62. Thy laps, O earth, free from ailment, free
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from disease, shall be produced for us! May we
attentively, through our long lives, be bearers of
bali-offerings to thee!
63. O mother earth, kindly set me down upon
a well-founded place! With (father) heaven co-
operating, O thou wise one, do thou place me into
happiness and prosperity !
XIII, 1. Prayer for sovereign power addressed to the god Rohita and his female Rohivzi.
1. Rise up, O steed, that art within the waters,
enter this kingdom, rich in liberal gifts! Rohita
(the red sun) who has begotten this all, shall keep
thee well-supported for sovereignty !
2. The steed that is within the waters has risen
up: ascend upon the clans that are sprung from
thee! Furnishing soma, the waters, plants, and cows,
cause thou four-footed and two-footed creatures to
enter here!
3. Do ye, strong Maruts, children of Pvzsni (the
cloud), allied with Indra, crush the enemies! Rohita
shall hear you, that give abundant gifts, the thrice
seven Maruts, who take delight in sweet (nourish-
ment) !
4. Rohita has climbed the heights, he has
ascended them, he, the embryo of women, (has
ascended) the womb of births. Closely united with
these women they found out the six broad (direc-
tions); spying out a road he has brought hither
sovereignty.
5. Hither to thee Rohita has brought sovereignty ;
he has dispersed the enemies: freedom from danger
has resulted for thee. To thee heaven and earth
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together with the revati and sakvari-stanzas shall yield gifts at will!
6. Rohita produced heaven and earth; there
Paramesh//in (the lord on high) extended the thread
(of the sacrifice). There Aga Ekapada (the one-
footed goat, the sun) did fix himself; he made firm
the heavens and earth with his strength.
7. Rohita made firm heaven and earth, by him
the (heavenly) light was established, by him the
firmament. By him the atmosphere and the spaces
were measured out, through him the gods obtained
immortality.
8. Rohita did ponder the multiform (universe)
while preparing (his) climbings and advances. Having
ascended the heaven with great might, he shall
anoint thy royalty with milk and ghee!
g. All thy climbings, advances, and all thy ascents
with which thou, (Rohita, the sun), fillest the
heavens and the atmosphere, having strengthened
thyself with their brahma and payas (spiritual and
physical essence) do thou keep awake (do thou
watch over) among the people in the kingdom of
the (earthly) Rohita (the king)!
10. The peoples that have originated from thy
tapas (heat, or creative fervour), have followed here
the calf, the gayatri. They shall enter thee with
kindly spirit; the calf Rohita with its mother shall
come on!
11. High on the firmament Rohita has stood,
a youth, a sage, begetting all forms. As Agni he
shines with piercing light, in the third space he did
assume lovely (forms).
12, A bull with a thousand horns, Gatavedas (fire), endowed with sacrifices of ghee, carrying
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soma upon his back, rich in heroes, he shall, when
implored, not abandon me, nor may I abandon thee:
abundance in cattle and abundance in heroes procure
for me!
13. Rohita is the generator of the sacrifice, and
its mouth; to Rohita I offer oblations with voice,
ear, and mind. To Rohita the gods resort with
glad mind: he shall cause me to rise through eleva-
tion derived from the assembly !
14. Rohita arranged a sacrifice for Visvakarman ;
from it these brilliant qualities have come to me.
Let me announce thy origin over the extent of the
world! 3
15. Upon thee have ascended the brzhati and the
pankti (metres), upon thee the kakubh with splendour,
O GAtavedas. Upon thee the vasha¢-call, whose
syllables make an ushziha, has ascended, upon thee
Rohita with his seed has ascended.
16. This one clothes himself in the womb of the
earth, this one clothes himself in heaven, and in
the atmosphere. This one at the station of the
brown (sun) did attain unto the worlds of light.
17. O Vakaspati (lord of speech), the earth shall
be pleasant to us, pleasant our dwelling, agreeable
our couches! Right here life's breath shall be to
our friend; thee, O Paramesh/Zin, Agni shall
envelop in life and lustre!
18. O Vakaspati, the five seasons that we have,
which have come about as the creation of Visva-
karman, right here (they and) life’s breath shall be
to our friend; thee, O Paramesh/Ain, Rohita shall
envelop in life and lustre!
19. O Vakaspati, good cheer and spirit, cattle in our stable, children in our wombs beget thou! Right
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here life’s breath shall be to our friend; thee, O Paramesh/¢hin, I envelop in life and lustre.
20. God Savitar and Agni shall envelop thee,
Mitra and Varuza surround thee with lustre! Tread-
ing down all powers of grudge come thou hither:
thou hast made this kingdom rich in liberal gifts.
21. Thou, O Rohita, whom the brindled cow,
harnessed at the side, carries, goest with brilliance,
causing the waters to flow.
22. Devoted to Rohita is Rohizi his mistress,
with beautiful colour(complexion), great, and lustrous:
through her may we conquer booty of every descrip-
tion, through her win every battle!
23. This seat, Rohizi, belongs to Rohita; yonder
is the path on which the brindled (female) goes!
Her the Gandharvas and the Kasyapas lead forth,
her the sages guard with diligence.
24. The radiant bay steeds of the sun, the im-
mortal, ever draw the delightful chariot. Rohita,
the drinker of ghee, the shining god, did enter the
variegated heavens.
25. Rohita, the sharp-horned bull, who surpasses
Agni and surpasses Stirya, who props up the earth
and the sky, out of him the gods frame the creations.
26. Rohita ascended the heaven from the great flood; Rohita has climbed all heights.
27. Create (the cow) that is rich in milk, drips
with ghee: she is the milch-cow of the gods that
does not refuse! Indra shall drink the Soma, there
shall be secure possession; Agni shall sing praises:
the enemies do thou drive out!
28. Agni kindled, spreads his flames, fortified by
ghee, sprinkled with ghee. Victorious, all-conquering
Agni shall slay them that are my rivals!
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29. He shall slay them, shall burn the enemy that
battles against us! With the flesh-devouring Agni
do we burn our rivals.
30. Smite them down, O Indra, with the thunder-
bolt, with thy (strong) arm! Then have I over-
powered my rivals with Agni’s brilliant strengths.
31. O Agni, subject our rivals to us; confuse,
O Brzhaspati, the kinsman that is puffed up! O
Indra and Agni, O Mitra and Varuza, subjected they
shall be, unable to vent their wrath against us!
32. Do thou, god Sirya (the sun), when thou
risest, beat down my rivals, beat them down with
a stone: they shall go to the nethermost darkness!
33. The calf of Virag, the bull of prayers, carry-
ing the bright (soma) upon his back, has ascended
the atmosphere. A song accompanied by ghee they
sing to the calf; himself brahma (spiritual exalta-
tion) they swell him with their brahma (prayer).
34. Ascend the heavens, ascend the earth;
sovereignty ascend thou, and possessions ascend
thou! Offspring ascend thou, and immortality ascend
thou, unite thy body with Rohita!
35. The gods that hold sovereignty, who go
about the sun, with these allied, Rohita, kindly
disposed, shall bestow sovereignty upon thee!
36. The sacrifices purified by prayer lead thee
forth; the bay steeds that travel upon the road carry
thee: thou shinest across the swelling ocean.
37. In Rohita who conquers wealth, conquers
cattle, and conquers booty, heaven and earth are
fixed. Of thee that hast a thousand and seven
births, let me announce the origin over the extent
of the world!
38. Glorious thou goest to the intermediate direc-
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tions and the directions (of space), glorious (in the
sight) of animals and the tribes of men, glorious in
the lap of the earth, of Aditi: may I like Savitar
be lovely !
39. Being yonder thou knowest (what takes place)
here; being here thou beholdest these things. Here
(men) behold the inspired sun that shines upon the
sky.
40. A god thou praisest the gods, thou movest
within the flood. They kindle (him), a universal
fire; him the highest sages know.
41. Below the superior (region), above the inferior
(region) here, the cow has arisen supporting (her)
calf by the foot. Whither is she turned; to which
half (of the universe), forsooth, has she gone away;
where, forsooth, does she beget? Verily not in this
herd !
42. One-footed, two-footed, four-footed is she;
eight-footed, nine-footed became she, the thousand-
syllabled (consisting of thousand elements) pankti
(quinary stanza) of the universe: the oceans from
her flow forth upon (the world).
43. Ascending the heaven, immortal, receive
kindly my song! The sacrifices purified by prayer
lead thee forth; the bay steeds that travel upon the
road carry thee.
44. That do I know of thee, O immortal, where
thy march 1s upon the sky, where thy habitation is
in the highest heaven.
45. Strya (the sun) surveys the sky, Sdrya the
earth, Siirya the waters. Sirya is the single eye of
being: he has ascended the great heavens.
46. The broad (directions) where the fagots that fence in (the fire), the earth turned itself into a fire-
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altar. There Rohita laid on for himself these two fires, cold and heat.
47. Laying on cold and heat, using the moun-
tains as sacrificial posts, the two fires of Rohita who
knows the (heavenly) light, into which (the fires)
rain (flowed) as ghee, carried out the sacrifice.
48. The fire of Rohita who knows the (heavenly)
light is kindled by prayer. From it heat, from it
cold, from it the sacrifice was produced.
49. The two fires swelling through prayer, in-
creased through prayer, sacrificed into with prayer ;
the two fires of Rohita who knows the (heavenly)
light, kindled through prayer, carried out the
sacrifice.
50. One is deposited in truth, the other is kindled
in the waters. The two fires of Rohita who knows
the (heavenly) light, kindled through prayer, carried
out the sacrifice.
51. The fire which the wind brightens up, and
that which Indra and Brahmazaspati (brighten up),
the two fires of Rohita who knows the (heavenly)
light, kindled through prayer, carried out the
sacrifice.
52. Having fashioned the earth into an altar,
having made the heavens (his) sacrificial reward,
then having made heat into fire, Rohita created all
that has breath through rain (serving) as ghee.
53. Rain fashioned itself into ghee, heat into fire,
the earth into an altar. Then Agni by (his) songs
fashioned the high mountains.
54. Having fashioned by means of songs the high
(mountains), Rohita spake to the earth: In thee all
shall be born, what is and what shall be.
55. Ihe sacrifice first, (and then) what is and
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what shall be was born. From that this all was
born, and whatever here appears, brought hither by
the sage Rohita. }
56. He who kicks a cow with his foot, and he
who micturates towards the sun—of thee do I tear
out the root; thou shalt henceforth not cast a
shadow!
57. Thou that passest across me, casting thy
shadow against me, between me and the fire—of
thee do I tear out the root; thou shalt henceforth
not cast a shadow!
58. He, O god Siarya, that to-day passes between
thee and me, upon him our evil dream, our foulness,
and our misfortunes do we wipe off.
59. May we not miss our way, may we not, O
Indra, miss the sacrifice of him that presses the
soma; may not the powers of grudge intercept us!
60. The (guiding) thread stretched out among the
gods, that accomplishes the sacrifice, that, by pour-
ing oblations, may we attain !
XI, 5. Glorification of the sun, or the primeval principle, as a Brahman disciple.
1. The BrahmaZarin (Brahmanical disciple) moves
inciting both hemispheres of the world; in him the
gods are harmonised. He holds the heavens and
the earth, he fills the teacher with creative fervour
(tapas).
2. The fathers, the divine folk, and all the gods
severally follow the BrahmaZéarin; the Gandharvas
did go after him, six thousand three hundred and
thirty-three. He fills all the gods with creative fervour.
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3. When the teacher receives the Brahma/arin
as a disciple, he places him as a foetus inside (of
his body). He carries him for three nights in his
belly: when he is born the gods gather about to
see him.
4. This earth is (his first) piece of firewood, the
heaven the second, and the atmosphere also he fills
with (the third) piece of firewood. The Brahma-
Aarin fills the worlds with his firewood, his girdle,
his asceticism, and his creative fervour.
5. Prior to the brahma (spiritual exaltation) the
Brahmafarin was born; clothed in heat, by creative
fervour he arose. From him sprung the brahmazam
(Brahmanic life) and the highest brahma, and all the
gods together with immortality (amvzta).
6. The Brahmafarin advances, kindled by the
firewood, clothed in the skin of the black antelope,
consecrated, with long beard. Within the day he
passes from the eastern to the northern sea; gather-
ing together the worlds he repeatedly shapes them.
7. The Brahmaarin, begetting the brahma, the
waters, the world, Pragapati Paramesh//in (he that
stands in the highest place), and Viradg, having
become an embryo in the womb of immortality,
having, forsooth, become Indra, pierced the Asuras.
8. The teacher fashioned these two hemispheres
of the world, the broad and the deep, earth and
heaven. These the Brahmafdérin guards with his
creative fervour (tapas): in him the gods are har-
monised.
g. This broad earth and the heaven the Brahma-
Rarin first brought hither as alms. Having made
these into two sticks of firewood he reveres them;
upon them all beings have been founded.