Sukta 7

Mantra 1

तेनैनं विध्याम्यभूत्यैनं विध्यामि निर्भूत्यैनं विध्यामि पराभूत्यैनं विध्यामि ग्राह्यैनं विध्यामि तमसैनं विध्यामि

With that I pierce him: with Un-being I pierce him; with De-being I pierce him; with Overthrow I pierce him; with Seizure I pierce him; with Darkness I pierce him.

Mantra 2

देवानामेनं घोरैः क्रूरैः प्रैषैरभिप्रेष्यामि

Him I drive forth, by the Gods’ dread and cruel commissions, I dispatch him away.

Mantra 3

वैश्वानरस्यैनं दंष्ट्रयोरपि दधामि

In Vaiśvānara’s fangs, even there, I set him down.

Mantra 4

एवानेवाव सा गरत्

Thus—yet not thus—be the help: may it swallow him down.

Mantra 5

यो३स्मान् द्वेष्टि तमात्मा द्वेष्टु यं वयं द्विष्मः स आत्मानं द्वेष्टु

Who hateth us—let his own self hate him; whom we do hate—let he himself hate his own self.

Mantra 6

निर्द्विषन्तं दिवो निः पृथिव्या निरन्तरिक्षाद् भजाम

The hater—forth from heaven, forth from earth, forth from the mid-air—let us sever him away.

Mantra 7

सुयामंश्चाक्षुष

Auspicious in course, and salutary for the eye.

Mantra 8

इदमहमामुष्यायणे३मुष्याः पुत्रे दुष्वप्न्यं मृजे

This—on the son of such an one, of such a mother—do I cleanse away: the evil-dreaming.

Mantra 9

यददोअदो अभ्यगच्छन् यद् दोषा यत् पूर्वां रात्रिम्

Whatsoever, now here now there, hath come upon him—what in the night, what in the former night—

Mantra 10

यज्जाग्रद् यत् सुप्तो यद् दिवा यन्नक्तम्

What (cleaves) to him waking, what sleeping; what by day, what by night—

Mantra 11

यदहरहरभिगच्छामि तस्मादेनमव दये

What, day after day, I meet withal—therefrom do I beat it down and drive it off from him.

Mantra 12

तं जहि तेन मन्दस्व तस्य पृष्टीरपि शृणीहि

Smite thou that one therewith; be thou appeased and gladdened: yea, crush thou down the very backs and stays of him.

Mantra 13

स मा जीवीत् तं प्राणो जहातु

Let him not live: let breath, the life-force, abandon that man.