The Yajur Veda (Taittiriya Sanhita) by Arthur Berriedale Keith

Author:Arthur Berriedale Keith [Keith, Arthur Berriedale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Global Grey ebooks
Published: 2018-07-20T23:00:00+00:00

Prapathaka V. The Offerings To Rudra

iv. 5. 1.

a Homage to thy wrath, O Rudra,

To thine arrow homage also;

Homage to thy bow,

And homage to thine arms.

b With thy most kindly arrow,

And kindly bow,

With thy kindly missile,

Be gentle to us, O Rudra.

c That body of thine, O Rudra, which is kindly,

Not dread, with auspicious look,

With that body, most potent to heal,

O haunter of the mountains, do thou look on us.

d The arrow which, O haunter of mountains,

In thy hand [1] thou bearest to shoot,

That make thou kindly, O guardian of mountains;

Harm not the world of men.

e With kindly utterance thee

We address, O liver on the mountains,

That all our folk

Be free from sickness and of good cheer.

f The advocate hath spoken in advocacy,

The first divine leech,

Confounding all the serpents

And all sorceries.

g The dusky, the ruddy,

The brown, the auspicious,

And the Rudras which in thousands

Lie around this (earth) in the quarters [2],

Their wrath do we deprecate.

h He who creepeth away,

Blue-necked and ruddy,

Him the cowherds have seen,

Have seen the bearers of water

And him all creatures;

May be, seen, be gentle unto us.

i Homage to the blue-necked,

Thousand-eyed one, the bountiful

And to those that are his warriors

I have paid my homage.

k Unfasten from the two notches

Of thy bow the bowstring,

And cast thou down

The arrows in thy hand [3].

1 Unstringing thy bow,

Do thou of a thousand eyes and a hundred quivers,

Destroying the points of thine arrows,

Be gentle and kindly to us.

m Unstrung is the bow of him of the braided hair

And arrowless his quiver;

His arrows have departed,

Empty is his quiver.

n O most bountiful one, the missile

That is in thy hand, thy bow,

With it on all sides do thou guard us,

Free from sickness.

o Homage to thy weapon,

Unstrung, dread;

And homage to thy two hands,

To thy bow.

p May the missile from thy bow

Avoid us on every side,

And do thou lay far from us

This quiver that is thine.

iv. 5. 2.

a Homage to the golden-armed leader of hosts, and to the lord of the quarters homage!

b Homage to the trees with green tresses, to the lord of cattle homage!

c Homage to the one who is yellowish-red like young grass, to the radiant, to the lord of paths homage!

d Homage to the brown one, to the piercer, to the lord of food homage!

e Homage to the green-haired, wearer of the cord, to the lord of prosperity homage!

f Homage to the dart of Bhava, to the lord of the moving world homage!

g Homage to Rudra, with bent bow, to the lord of fields homage!

h Homage to the minstrel, the inviolate, to the lord of the woods homage!

i Homage [1] to the ruddy one, the ruler, to the lord of woods homage!

k Homage to the minister, the trader, to the lord of thickets homage!

l Homage to the extender of the world, the offspring of the maker of room, to the lord of plants homage!

m Homage to the loud calling, the screaming, to the lord of footmen homage!

n Homage to the wholly covered, to the running, to the lord of warriors homage!

iv. 5. 3.

a Homage to the strong, the

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