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Prayer to Indra Against Demons
O priests, press the Soma and cleanse it for Indra, who shall listen to the praise of devotees and to my call.
Do thou, O exuberant Indra, into whom enter the drops of Soma as birds a tree, drive away the evil brood of the demons.
Press ye the Soma for the Soma-enjoyer, the thunder armed Indra, a youthful conqueror, ruler is he, praised greatly by people.
For Securing a Woman's love
Like the creeper embracing the tree on all sides, do thou embrace me, that thou mayest be one loving me and not be averse to me.
As the eagle, flying forth, beats down his wings upon the earth, so do I hold thy mind that thou mayest be one loving me and not be averse to me.
As the sun goes about heaven and earth, thus do I go about thy mind so that thou mayest be one loving me and not be averse to me.
For Securing a Woman's Love
Long thou for my body, for my feet, for my eyes and for my thighs! May the eyes and the hair of thee, lusting after me be parched with love.
I make thee cling to my arm, cling to my heart, that thou mayest be under my control, mayest come to my desire!
May the kine, mothers of ghee, who lick their calves, in whose heart love is planted, make the yonder woman bestow love on me!
For Gaining a Son
The asvattha has mounted the shamim, then a male child was born. That verily is the way to obtain a male child, that do we bring to our women.
In the male indeed both grow the seed, that is poured forth into the women. That indeed is the way to obtain a son. It has been proclaimed by Prajapati.
Prajapati, Anumati, and Sinivali have fashioned him. May Prajapati put elsewhere a female birth, but here may he cause to bear a male.
Against Miscarriage
Just as this great earth bore the seed of all existence, so she may conceive a child and bear a son!
Just as this great earth bears these trees of the forest, so shall thou hold fast thy embryo, to bear a child after pregnancy.
Just as this great earth holds the mountains and the peaks, so shalt thou hold fast thy embryo, to bear a child after pregnancy.
Just as this great earth holds the various living creatures, so shalt thou hold fast thy embryo to bear a child after pregnancy!
Against Jealousy
The first current of jealousy, and the second after the first, the fire, the heart-burning, these do we drive away from thee!
As the earth is dead in spirit, more dead than the dead man, and as the spirit of him that has died, so shall the spirit of the jealous person be dead!
The fluttering spirit that abides in your heart, from it do I wipe away jealousy, as the hot air from a skin-bag.
Against Fever (Takman)
The fever (takman) who comes as if from this fire burning and flashing here, may he go away like a babbling drunkard from me. May he, the evil one, seek some other man and not ourselves. Homage be to fever, possessing a burning weapon!
Homage be to Rudra, homage to the takman fever, homage to king Varuna, the effulgent, homage to heaven, homage to Earth and to the planets!
To thee here, who burns greatly and makes all bodies pale, to thee here, to the red, to the brown, to the takman, do I reverence.
To the Waters for Cure
The waters flow forth from the snowy heights, and gather somewhere in the Sindhu. May they, the divine ones grant me the healing balm for my heart-ache!
The burning sensation that harm my eyes, and that which pains my heels, my fore-feet, may the Waters cure that, they the most skilled physicians!
Ye streams all, whose mistress is Sindhu, whose queen is Sindhu, grant us the cure for that, through this cure may we enjoy you.
Against Sores and Pain
The sores, the five and fifty that have collected on the neck, may they all go away from here like the noise of the disease apakit.
The sores, the seven and seventy that have collected on the neck, may they all pass away from here, etc. etc.
The sores, the nine and ninety that have collected on the shoulders, may they all go away hence etc. etc.
For Averting Evil
Let me go, O evil, being thou mighty, be kind to us! Set me free and unharmed, O evil, into the world of joy!
If, O evil, you do not leave us, here do we leave you at this parting of the roads. May evil follow another man!
Far off from us may the thousand-eyed immortal evil dwell. Let him strike one whom we hate, and him whom we hate, may he surely strike!
Against Ominous Birds
O gods, if the dove sent as the messenger of Death, come seeking us, we shall sing praises and worship him. May our bipeds prosper, may our quandrupeds prosper!
May the dove thus sent be propitious to us; may harmless be the bird to us, O gods. Let the seer Agni enjoy our oblation, let the winged missile avoid us!
May the winged missile not injure us; it makes its track on our hearth, our fireplace. May be it be auspicious to our kine and men, let it not harm us, O gods.
Against Ominous Owls
May the winged missile fall upon those yonder men. What the owl shrieks, be that futile, or in case the dove makes its track upon the fire place.
To both thy messengers, O goddess of Death, that come hither, sent or not sent to her house, to the dove and to the owl. This shall be no place to make a track.
It shall not fly hither to destroy our heroes, may it settle here to keep our heroes sound and fit. Send him off to a distant place so that in Yama's abode people may behold you deprived of strength and devoid of power.
To the Rising Sun
This spotted steer has come hither, and has sat on the mother Earth in the east. And now he is marching forward to his sire the Heaven.
He, the Sun moves about the brilliant spaces, from his our-breath pervades the whole Universe. He the bull has looked forth into the heavens.
He is the overlord of thirty domains. The voice, the triple knowledge of the Vedas also abides in its refuge.
Against Hostile Spells
Here has come forth the thousand-eyed curse having harnessed his chariot, seeking out my curser, as does a wolf the house of a sheep-owner.
O curse, avoid us as does a burning fire a lake. Strike thou our curser here, as a lightning from the sky strikes the tree.
Whoever shall curse us when we do not curse, and whoever shall curse us when we do curse, him I throw to death as a bone to a dog.
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