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Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1burst : with this verse do I cover that up ! 23. Gently as a mother embrace the son : I unite thee, (pot of) earth, with the earth ! Mayest thou, the hollow pot, not totter upon the altar, when thou art pressed by the tools of sacrifice and the ghee ! 24. May Agni who cooks thee protect thee on the east, Indra with the Maruts protect thee on the south! May Varu/za on the west support thee upon thy foun- dation, may Soma on the north hold thee together ! 25. Purified by the purifiers, the (waters) flow pure from the clouds, they reach to the spaces of heaven, and of the earth. They are alive, refresh the living, and are firmly rooted : may Agni heat them, after they have been poured into the vessel ! 26. From heaven they come, into the earth they penetrate ; from the earth they penetrate into the atmosphere. May they, now pure, yet purify them- selves further ; may they conduct us to the heavenly world ! 27. Whether ye are over-abundant or just suffi- cient, ye are surely clear, pure, and immortal : cook, ye waters, instructed by the husband and wife, obliging and helpful, the porridge ! 28. Counted drops penetrate into the earth, com- mensurate with the breaths of life and the plants. The uncounted golden (drops), that are poured into IX. PRAYERS AND IMPRECATIONS FOR BRAHMANS. 1 89 (the porridge), have, (themselves) pure, established complete purity. 29. The boiling waters rise and sputter, cast up foam and many bubbles. Unite, ye waters, with this grain, as a woman who beholds her husband in the proper season ! 30. Stir up (the grains) as they settle at the bottom : let them mingle their inmost parts with the waters ! The water here I have measured with cups ; measured was the grain, so as to be according to these regulations. 31. Hand over the sickle, with haste bring promptly (the grass for the barhis); without giving pain let them cut the plants at the joints ! They whose kingdom Soma rules, the plants, shall not harbour anger against us ! 32. Strew a new barhis for the porridge : pleasing to its heart, and lovely to its sight it shall be ! Upon it the gods together with the goddesses shall enter ; settle down to this (porridge) in proper order, and eat it ! 33. O (instrument of) wood, settle down upon the strewn barhis, in keeping with the divinities and the agnish/oma rites ! Well shaped, as if by a carpenter (Tvash/ar) with his axe, is thy form. Longing for this (porridge) the (gods) shall be seen about the vessel ! 34.
2strument of) wood, settle down upon the strewn barhis, in keeping with the divinities and the agnish/oma rites ! Well shaped, as if by a carpenter (Tvash/ar) with his axe, is thy form. Longing for this (porridge) the (gods) shall be seen about the vessel ! 34. In sixty autumns the treasurer (of the porridge) shall fetch it, by the cooked grain he shall obtain heaven ; the parents and the children shall live upon it. Bring thou this (man) to heaven, into the presence of Agni ! 35. (Thyself) a holder, (O pot), hold on to the foundation of the earth : thee, that art immoveable I go HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. the gods (alone) shall move ! Man and wife, alive, with living children, shall remove thee from the hearth of the fire ! 36. Thou hast conquered and reached all worlds ; as many as are our wishes, thou hast satisfied them. Dip ye in, stirring stick and spoon ! Place it (the porridge) upon a single dish ! 37. Lay (ghee) upon it, let it spread forth, anoint this dish with ghee ! As the lowing cow her young that craves the breast, ye gods shall greet with sounds of satisfaction this (porridge) ! 38. With ghee thou hast covered it, hast made this place (for the porridge) : may it, peerless, spread afar to heaven ! Upon it shall rest the mighty eagle ;- gods shall offer it to the divinities ! 39. Whatever the wife cooks aside from thee, (O husband), or the husband (cooks) unbeknown of thee, O wife, mix that together : to both of you it shall belong ; bring it together into a single place ! 40. As many of her children as dwell upon the earth, and the sons that have been begotten by him, all those ye shall call up to the dish : on shall come the young knowing their nest ! 41. The goodly streams, swelling with honey, mixed with ghee, the seats of ambrosia, all these does he obtain, ascends to heaven. In sixty autumns the treasurer (of the porridge) shall fetch it ! 42. The treasurer shall fetch this treasure: all outsiders round about shall not control it! The heaven-directed porridge, that has been presented and deposited by us, in three divisions has reached the three heavens. 43. May Agni burn the ungodly Rakshas ; the flesh-devouring Pisa^a shall have nothing here to IX. PRAYERS AND IMPRECATIONS FOR BRAHMANS. 191 partake of! We drive him away, hold him afar from us : the Adityas and Angiras shall stay near it ! 44. To the Adityas and the Angiras do I offer this (food of) honey, mixed with ghee.
3nothing here to IX. PRAYERS AND IMPRECATIONS FOR BRAHMANS. 191 partake of! We drive him away, hold him afar from us : the Adityas and Angiras shall stay near it ! 44. To the Adityas and the Angiras do I offer this (food of) honey, mixed with ghee. Do ye two, (man and wife), with clean hands, without having injured a Brahma^a, performing pious deeds, go to that heavenly world ! 45. I would obtain this highest part of it (the porridge), the place from which the highest lord permeates (the all). Pour butter upon it, anoint it with plentiful ghee : this here is our share, fit for the Angiras ! 46. For the sake of truth and holy strength do we make over this porridge as a hoarded treasure to the gods : it shall not be lost to us in gaming or in the assembly; do not let it go to any other person before me ! 47. I cook, and I give (to the Brahmans), and so, too, my wife, at my religious rite and practice. — With the birth of a son the world of children has arisen (for you) : do ye two hold on to a life that extends beyond (your years) ! 48. In that place exists no guilt, and no duplicity, not even if he goes conspiring with his friends. This full dish of ours has here been deposited : the cooked (porridge) shall come back again to him that cooks it ! 49. Kind deeds we shall perform for our friends : all that hate us shall go to darkness (hell) ! — As (fruitful) cow, and (strong) steer, they (man and wife) shall during every successive period of their lives drive away man-besetting death ! 50. The fires (all) know one another, that which lives in plants, and lives in the waters, and all the I92 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. (light-) gods that glow upon the heaven. The gold (here) becomes the light of him that cooks (the porridge). 51. This (naked skin) among the hides is born upon man (alone), all other animals are not naked. Clothe yourselves, (ye Brahmans), in sheltering garments : (even) the face of the porridge is a home- spun garment ! 52. What falsehood thou shalt speak at play and in the assembly, or the falsehood that thou shalt speak through lust for gain — put on together, (O man and wife), this same garment, deposit upon it every blemish ! 53. Produce rain, go to the gods, let smoke arise from (thy) surface ; all-embracing, about to be covered with ghee, enter as a co-dweller this place ! 54. In many ways heaven assumes within itself a different form, according to circumstances. It (the heaven) has laid aside its black form, purifying itself to a bright (form) ; the red form do I sacrifice for thee into the fire. 55.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1burst : with this verse do I cover that up ! 23. Gently as a mother embrace the son : I unite thee, (pot of) earth, with the earth ! Mayest thou, the hollow pot, not totter upon the altar, when thou art pressed by the tools of sacrifice and the ghee ! 24. May Agni who cooks thee protect thee on the east, Indra with the Maruts protect thee on the south! May Varu/za on the west support thee upon thy foun- dation, may Soma on the north hold thee together ! 25. Purified by the purifiers, the (waters) flow pure from the clouds, they reach to the spaces of heaven, and of the earth. They are alive, refresh the living, and are firmly rooted : may Agni heat them, after they have been poured into the vessel ! 26. From heaven they come, into the earth they penetrate ; from the earth they penetrate into the atmosphere. May they, now pure, yet purify them- selves further ; may they conduct us to the heavenly world ! 27. Whether ye are over-abundant or just suffi- cient, ye are surely clear, pure, and immortal : cook, ye waters, instructed by the husband and wife, obliging and helpful, the porridge ! 28. Counted drops penetrate into the earth, com- mensurate with the breaths of life and the plants. The uncounted golden (drops), that are poured into IX. PRAYERS AND IMPRECATIONS FOR BRAHMANS. 1 89 (the porridge), have, (themselves) pure, established complete purity. 29. The boiling waters rise and sputter, cast up foam and many bubbles. Unite, ye waters, with this grain, as a woman who beholds her husband in the proper season ! 30. Stir up (the grains) as they settle at the bottom : let them mingle their inmost parts with the waters ! The water here I have measured with cups ; measured was the grain, so as to be according to these regulations. 31. Hand over the sickle, with haste bring promptly (the grass for the barhis); without giving pain let them cut the plants at the joints ! They whose kingdom Soma rules, the plants, shall not harbour anger against us ! 32. Strew a new barhis for the porridge : pleasing to its heart, and lovely to its sight it shall be ! Upon it the gods together with the goddesses shall enter ; settle down to this (porridge) in proper order, and eat it ! 33. O (instrument of) wood, settle down upon the strewn barhis, in keeping with the divinities and the agnish/oma rites ! Well shaped, as if by a carpenter (Tvash/ar) with his axe, is thy form. Longing for this (porridge) the (gods) shall be seen about the vessel ! 34.
2strument of) wood, settle down upon the strewn barhis, in keeping with the divinities and the agnish/oma rites ! Well shaped, as if by a carpenter (Tvash/ar) with his axe, is thy form. Longing for this (porridge) the (gods) shall be seen about the vessel ! 34. In sixty autumns the treasurer (of the porridge) shall fetch it, by the cooked grain he shall obtain heaven ; the parents and the children shall live upon it. Bring thou this (man) to heaven, into the presence of Agni ! 35. (Thyself) a holder, (O pot), hold on to the foundation of the earth : thee, that art immoveable I go HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. the gods (alone) shall move ! Man and wife, alive, with living children, shall remove thee from the hearth of the fire ! 36. Thou hast conquered and reached all worlds ; as many as are our wishes, thou hast satisfied them. Dip ye in, stirring stick and spoon ! Place it (the porridge) upon a single dish ! 37. Lay (ghee) upon it, let it spread forth, anoint this dish with ghee ! As the lowing cow her young that craves the breast, ye gods shall greet with sounds of satisfaction this (porridge) ! 38. With ghee thou hast covered it, hast made this place (for the porridge) : may it, peerless, spread afar to heaven ! Upon it shall rest the mighty eagle ;- gods shall offer it to the divinities ! 39. Whatever the wife cooks aside from thee, (O husband), or the husband (cooks) unbeknown of thee, O wife, mix that together : to both of you it shall belong ; bring it together into a single place ! 40. As many of her children as dwell upon the earth, and the sons that have been begotten by him, all those ye shall call up to the dish : on shall come the young knowing their nest ! 41. The goodly streams, swelling with honey, mixed with ghee, the seats of ambrosia, all these does he obtain, ascends to heaven. In sixty autumns the treasurer (of the porridge) shall fetch it ! 42. The treasurer shall fetch this treasure: all outsiders round about shall not control it! The heaven-directed porridge, that has been presented and deposited by us, in three divisions has reached the three heavens. 43. May Agni burn the ungodly Rakshas ; the flesh-devouring Pisa^a shall have nothing here to IX. PRAYERS AND IMPRECATIONS FOR BRAHMANS. 191 partake of! We drive him away, hold him afar from us : the Adityas and Angiras shall stay near it ! 44. To the Adityas and the Angiras do I offer this (food of) honey, mixed with ghee.
3nothing here to IX. PRAYERS AND IMPRECATIONS FOR BRAHMANS. 191 partake of! We drive him away, hold him afar from us : the Adityas and Angiras shall stay near it ! 44. To the Adityas and the Angiras do I offer this (food of) honey, mixed with ghee. Do ye two, (man and wife), with clean hands, without having injured a Brahma^a, performing pious deeds, go to that heavenly world ! 45. I would obtain this highest part of it (the porridge), the place from which the highest lord permeates (the all). Pour butter upon it, anoint it with plentiful ghee : this here is our share, fit for the Angiras ! 46. For the sake of truth and holy strength do we make over this porridge as a hoarded treasure to the gods : it shall not be lost to us in gaming or in the assembly; do not let it go to any other person before me ! 47. I cook, and I give (to the Brahmans), and so, too, my wife, at my religious rite and practice. — With the birth of a son the world of children has arisen (for you) : do ye two hold on to a life that extends beyond (your years) ! 48. In that place exists no guilt, and no duplicity, not even if he goes conspiring with his friends. This full dish of ours has here been deposited : the cooked (porridge) shall come back again to him that cooks it ! 49. Kind deeds we shall perform for our friends : all that hate us shall go to darkness (hell) ! — As (fruitful) cow, and (strong) steer, they (man and wife) shall during every successive period of their lives drive away man-besetting death ! 50. The fires (all) know one another, that which lives in plants, and lives in the waters, and all the I92 HYMNS OF THE ATHARVA-VEDA. (light-) gods that glow upon the heaven. The gold (here) becomes the light of him that cooks (the porridge). 51. This (naked skin) among the hides is born upon man (alone), all other animals are not naked. Clothe yourselves, (ye Brahmans), in sheltering garments : (even) the face of the porridge is a home- spun garment ! 52. What falsehood thou shalt speak at play and in the assembly, or the falsehood that thou shalt speak through lust for gain — put on together, (O man and wife), this same garment, deposit upon it every blemish ! 53. Produce rain, go to the gods, let smoke arise from (thy) surface ; all-embracing, about to be covered with ghee, enter as a co-dweller this place ! 54. In many ways heaven assumes within itself a different form, according to circumstances. It (the heaven) has laid aside its black form, purifying itself to a bright (form) ; the red form do I sacrifice for thee into the fire. 55.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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