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For Expiation of Sins
From sin we have committed knowingly or unknowingly, deliver us from that, O gods one and all!
From the sin, I committed awake or asleep sin-inclined, may both past and future set me free, as if from a wooden post to which I was bound!
May I be released from sin as if from a pillar, or from dirt and filth after a bath. May all the gods clear me from sin as ghee is pure after passing through a sieve!
Asking Forgiveness for Debts
The food that I eat, the debt that I owe and not returned, and my offerings to Yama which ever sustains me, O Agni, may I be freed from all these debts, you who know how to unfasten all the fetters.
Being just here before you, we give this gift back, we restore it, O Agni, the grain that I have eaten having borrowed it, so that I may be released from guilt of that.
Free from guilt of debt in this world, free from guilt of debt in the higher world, free from guilt in the third world may we be, and also in the world of gods, and in those of the fathers, on all our paths may we remain free form the guilt of debt!
A Prayer for Attaining Heaven
If we have harmed space, earth and sky, or if we have ever offended the father or mother, may this Agni of the house, absolve us from that and conduct us safely to the world of well-doing.
May the Earth our mother, Aditi the boundless, our kin, and space our brother, preserve us from damnation. May our father Heaven grant us prosperity from the world of the Father. May I attain the world of my kindered ones, and having reached here, may never lose the heaven!
In that divine world where men of good-deeds and pious acts revel, their bodies made free from disease, free from lameness, or any other defect, their limbs made whole, there in the heaven may we behold our parents and our children!
A Prayer for Auspicious Day
When the stars appointed Shakadhuma their king, they bestowed upon him auspicious day saying, "This shall be his dominion".
May we have auspicious day at noon, auspicious day at eve, auspicious day in the early morn, and also auspicious day in the night!
For day and night, from the stars, from the sun and moon, do thou, O king Shakadhuma, make auspicious day for us!
To thee, O Shakadhuma, sovereign of the stars, who made auspicious day for us at eve, in the night and by day, let there be ever homage!
For Gaining a Man's Love
Down from the head unto thy feet I implant passionate longing. Ye gods send forth the passionate love, may you man burn for me!
O Anumati, give assent to this plan, fit it well, O Akuti! Ye gods send forth the passionate love, may you man burn for me!
Even if thou hast run away three leagues, five leagues, the distance covered by a horse in a day, from there thou shall come back, thou shalt be the father of our sons!
A Prayer of Power Through a Girdle
The god who has bound this girdle round us, who fastened us together and joined into me, the god at whose divine direction we move, may he head us to the other shore and may he liberate us!
O thou daughter of Faith, born out of fervour, sister of the seers who fashion the world, grant us, O Girdle, powers of thought and wisdom, also grant us fervour and Indra's manly vigour!
For Luxuriant Hair
O herb, thou art born divine, on the divine mother Earth, We dig thee up here, O mitani, so that thou mayest quicken the growth of the hair!
Strengthen thou, the old ones, generate the new and render them luxuriant that has come forth!
The hair of thine which falls down, and that which is broken root and all, upon it do I sprinkle here the all-healing balm of the herb!
For Promotion of the Growth of Hair
This herb which seer Jamdagni dug up to promote the increase of his daughter's hair, that one Vitahavya has brought from Asita's house.
They (hair) had to be measured with a rein, and were measured out after with stretched arms. May the black hair grow as do the reeds, on thy head!
Make thou the roots firm, draw out the ends, stretch out the middle, O plant. May the black hair grow as do the reeds, on thy head!
For Rendering a Man Impotent
O herb, thou art reputed as one of the best plants; change this man for me impotent who wears his hair dressed!
Do thou turn him impotent, him who wears his hair dressed, likewise change him into one that wears a hood! Then may Indra crush both his testicles with the two press-stones.
Impotent one, I have made thee impotent. O eunuch I have made thee eunuch, O weakling, into a weakling I have made thee. A hood we set down upon his head!
The two tubes, created by the gods, in which reside man's virility, them I break with a club.
As women split reeds with a stone for a mattress, so do I split thy member.
For Bountiful Barley Harvest
Spring up, become abundant, grow thick with thy own strength! Burst all vessels fashioned to contain you! May lightning from the heavens not smite you!
O divine barley, spring up tall as the sky in response to our call and be inexhaustible like the ocean!
May those who attend you be inexhaustible, inexhaustible their barns who offer you in sacrifice, also those who consume you shall be inexhaustible!
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