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या ओषधीः पूर्वा जाता देवेभ्यस्त्रियुगं पुरा |
मनैनु बभ्रूणामहं शतं धामानि सप्त च
English:- . HERBS that sprang up in time of old, three ages earlier than the Gods,-
Of these, whose hue is brown, will I declare the hundred powers and seven.

शतं वो अम्ब धामानि सहस्रमुत वो रुहः |
अधाशतक्रत्वो यूयमिमं मे अगदं कर्त
English:- Ye, Mothers, have a hundred homes, yea, and a thousand are your growths.
Do ye who have a thousand powers free this my patient from disease.

ओषधीः परति मोदध्वं पुष्पवतीः परसूवरीः |
अश्वािव सजित्वरीर्वीरुधः पारयिष्ण्वः
English:- Be glad and joyful in the Plants, both blossoming and bearing fruit,
Plants that will lead us to success like mares who conquer in the race.

ओषधीरिति मातरस्तद वो देवीरुप बरुवे |
सनेयमश्वंगां वास आत्मानं तव पूरुष
English:- Plants, by this name I speak to you, Mothers, to you the Goddesses:
Steed, cow, and garment may I win, win back thy very self, O man.

अश्वत्थे वो निषदनं पर्णे वो वसतिष कर्ता |
गोभाज इत्किलासथ यत सनवथ पूरुषम
English:- The Holy Fig tree is your home, your mansion is the Parna tree:
Winners of cattle shali ye be if ye regain for me this man.

यत्रौषधीः समग्मत राजानः समिताविव |
विप्रः सौच्यते भिषग रक्षोहामीवचातनः
English:- He who hath store of Herbs at hand like Kings amid a crowd of men,-
Physician is that sage's name, fiend-slayer, chaser of disease.

अश्वावतीं सोमावतीमूर्जयन्तीमुदोजसम |
आवित्सिसर्वा ओषधीरस्मा अरिष्टतातये
English:- Herbs rich in Soma, rich in steeds, in nourishments, in strengthening power,-
All these have I provided here, that this man may be whole again.

उच्छुष्मा ओषधीनां गावो गोष्ठादिवेरते |
धनंसनिष्यन्तीनामात्मानं तव पूरुष
English:- The healing virtues of the Plants stream forth like cattle from the stall,-
Plants that shall win me store of wealth, and save thy vital breath, O man.

इष्क्र्तिर्नाम वो माताथो यूयं सथ निष्क्र्तीः |
सीराःपतत्र्णी सथन यदामयति निष कर्थ
English:- Reliever is your mother's name, and hence Restorers are ye called.
Rivers are ye with wings that fly: keep far whatever brings disease.

अति विश्वाः परिष्ठा सतेन इव वरजमक्रमुः |
ओषधीःप्राचुच्यवुर्यत किं च तन्वो रपः
English:- Over all fences have they passed, as steals a thief into the fold.
The Plants have driven from the frame whatever malady was there.

यदिमा वाजयन्नहमोषधीर्हस्त आदधे |
आत्मायक्ष्मस्य नश्यति पुरा जीवग्र्भो यथा
English:- When, bringing back the vanished strength, I hold these herbs within my hand,
The spirit of disease departs ere he can seize upon the life.

यस्यौषधीः परसर्पथाङगम-अञ्गं परुष-परुः |
ततोयक्ष्मं वि बाधध्व उग्रो मध्यमशीरिव
English:- He through whose frame, O Plants, ye creep member by member, joint by joint,-
From him ye drive away disease like some strong arbiter of strife.

साकं यक्ष्म पर पत चाषेण किकिदीविना |
साकंवातस्य धराज्या साकं नश्य निहाकया
English:- Fly, Spirit of Disease, begone, with the blue jay and kingfisher.
Fly with the wind's impetuousspeed, vanish together with the storm.

अन्या वो अन्यामवत्वन्यान्यस्या उपावत |
ताः सर्वाःसंविदाना इदं मे परावता वचः
English:- Help every one the other, lend assistance each of you to each,
All of you be accordant, give furtherance to this speech of mine.

याः फलिनीर्या अफला अपुष्पा याश्च पुष्पिणीः |
बर्हस्पतिप्रसूतास्ता नो मुञ्चन्त्वंहसः
English:- Let fruitful Plants, and fruitless, those that blossom, and the blossomless,
Urged onward by Bṛhaspati, release us from our pain and grief;

मुञ्चन्तु मा शपथ्यादथो वरुण्यादुत |
अथो यमस्यपड्बीशात सर्वस्माद देवकिल्बिषात
English:- Release me from the curse's plague and woe that comes from Varuṇa;
Free me from Yama's fetter, from sin and offence against the Gods.

अवपतन्तीरवदन दिव ओषधयस परि |
यं जीवमश्नवामहै न स रिष्याति पूरुषः
English:- What time, descending from the sky, the Plants flew earthward, thus they spake:
No evil shall befall the man whom while he liveth we pervade,

या ओषधीः सोमराज्ञीर्बह्वीः शतविचक्षणाः |
तासां तवमस्युत्तमारं कामाय शं हर्दे
English:- Of all the many Plants whose King is, Soma, Plants of hundred forms,
Thou art the Plant most excellent, prompt to the wish, sweet to the heart.

या ओषधीः सोमराज्ञीर्विष्ठिताः पर्थिवीमनु |
बर्हस्पतिप्रसूता अस्यै सं दत्त वीर्यम
English:- O all ye various Herbs whose King is Soma, that o'erspread the earth,
Urged onward by Bṛhaspati, combine your virtue in this Plant.

मा वो रिषत खनिता यस्मै चाहं खनामि वः |
दविपच्चतुष्पदस्माकं सर्वमस्त्वनातुरम
English:- Unharmed be he who digs you up, unharmed the man for whom I dig:
And let no malady attack biped or quadruped of ours.

याश्चेदमुपश्र्ण्वन्ति याश्च दूरं परागताः |
सर्वाः संगत्य वीरुधो.अस्यै सं दत्त वीर्यम
English:- All Plants that hear this speech, and those that have departed far away,
Come all assembled and confer your healing power upon this Herb.

ओषधयः सं वदन्ते सोमेन सह राज्ञा |
यस्मै कर्णोतिब्राह्मणस्तं राजन पारयामसि
English:- With Soma as their Sovran Lord the Plants hold colloquy and say:
O King, we save from death the man whose cure a Brahman undertakes.

तवमुत्तमास्योषधे तव वर्क्षा उपस्तयः |
उपस्तिरस्तुसो.अस्माकं यो अस्मानभिदासति
English:- Most excellent of all art thou, O Plant thy vassals are the trees.
Let him be subject to our power, the man who seeks to injure us.
 
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