षट्च मे षष्टिश्च मेऽपवक्तार ओषधे । ऋतजात ऋतावरि मधु मे मधुला करः
Six and sixty are my defenders, O herb; born of truth, protected by truth, make sweet for me the honey and the honey-bearer.
सप्त च मे सप्ततिश्च मेऽपवक्तार ओषधे । ऋतजात ऋतावरि मधु मे मधुला करः
Seven and seventy are my defenders, O herb; born of truth, protected by truth, make sweet for me the honey and the honey-bearer.
अष्ट च मेऽशीतिश्च मेऽपवक्तार ओषधे । ऋतजात ऋतावरि मधु मे मधुला करः
Eight and eighty are my utterers, O herb; born of truth, bearing truth, may honey and honey-handedness be mine.
नव च मे नवतिश्च मेऽपवक्तार ओषधे । ऋतजात ऋतावरि मधु मे मधुला करः
Nine and ninety are my utterers, O herb; born of truth, bearing truth, may honey and honey-handedness be mine.
दश च मे शतं च मेऽपवक्तार ओषधे । ऋतजात ऋतावरि मधु मे मधुला करः
Ten and a hundred are my utterers, O herb; born of truth, bearing truth, may honey and honey-handedness be mine.
शतं च मे सहस्रं चापवक्तार ओषधे । ऋतजात ऋतावरि मधु मे मधुला करः
A hundred and a thousand are my utterers, O herb; born of truth, bearing truth, may honey and honey-handedness be mine.
यद्येकवृषोऽसि सृजारसोऽसि
If you are one-year-old, you are full of juice.
यदि द्विवृषोऽसि सृजारसोऽसि
If you are two-year-old, you are full of juice.
यदि त्रिवृसोऽसि सृजारसोऽसि
If you are three-year-old, you are full of juice.
यदि चतुर्वृषोऽसि सृजारसोऽसि
If you are four-year-old, you are full of juice.
यदि पञ्चवृषोऽसि सृजारसोऽसि
If you are five-year-old, you are full of juice.
यदि षड्वृषोऽसि सृजारसोऽसि
If you are six-year-old, you are full of juice.
यदि सप्तवृषोऽसि सृजारसोऽसि
If you are seven-year-old, you are full of juice.
यद्यष्टवृषोऽसि सृजारसोऽसि
If you are eight-year-old, you are full of juice.
यदि नववृषोऽसि सृजारसोऽसि
If you are nine-year-old, you are full of juice.
यदि दशवृषोऽसि सृजारसोऽसि
If you are ten-year-old, you are full of juice.
यद्येकादशोऽसि सोऽपोदकोऽसि
If you are eleven-year-old, you are waterless.
तेऽवदन् प्रथमा ब्रह्मकिल्बिषेऽकूपारः सलिलो मातरिश्वा । वीडुहरास्तप उग्रं मयोभूरापो देवीः प्रथमजा ऋतस्य
They spoke: the first in the sin of Brahman, the wellless, water, Mātariśvan; those who carry away the enclosure, heat, fierce, bringer of joy, divine waters, firstborn of truth.
सोमो राजा प्रथमो ब्रह्मजायां पुनः प्रायच्छदहृणीयमानः । अन्वर्तिता वरुणो मित्र आसीदग्निर्होता हस्तगृह्या निनाय
Soma the king was first in the Brahman's wife, again he gave her, being taken away; Varuṇa and Mitra followed, Agni the priest led her, grasping her by the hand.
हस्तेनैव ग्राह्य आधिरस्या ब्रह्मजायेति चेदवोचत्। न दूताय प्रहेया तस्थ एषा तथा राष्ट्रं गुपितं क्षत्रियस्य
She is to be grasped only by the hand, as the seat of the Brahman's wife, so it was said; she is not to be sent to a messenger, she stands thus, so the realm is guarded for the ruler.
यामाहुस्तारकैषा विकेशीति दुच्छुनां ग्राममवपद्यमानाम् । सा ब्रह्मजाया वि दुनोति राष्ट्रं यत्र प्रापादि शश उल्कुषीमान्
That one whom they call the star-haired, the disheveled, who brings misfortune as she enters a village—she is the Brahmin's wife, and she scatters the kingdom where the hare, bearing a blazing brand, has arrived.
ब्रह्मचारी चरति वेविषद्विषः स देवानां भवत्येकमङ्गम् । तेन जायामन्वविन्दद्बृहस्पतिः सोमेन नीतां जुह्वं न देवाः
The celibate moves about, free from hatred, and he becomes a limb of the gods; by him, Bṛhaspati found the wife, whom the gods, led by Soma, had carried away like an oblation.
देवा वा एतस्यामवदन्त पूर्वे सप्तऋषयस्तपसा ये निषेदुः । भीमा जाया ब्राह्मणस्यापनीता दुर्धां दधाति परमे व्योमन्
The gods, indeed, spoke about her, and the ancient Seven Sages, who sat with austerity; the terrible wife of the Brahmin, once taken away, places a grievous burden in the highest heaven.
ये गर्भा अवपद्यन्ते जगद्यच्चापलुप्यते । वीरा ये तृह्यन्ते मिथो ब्रह्मजाया हिनस्ति तान्
Those embryos that are cast down, whatever moves and is destroyed, and those heroes who perish in mutual strife—the Brahmin's wife brings harm to them.
उत यत्पतयो दश स्त्रियाः पूर्वे अब्राह्मणाः । ब्रह्मा चेद्धस्तमग्रहीत्स एव पतिरेकधा
And even if a woman had ten previous husbands who were not Brahmins, if the Brahmin grasps her hand, he alone is her husband in truth.
ब्राह्मण एव पतिर्न राजन्यो न वैश्यः । तत्सूर्यः प्रब्रुवन्न् एति पञ्चभ्यो मानवेभ्यः
The Brahmin alone is the husband—not the Kṣatriya, not the Vaiśya; thus the Sun proclaims this to the five races of men.
पुनर्वै देवा अददुः पुनर्मनुष्या अददुः । राजानः सत्यं गृह्णाना ब्रह्मजायां पुनर्ददुः
Indeed, the gods restored her, and men restored her; the kings, upholding truth, restored the Brahmin's wife.
पुनर्दाय ब्रह्मजायां कृत्वा देवैर्निकिल्बिषम् । ऊर्जं पृथिव्या भक्त्वोरुगायमुपासते
Having restored the Brahmin's wife, making her free from guilt with the gods, they partake of the earth's nourishment and abundant praise.
नास्य जाया शतवाही कल्याणी तल्पमा शये । यस्मिन् राष्ट्रे निरुध्यते ब्रह्मजायाचित्त्या
His wife does not lie on a splendid, well-adorned couch, in that kingdom where the Brahmin's wife is held in captivity.
न विकर्णः पृथुशिरास्तस्मिन् वेश्मनि जायते । यस्मिन् राष्ट्रे निरुध्यते ब्रह्मजायाचित्त्या
No one with mutilated ears or a broad head is born in that house, in that kingdom where the Brahmin's wife is held in captivity.