca ||

The fiend who smears himself with flesh of cattle, with flesh of horses and of human bodies, Who steals the milch-cow's milk away, O Agni,-tear off the heads of such with fiery fury.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

संवत्सरीणम् पय उस्रियायास् तस्य माशीद् यातुधानो नृचक्षः । पीयूषम् अग्ने यतमस् तितृप्सात् तम् प्रत्यञ्चम् अर्चिषा विध्य मर्मन् ॥

saṃvatsarīṇam paya usriyāyās tasya māśīd yātudhāno nṛcakṣaḥ | pīyūṣam agne yatamas titṛpsāt tam pratyañcam arciṣā vidhya marman ||

The cow gives milk each year, O Man-regarder: let not the Yatudhana ever taste it. If one would glut him with the biesting, Agni, pierce with thy flame his vitals as he meets thee.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

विषं गवां यातुधानाः पिबन्त्व् आ वृश्च्यन्ताम् अदितये दुरेवाः । परैनान् देवः सविता ददातु परा भागम् ओषधीनां जयन्ताम् ॥

viṣaṃ gavāṃ yātudhānāḥ pibantv ā vṛścyantām aditaye durevāḥ | parainān devaḥ savitā dadātu parā bhāgam oṣadhīnāṃ jayantām ||

Let the fiends drink the poison of the cattle; may Aditi cast off the evildoers. May the God Savitar give them up to ruin, and be their share of plants and herbs denied them.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

सनाद् अग्ने मृणसि यातुधानान् न त्वा रक्षांसि पृतनासु जिग्युः । अनु दह सहमूरान् क्रव्यादो मा ते हेत्या मुक्षत दैव्यायाः ॥

sanād agne mṛṇasi yātudhānān na tvā rakṣāṃsi pṛtanāsu jigyuḥ | anu daha sahamūrān kravyādo mā te hetyā mukṣata daivyāyāḥ ||

Agni, from days of old thou slayest demons: never shall Raksasas in fight o'ercome thee. Burn up the foolish ones, the flesh-devourers: let none of them escape thine heavenly arrow.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

त्वं नो अग्ने अधराद् उदक्तात् त्वम् पश्चाद् उत रक्षा पुरस्तात् । प्रति ते ते अजरासस् तपिष्ठा अघशंसं शोशुचतो दहन्तु ॥

tvaṃ no agne adharād udaktāt tvam paścād uta rakṣā purastāt | prati te te ajarāsas tapiṣṭhā aghaśaṃsaṃ śośucato dahantu ||

Guard us, O Agni, from above and under, protect us from behind us and before us; And may thy flames, most fierce and never wasting, glowing with fervent heat, consume the sinner.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

पश्चात् पुरस्ताद् अधराद् उदक्तात् कविः काव्येन परि पाहि राजन् । सखे सखायम् अजरो जरिम्णे ऽग्ने मर्तां अमर्त्यस् त्वं नः ॥

paścāt purastād adharād udaktāt kaviḥ kāvyena pari pāhi rājan | sakhe sakhāyam ajaro jarimṇe 'gne martāṃ amartyas tvaṃ naḥ ||

From rear, from front, from under, from above us, O King, protect us as a Sage with wisdom. Guard to old age thy friend, O Friend, Eternal: O Agni, as Immortal, guard us mortals.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

परि त्वाग्ने पुरं वयं विप्रं सहस्य धीमहि । धृषद्वर्णं दिवे-दिवे हन्तारम् भङ्गुरावताम् ॥

pari tvāgne puraṃ vayaṃ vipraṃ sahasya dhīmahi | dhṛṣadvarṇaṃ dive-dive hantāram bhaṅgurāvatām ||

We set thee round us as a fort, victorious Agni, thee a Sage, Of hero lineage, day by day, destroyer of our treacherous foes.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

विषेण भङ्गुरावतः प्रति ष्म रक्षसो दह । अग्ने तिग्मेन शोचिषा तपुरग्राभिर् ऋष्टिभिः ॥

viṣeṇa bhaṅgurāvataḥ prati ṣma rakṣaso daha | agne tigmena śociṣā tapuragrābhir ṛṣṭibhiḥ ||

Burn with thy poison turned against the treacherous brood of Raksasas, O Agni, with thy sharpened glow, with lances armed with points of flame.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

प्रत्य् अग्ने मिथुना दह यातुधाना किमीदिना । सं त्वा शिशामि जागृह्य् अदब्धं विप्र मन्मभिः ॥

praty agne mithunā daha yātudhānā kimīdinā | saṃ tvā śiśāmi jāgṛhy adabdhaṃ vipra manmabhiḥ ||

Burn thou the paired Kimidins, burn, Agni, the Yatudhana pairs. I sharpen thee, Infallible, with hymns. O Sage, be vigilant.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)

प्रत्य् अग्ने हरसा हरः शृणीहि विश्वतः प्रति । यातुधानस्य रक्षसो बलं वि रुज वीर्यम् ॥

praty agne harasā haraḥ śṛṇīhi viśvataḥ prati | yātudhānasya rakṣaso balaṃ vi ruja vīryam ||

Shoot forth, O Agni, with thy flame demolish them on every side. Break thou the Yatudhana's strength, the vigour of the Raksasa.

Translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1896)