देवास्ते चीतिमविदन् ब्रह्माण उत वीरुधः । चीतिं ते विश्वे देवा अविदन् भूम्यामधि
The gods, the Brahmans, and the plants have known the remedy. All the gods have known the remedy upon the earth.
यश्चकार स निष्करत्स एव सुभिषक्तमः । स एव तुभ्यं भेषजानि कृणवद्भिषजा शुचिः
He who made it, he departed; he alone is the best of healers. He alone, pure one, prepares remedies for you, O physician.
क्षेत्रियात्त्वा निर्ऋत्या जामिशंसाद्द्रुहो मुञ्चामि वरुणस्य पाशात्। अनागसं ब्रह्मणा त्वा कृणोमि शिवे ते द्यावापृथिवी उभे स्ताम्
From the field, from destruction, from the curse of kin, from harm, I release you from Varuṇa’s noose. I make you guiltless through the Brahman; may both Heaven and Earth be auspicious for you.
शं ते अग्निः सहाद्भिरस्तु शं सोमः सहौषधीभिः । एवाहं त्वां क्षेत्रियान् निर्ऋत्या जामिशंसाद्द्रुहो मुञ्चामि वरुणस्य पाशात्। अनागसं ब्रह्मणा त्वा कृणोमि शिवे ते द्यावापृथिवी उभे स्ताम्
May Agni be auspicious to you with his companions, may Soma be auspicious to you with the healing herbs. Thus I release you from the field, from destruction, from the curse of kin, from harm, from Varuṇa’s noose. I make you guiltless through the Brahman; may both Heaven and Earth be auspicious for you.
शं ते वातो अन्तरिक्षे वयो धाच्छं ते भवन्तु प्रदिशश्चतस्रः । एवाहं त्वां क्षेत्रियान् निर्ऋत्या जामिशंसाद्द्रुहो मुञ्चामि वरुणस्य पाशात्। अनागसं ब्रह्मणा त्वा कृणोमि शिवे ते द्यावापृथिवी उभे स्ताम्
May the wind in the midspace be auspicious to you, may the four directions be favorable to you. Thus I release you from the field, from destruction, from the curse of kin, from harm, from Varuṇa’s noose. I make you guiltless through the Brahman; may both Heaven and Earth be auspicious for you.
इमा या देवीः प्रदिशश्चतस्रो वातपत्नीरभि सूर्यो विचष्टे । एवाहं त्वां क्षेत्रियान् निर्ऋत्या जामिशंसाद्द्रुहो मुञ्चामि वरुणस्य पाशात्। अनागसं ब्रह्मणा त्वा कृणोमि शिवे ते द्यावापृथिवी उभे स्ताम्
These four divine directions, wives of the wind, the sun surveys. Thus I release you from the field, from destruction, from the curse of kin, from harm, from Varuṇa’s noose. I make you guiltless through the Brahman; may both Heaven and Earth be auspicious for you.
तासु त्वान्तर्जरस्या दधामि प्र यक्ष्म एतु निर्ऋतिः पराचैः । एवाहं त्वां क्षेत्रियान् निर्ऋत्या जामिशंसाद्द्रुहो मुञ्चामि वरुणस्य पाशात्। अनागसं ब्रह्मणा त्वा कृणोमि शिवे ते द्यावापृथिवी उभे स्ताम्
In them I place you, hidden within; let disease and destruction go far away. Thus I release you from the field, from destruction, from the curse of kin, from harm, from Varuṇa’s noose. I make you guiltless through the Brahman; may both Heaven and Earth be auspicious for you.
अमुक्था यक्ष्माद्दुरितादवद्याद्द्रुहः पाशाद्ग्राह्याश्चोदमुक्थाः । एवाहं त्वां क्षेत्रियान् निर्ऋत्या जामिशंसाद्द्रुहो मुञ्चामि वरुणस्य पाशात्। अनागसं ब्रह्मणा त्वा कृणोमि शिवे ते द्यावापृथिवी उभे स्ताम्
You are released from disease, from misfortune, from blame, from the noose of harm, and from all that is grasping. Thus I release you from the field, from destruction, from the curse of kin, from harm, from Varuṇa’s noose. I make you guiltless through the Brahman; may both Heaven and Earth be auspicious for you.
अहा अरातिमविदः स्योनमप्यभूर्भद्रे सुकृतस्य लोके । एवाहं त्वां क्षेत्रियान् निर्ऋत्या जामिशंसाद्द्रुहो मुञ्चामि वरुणस्य पाशात्। अनागसं ब्रह्मणा त्वा कृणोमि शिवे ते द्यावापृथिवी उभे स्ताम्
Today you have found freedom from enmity, you have become pleasant, you have entered the world of the fortunate. Thus I release you from the field, from destruction, from the curse of kin, from harm, from Varuṇa’s noose. I make you guiltless through the Brahman; may both Heaven and Earth be auspicious for you.
सूर्यमृतं तमसो ग्राह्या अधि देवा मुञ्चन्तो असृजन् निरेनसः । एवाहं त्वां क्षेत्रियान् निर्ऋत्या जामिशंसाद्द्रुहो मुञ्चामि वरुणस्य पाशात्। अनागसं ब्रह्मणा त्वा कृणोमि शिवे ते द्यावापृथिवी उभे स्ताम्
The gods, releasing him from the grasp of darkness, set him forth, sinless, into the immortal light of the sun. Thus I release you from the field, from destruction, from the curse of kin, from harm, from Varuṇa’s noose. I make you guiltless through the Brahman; may both Heaven and Earth be auspicious for you.
दूष्या दूषिरसि हेत्या हेतिरसि मेन्या मेनिरसि । आप्नुहि श्रेयांसमति समं क्राम
You are a purifier, a weapon; you are a missile, a defender. Attain greater good, proceed together in harmony.
स्रक्त्योऽसि प्रतिसरोऽसि प्रत्यभिचरणोऽसि । आप्नुहि श्रेयांसमति समं क्राम
You are a sling, you are a counter-charm, you are a counter-curse. Attain greater good, proceed together in harmony.
प्रति तमभि चर योऽस्मान् द्वेष्टि यं वयं द्विष्मः । आप्नुहि श्रेयांसमति समं क्राम
Go against him who hates us, whom we hate. Attain greater good, proceed together in harmony.
सूरिरसि वर्चोधा असि तनूपानोऽसि । आप्नुहि श्रेयांसमति समं क्राम
You are wise, you are endowed with power, you are a protector of the body. Attain greater good, proceed together in harmony.
शुक्रोऽसि भ्राजोऽसि स्वरसि ज्योतिरसि । आप्नुहि श्रेयांसमति समं क्राम
You are bright, you are radiant, you are luminous, you are light. Attain greater good, proceed together in harmony.
द्यावापृथिवी उर्वन्तरिक्षं क्षेत्रस्य पत्न्युरुगायोऽद्भुतः । उतान्तरिक्षमुरु वातगोपं त इह तप्यन्तां मयि तप्यमाने
Heaven and Earth, the broad midspace, the field’s mistress, vast and wondrous— and the wide midspace, protected by the wind— may they burn here as I burn.
इदं देवाः शृणुत ये यज्ञिया स्थ भरद्वाजो मह्यमुक्थानि शंसति । पाशे स बद्धो दुरिते नि युज्यतां यो अस्माकं मन इदं हिनस्ति
Hear this, O gods, you who are worthy of sacrifice; Bharadvāja proclaims hymns for me. May the one among us whose mind brings us harm be bound fast in the snare of evil.
इदमिन्द्र शृणुहि सोमप यत्त्वा हृदा शोचता जोहवीमि । वृश्चामि तं कुलिशेनेव वृक्षं यो अस्माकं मन इदं हिनस्ति
Hear this, O Indra, drinker of Soma, whom I call with a grieving heart. I cut off that one, as with the thunderbolt a tree, whose mind among us brings us harm.
अशीतिभिस्तिसृभिः सामगेभिरादित्येभिर्वसुभिरङ्गिरोभिः । इष्टापूर्तमवतु नः पितॄणामामुं ददे हरसा दैव्येन
With eighty and three singers, with the Ādityas, the Vasus, and the Angirases, may the offerings and good deeds of our ancestors protect us; I give this with divine force.
द्यावापृथिवी अनु मा दीधीथां विश्वे देवासो अनु मा रभध्वम् । अङ्गिरसः पितरः सोम्यासः पापमार्छत्वपकामस्य कर्ता
May Heaven and Earth shine upon me; may all the gods support me. May the Angirasa ancestors, full of Soma, drive away the evil of the one who acts with ill intent.
अतीव यो मरुतो मन्यते नो ब्रह्म वा यो निन्दिषत्क्रियमाणम् । तपूंषि तस्मै वृजिनानि सन्तु ब्रह्मद्विषं द्यौरभिसंतपाति
Whoever, O Maruts, thinks himself too great for us, or whoever reviles our prayer as it is being made—may sufferings and misfortunes befall him; Heaven itself oppresses the hater of prayer.
सप्त प्राणान् अष्टौ मन्यस्तांस्ते वृश्चामि ब्रह्मणा । अया यमस्य सादनमग्निदूतो अरंकृतः
The seven breaths, the eight thoughts—I cut them off with the power of prayer. By this, the messenger of Yama, Agni, has made the seat of death powerless.
आ दधामि ते पदं समिद्धे जातवेदसि । अग्निः शरीरं वेवेष्ट्वसुं वागपि गच्छतु
I place your step in the kindled Jātavedas. May Agni envelop the body; may the breath and speech depart as they should.
आयुर्दा अग्ने जरसं वृणानो घृतप्रतीको घृतपृष्ठो अग्ने । घृतं पीत्वा मधु चारु गव्यं पितेव पुत्रान् अभि रक्षतादिमम्
Grant long life, O Agni, choosing vigor; O Agni, with ghee as your front and back. Having drunk the ghee, the sweet, the cow's gift, protect this one as a father protects his sons.
परि धत्त धत्त नो वर्चसेमं जरामृत्युं कृणुत दीर्घमायुः । बृहस्पतिः प्रायच्छद्वास एतत्सोमाय राज्ञे परिधातवा उ
Bestow, bestow upon us brilliance; remove old age and death, grant long life. Bṛhaspati has given this garment; let it be put on for Soma, the king.
परीदं वासो अधिथाः स्वस्तयेऽभूर्गृष्टीनामभिशस्तिपा उ । शतं च जीव शरदः पुरूची रायश्च पोषमुपसंव्ययस्व
May you put on this garment for well-being; you have become the protector of dwellings, the warder-off of curses. Live a hundred autumns, O wide-seeing one, and gather abundant wealth and prosperity.
एह्यश्मानमा तिष्ठाश्मा भवतु ते तनूः । कृण्वन्तु विश्वे देवा आयुष्टे शरदः शतम्
Come, stand firm as a stone; let your body be as hard as stone. May all the gods grant you a hundred years of life.
यस्य ते वासः प्रथमवास्यं हरामस्तं त्वा विश्वेऽवन्तु देवाः । तं त्वा भ्रातरः सुवृधा वर्धमानमनु जायन्तां बहवः सुजातम्
Of the garment which is your first clothing, I take that for you; may all the gods protect you. May your strong brothers be born after you, many and well-born, growing together.
निःसालां धृष्णुं धिषणमेकवाद्यां जिघत्स्वम् । सर्वाश्चण्डस्य नप्त्यो नाशयामः सदान्वाः
We destroy the rootless, the bold, the one-minded, the greedy, and all the offspring of the fierce one, the constant foes.
निर्वो गोष्ठादजामसि निरक्षान् निरुपानशात्। निर्वो मगुन्द्या दुहितरो गृहेभ्यश्चातयामहे
We drive you out from the cow-pen, from the goats, from the oxen, from the shoes; we drive you out, Magundya's daughters, from the houses.