Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
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Avaunt, hence away, you Pisachas, inimical to gods, rebellious! This is the place for those who effuse the Soma-juice.

May Savitar grant a happy spot on this earth for your mortal remains. May radiant Sun prove helpful in this!

Let Vayu purify you, let Savitar purify you with fire’s glitter and sun’s lustre. Let the rays release you!

God established you in this ephemeral world and made your abode here ever changing like a leaf, therefore, worship the supreme God alone and serve the cows!

May Savitar lay down your remains on the lap of mother Earth. O Earth, be gracious to this mortal man.

Here I lay you down, O man, in Prajapati, near this lovely place full of water. May his light drive away sin from us.

Go hence, O Death, follow your special pathway apart from that which gods are wont to talk. To you who hears and sees, I say it. Touch not our children, harm not our heroes!

Pleasant be to you the wind and sun, and pleasant be to you the bricks. Pleasant be to you the terrestrial fires, let them not put you to grief.

May the regions, the waters and the seas be most propitious. Auspicious to you be the atmosphere. May all Quarters prosper well for you!

On flows the stony river hold each other fast to cross it, keep yourselves up and reach the other bank. Let us here abandon that which is useless for us. May we attain the excellent foods.

O god, drive away sin, drive away evil, impurity and sorcery. O Apamarga, drive the evil dreams away from us.

May the Waters and the medicinal herbs be friendly to us and unfriendly to him who hates us and whom we hate!

We touch for our weal the ox, the son of Surabhi. May he bearer of gods and our deliverer as Indra is to gods.

May we ever looking upon the loftiest light, above the darkness, effulgent, divine, the most excellent light, the Sun attain the gods.

Here I raise this wall for the living. Let none of these, none other cross this limit. May you following this law for a hundred lengthened autumns and may you keep Death beneath this mountain.

O Agni, you purify our life. Give us abundant strength and food and drive away distress and misfortune!

O Agni, balmed in ghee, with butter on your face, live long, strengthened with sacrifice.

All these men have led about the cow, have led Agni round. They have offered oblation to high gods. Then who will attack them with success?

I drive away the flesh-devouring Agni, sinful let them go to Yama’s abode. Here, may this other jatavedas, foreknowing, carry our oblation to the gods.

O Jatavedas, carry the portion of sacrifice to the Fathers, where, far away, you know them established. May streamd of sap flow there for them. May their desires, so truthful, be fulfilled. Svaha!

O Earth, be you without thorn and pleasant as our resting place. Grant us spacious room full of comfort and happiness. May your fire burn down all our sins.

O Agni, you have been kindled by this man, let him be again born from you. For Heaven this man I name! All-hail!