Sukta 25

Mantra 1

पृश्निपर्णी। शं नो देवी पृश्निपर्ण्यशं निरृत्या अकः । उग्रा हि कण्वजम्भनी तामभक्षि सहस्वतीम्

Bring weal to us, O Goddess Pṛśniparṇī; from Nirṛti do thou make for us unharm. For fierce indeed is she, the Kaṇva-crusher: that mighty one have I partaken.

Mantra 2

सहमानेयं प्रथमा पृश्निपर्ण्यऽजायत । तयाहं दुर्णाम्नां शिरो वृश्चामि शकुनेरिव

This conquering Pṛśniparṇī was born the first of all; with her I hew off the head of the ill-named, as one (cuts off) a bird’s.

Mantra 3

अरायमसृक्पावानं यश्च स्फातिं जिहीर्षति । गर्भादं कण्वं नाशय पृश्निपर्णि सहस्व च

The foe, the blood-purifier, and whoso would filch away our thriving— Destroy the womb-destroyer, the Kaṇva: O Pṛśniparṇī, prevail thou also.

Mantra 4

गिरिमेनाँ आ वेशय कण्वान् जीवितयोपनान्। तांस्त्वं देवि पृश्निपर्ण्यग्निरिवानुदहन्निहि

Bring in the hill-men; make them enter under the Kaṇvas—those whose very footing is life. Those, O Goddess Pṛśniparṇī, do thou, like Agni, burning after them, consume: go forth!

Mantra 5

पराच एनान् प्र णुद कण्वान् जीवितयोपनान्। तमांसि यत्र गच्छन्ति तत् क्रव्यादो अजीगमम्

Drive ye these forth and far away—these Kánvas, life-besetters, near-approachers. Unto the darkness where they wend, thither have I dispatched the flesh-devourer.