{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/wyv/wyvbk30.htm","path":"hin/wyv/wyvbk30.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/wyv/wyvbk30.htm","text":"The Texts of the White Yajurveda, tr. Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1899]\nOUR sacrifice, God Savitar! speed onward: speed to his share\n the sacrifice's patron.\n May the Celestial Gandharva, cleanser of thought and will,\n make clean our thoughts and wishes.\n The Lord of Speech sweeten the words we utter!\n 2 May we attain that excellent glory of Savitar the God:\n So may he stimulate our prayers.\n 3 Savitar, God, send far away all troubles and calamities,\n And send us only what is good.\n 4 We call on him distributer of wondrous bounty and of wealth,\n On Savitar who looks on men.\n 5 For Brahman (Priesthood) he binds a Brahman to the\n stake; for Kshatra (Royalty) a R\u00e2janya; for the Maruts\n a Vaisya; for Penance a S\u00fbdra; for Darkness a robber;\n for Hell a homicide or a man who has lost his consecrated\n fire; for Misfortune a eunuch; for Venality an Ayog\u00fb;\n for K\u00e2ma a harlot; for Excessive Noise a M\u00e2gadha;\n6 For Dance a stable-master; for Song a public dancer; for\n Duty one who attends court; for Pastime a timid man;\n for Sport a chatterer; for Laughter an artist; for Pleasure\n a woman-lover; for Desire a damsel's son; for Dexterity\n a car-builder; for Firmness a carpenter;\n 7 For Trouble a potter's son; for Device an artificer; for\n Beauty a jeweller; for Welfare a sower; for the Arrow-deity\n a maker of shafts; for Injury a bowyer; for Action\n a bowstring-maker; for Fate a rope-maker; for Death a\n hunter; for the Finisher a dog-leader;\n 8 For Rivers a fisherman; for Riksh\u00eek\u00e2s a Nish\u00e2da's son; for\n the Man-tiger a madman; for the Gandharvas and\n Apsarases a Vr\u00e2tya; for Motives one demented; for Serpents\n and Genii an untrustworthy man; for Dice a gambler;\n for Excitement a non-gambler; for Pis\u00e2chas a woman who\n splits cane; for Y\u00e2tudh\u00e2nas a woman who works in thorns;\n 9 For Rendezvous a lover; for Homestead a paramour; for\n Trouble an unmarried elder brother; for Nirriti a younger\n brother who has married before his elder; for Misfortune\n the husband of a younger sister whose elder sister has\n not been married; for Representation a woman who\n embroiders; for Agreement a woman who deals in\n love-charms; for Garrulity a by-sitter; for Colour an\n obstinate man; for Strength a yielding man;\n 10 For Interruptions a hunch-back; for Delight a dwarf,\n for Doors a blear-eyed man; for Sleep a blind man; for\n Unrighteousness a deaf man; for Purifying Medium a\n physician; for Insight an astrologer; for Craving for\n Knowledge an inquisitive man; for Desire of extra \n Knowledge an extra-inquisitive man; for Moral Law\n a question solver;\n 11 For Eye-diseases an elephant-keeper; for Speed a\n horse-keeper; for Nourishment a cowherd; for Manliness a\n shepherd; for Keenness a goatherd; for Refreshment a\n ploughman; for Sweet Beverage a preparer of Sur\u00e2; for\n Weal a house-guard; for Well-being a possessor of wealth;\n for Supervision a doorkeeper's attendant;\n12 For Light a wood-bringer; for Brightness a fire-kindler; for\n the Sun's Station a besprinkler; for Highest Heaven a\n high steward; for the World of Gods a carver; for the\n World of Men a distributer; for All-Worlds a pourer-out:\n for Poverty, Affliction a stirrer-up of strife; for Sacrifice\n a washerwoman; for Delight a female dyer;\n 13 For Assault a thievish-hearted man; for Homicide a slanderer;\n for Discrimination a door-keeper; for Inspection a\n door-keeper's attendant; for Strength a servant; for\n Plenty a running footman; for the Beloved a sweet speaker;\n for Safety the rider of a horse; for the World of\n Svarga a dealer-out of portions; for Highest Heaven a\n high steward;\n 14 For Passion an iron-smelter; for Anger a remover; for\n Yoking a yoker; for Pain an assailant; for Quiet an unyoker;\n for Up-hill and Down-hill one who stands on three legs;\n for Form a conceited man; for Virtue a female\n ointment-maker; for Nirriti a female scabbard-maker;\n for Yama a barren woman;\n 15 For Yama a mother of twins; for the Atharvans a woman\n who has miscarried; for the First Year a gad-about; for\n the Parivatsara one who has not borne a child; for the\n Id\u00e2vatsara one who exceeds; for the Idvatsara one who\n transgresses; for the Vatsara one who is worn out; for\n the Samvatsara one with grey hair; for the Ribhus a\n hide-dresser; for the S\u00e2dhyas a currier;\n 16 For Lakes a fisherman; for Standing Waters a fisher; for\n Tank-waters a Nish\u00e2da; for Reed-beds a fish-vender; for\n the Opposite Bank one who gropes for fish; for This Bank\n a fish-catcher; for Fords an \u00c2uda; for shallows a Main\u00e2la;\nfor Sounds a Bhilla; for Caverns a Kir\u00e2ta; for Mountain-heights\n a destructive savage; for Mountains a wild man;\n 17 For Abhorrence a Paulkasa; for Colour a goldsmith; for\n Balance a merchant; for Repentance a sluggard; for All\n Spirits a leper; for Prosperity a watchful man; for Failure\n a sleepy man; for Mischief a chatterer; for Misfortune\n a shameless man; for Undoing one who cuts up into small\n pieces;\n 18 For the Dice-king a gambler; for the die Krita one who\n contemplates his adversary's ill luck, for the Tret\u00e2 a\n gamble-manager; for the Dv\u00e2para a chief manager; for Askanda\n one who will not leave the gambling-hall; for Mrityu one\n who approaches cows; for Antaka a Cow-killer; for\n Hunger one who goes begging to a man who is cutting\n up a cow; for Misdeed a leader of the Charakas; for\n Misery a robber;\n 19 For Echo a reviler; for Noise a snarler; for End a very\n talkative man; for Endless a mute; for Sound a drummer;\n for Might a lute-player; for Cry a flute-blower; for\n Confused Tone a Conch-blower; for the Wood a\n wood-ranger; for Partly-wooded Land a forest fire guard;\n 20 For Pastime a harlot; for Laughter a jester; for Lust a\n woman with spotty skin; for Might these, the head-man\n of a village, an astrologer, and a watchman; a lute-player;\n a hand-clapper, a flutist, these for Dance; for Pleasure a\n musician;\n 21 For Fire a fat man; for Earth a cripple; for Wind a\n Ch\u00e2nd\u00e2la; for Mid-Air a pole-dancer; for Sky a bald-head;\n for the Sun a green-eyed man; for Stars a spotty man;\n for the Moon a leper; for Day a white yellow-eyed man;\n for Night a black man with yellow eyes.\n22 Now he ties up the eight following variform men: one too\n tall, one too short, one too stout, one too thin, one too\n white, one too black, one too bald, one too airy. These\n must be neither S\u00fbdras nor Br\u00e2hmans, and must be\n dedicated to Praj\u00e2pati.\n A minstrel, a harlot, a gambler, and a eunuch\u2014neither of\n S\u00fbdra nor Br\u00e2hman caste\u2014are to be dedicated to Praj\u00e2pati.","title":"White Yajur Veda: Book XXX","type":"page"}