{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/wyv/wyvbk04.htm","path":"hin/wyv/wyvbk04.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/wyv/wyvbk04.htm","text":"The Texts of the White Yajurveda, tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1899]\nWE have reached this earth's place of sacrificing, the place\n wherein all Deities delighted.\n Crossing by Rik, by S\u00e2man, and by Yajus, may we rejoice\n in food and growth of riches.\n Gracious to me be these Celestial Waters!\n Protect me, Plant. O Knife, forbear to harm him.\n 2 The Mother Floods shall make us bright and shining, cleansers\n of holy oil, with oil shall cleanse us.\n For, Goddesses, they bear off all defilement. I rise up\n from them purified and brightened.\n The form of Consecration and of Fervour art thou. I put\n thee on, the kind and blissful, maintaining an agreeable\n appearance.\n 3 The Great Ones\u2019 milk art thou. Giver of splendour art\n thou: bestow on me the gift of splendour.\n Pupil art thou of Vritra's eye. The giver of eyes art thou.\n Give me the gift of vision.\n 4 Purify me the Lord of Thought! Purify me the Lord of\n Speech! Purify me God Savitar with perfect strainer, with\n the beams of S\u00fbrya!\nOf thee, Lord of the Strainer! who art by the strainer\n purified,\n With what desire I purify myself, may I accomplish it.\n 5 We come to you for precious wealth, O Gods, as sacrifice\n proceeds.\n O Gods, we call on you to give blessings that wait on sacrifice.\n 6 Sv\u00e2h\u00e2! from mind the sacrifice. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2! from spacious\n firmament.\n Sv\u00e2h\u00e2! from Dyaus and Prithiv\u00ee. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2! from Wind I\n seize. Sv\u00e2h\u00e2!\n 7 To Resolution, Motive, Agni, Sv\u00e2h\u00e2! All-hail to Wisdom,\n and to Mind, and Agni!\n All-hail to Consecration, Fervour, Agni! Hail to Sarasvat\u00ee,\n P\u00fbshan, and Agni!\n Ye vast, divine, all-beneficial Waters, ye Heaven and Earth\n and spacious Air between them,\n Let us adore Brihaspati with oblation. All-hail!\n 8 May every mortal man elect the friendship of the guiding\n God.\n Each one solicits him for wealth: let him seek fame to prosper\n him.\n 9 Rik's, S\u00e2man's counterparts are ye. I touch you. Protect\n me till the sacrifice be ended.\n Thou art a place of refuge. Give me refuge. Obeisance\n unto thee! Forbear to harm me.\n 10 Strength of Angirases art thou. Wool-soft, bestow thou\n strength on me.\n Thou art the garment-knot of Soma. Vishnu's refuge art\n thou, the Sacrificer's refuge.\nThou art the womb of Indra. Make the crops produce\n abundant grain.\n Stand up erect, O Tree. Protect me from harm until this\n sacrifice be ended.\n 11 Prepare ye vow-food. Agni is the Brahman, Agni is sacrifice,\n the tree is holy.\n For aid we meditate divine Intelligence, most merciful,\n Free-giver, bringing worship May it guide us gently, as\n we would.\n Favour us Gods, mind-horn, endowed with mind and intellectual\n might! All-hail to them! May they be our protectors.\n 12 Waters that we have drunk! become refreshing, become\n auspicious draughts within our belly.\n Free from all sin and malady and sickness, may they be\n pleasant to our taste, divine Ones, immortal, strengtheners\n of eternal Order.\n 13 This is thy sacrificial form.\n Not offspring, waters I discharge. Freeing from sin and\n consecrate by Sv\u00e2h\u00e2 enter ye the earth. Be thou united\n with the earth.\n 14 O Agni, watch thou well. May we take joy in most refreshing\n sleep.\n Protect us with unceasing care. From slumber waken us\n again.\n15 Thought hath returned to me, and life; my breath and\n soul have come again.\n Our bodies' guard, unscathed, Vaisv\u00e2nara Agni preserve us\n from misfortune and dishonour.\n 16 Thou, Agni, art the guardian God of sacred vows among\n mankind, thou meet for praise at holy rites.\n Grant this much, Soma! bring yet more. God Savitar who\n giveth wealth hath given treasure unto us.\n 17 This is thy form, O Bright One, this thy lustre. Combine\n with this thy form and go to splendour.\n Impetuous art thou, upheld by mind, and Vishnu loveth\n thee.\n 18 Moved by thine impulse who hast true impulsion, may I\n obtain a prop to stay my body.\n Pure art thou, glistering art thou, immortal, dear to all the\n Gods.\n 19 Thought art thou, mind, intelligence, the Guerdon, royal,\n worshipful, Aditi with a double head. Succeed for us in\n going forth, succeed for us in thy return. May Mitra\n bind thee by the foot. May P\u00fbshan guard thy pathways\n for Indra whose eye is over all.\n20 Thy mother give thee leave to go, thy father, thine own\n brother, and thy friend of the same herd with thee!\n Go thou, O Goddess, to the God. To Soma go for Indra's\n sake.\n May Rudra turn thee back. Return safely with Soma as\n thy friend.\n 21 Thou art a Vasv\u00ee, thou art Aditi, thou art an \u00c2dity\u00e2, thou\n art a Rudr\u00e2, thou art a Chandr\u00e2.\n Brihaspati vouchsafe thee rest and comfort! Rudra with\n Vasus looks on thee with favour.\n 22 On Aditi's head I sprinkle thee, on the earth's place of\n sacrifice.\n Footstep of Id\u00e2 art thou, filled with fatness. Hail!\n Rejoice in us. Thy kinship is in us. In thee are riches.\n Mine be riches! Let us not be deprived of abundant\n riches. Thine, thine are riches.\n 23 I with my thought have commerced with divine far-sighted\n Dakshin\u00e2.\n Steal not my life. I will not thine. May I, O Goddess, in\n thy sight find for myself a hero son.\n 24 Tell Soma this for me: This is thy share allied with G\u00e2yatr\u00ee.\n For me say this to Soma: This is thine allotted Trishtup\n share.\n Tell Soma this for me: This is thy share allied with Jagat\u00ee.\n Tell Soma this for me: Win thou sole lordship of the metres\u2019\n names.\n Ours art thou: pure thy juice for draught. Let separators\n pick thee out.\n25 I sing my song of praise to him, Savitar, God between the\n Bowls, strong with the wisdom of the wise, of true impulsion,\n wealth-giver, the well-beloved thoughtful Sage.\n To him at whose impulsion shone aloft in heaven the splendid\n light.\n Most wise, the Golden-handed hath measured the sky with\n skilled design.\n For living creatures, thee. Let living creatures breathe\n after thee. Breathe after living creatures.\n 26 Thee who art pure, with what is pure I purchase, the bright\n with bright, immortal with immortal.\n The Sacrificer keep thy cow. Let thy gold pieces be with us.\n Fervour's form art thou, and Praj\u00e2pati's nature. With the\n most noble animal art thou purchased. May I increase\n with thousandfold abundance.\n 27 As friend, the giver of good friends, approach us!\n Take thou thy seat on the right thigh of Indra, yearning on\n yearning, pleasing on the pleasing.\n Angh\u00e2ri, Sv\u00e2na, Bhr\u00e2ja, and Bambh\u00e2ri, O Hasta, and Suhasta\n and Kris\u00e2nu,\n These are your prices for the Soma purchase. Keep them\n securely, let them never fail you.\n 28 Keep me, O Agni, from unrighteous conduct: make me a\n sharer in the path of goodness.\nI, following Immortals, have arisen with longer life, with a\n good life before me.\n 29 Now have we entered on the path that leads to bliss without\n a foe,\n The path whereon a man escapes all enemies and gathers\n wealth.\n 30 The skin of Aditi art thou. Sit on the lap of Aditi.\n The Bull hath propped the sky and air's mid-region, the\n compass of the broad earth hath he measured.\n He, King Supreme, approached all living creatures. Truly\n all these are Varuna's ordinances.\n 31 Over the woods the air hath he extended, put milk in kine\n and vigorous speed in horses,\n Set intellect in hearts and fire in houses, S\u00fbrya in heaven\n and Soma on the mountain.\n 32 Ascend the eye of S\u00fbrya, mount the pupil set in Agni's eye\n Where, radiant through the Wise One, thou speedest along\n with dappled steeds.\n 33 Approach, ye oxen, fit to bear the yoke; be yoked without\n a tear.\n Slaying no man, urging the Brahman forward, go happily\n to the Sacrificer's dwelling.\n 34 Lord of the World, thou art my gracious helper: move forward\n on thy way to all the stations.\n Let not opponents, let not robbers find thee, let not malignant\n wolves await thy coming.\n Fly thou away having become a falcon. Go to the dwelling\n of the Sacrificer. That is the special place for us to rest in.\n35 Do homage unto Varuna's and Mitra's eye: offer this solemn\n worship to the Mighty God,\n Who seeth far away, the Ensign born of Gods. Sing praises\n unto S\u00fbrya, to the Son of Dyaus.\n 36 Thou art a prop for Varuna to rest on. Ye are the pins that\n strengthen Varuna's pillar.\n Thou art the lawful seat where Varuna sitteth. Sit on the\n lawful seat where Varuna sitteth.\n 37 Such of thy glories as with poured oblations men honour,\n may they all invest our worship.\n Wealth-giver, furtherer with troops of heroes, sparing the\n brave, come, Soma, to our houses.","title":"White Yajur Veda: Book IV","type":"page"}